But are the AI issues cheaper than the corporate infrastructure around hiring and paying employees and losing the occasional customer? If AI is more profitable, they don’t care. The only thing that’s mattered for decades now is what the bottom line says, no matter the cost.

I'm surprised they're not hiring people in third world countries to take the orders since it's through a microphone.

Or just making people order through their phones and use the drive through as a pick up point.

Employee make line go down. AI make line go up.