What do you think the future of fast food will be? Do you think it will remain as is or will new innovations come to switch up the meta?
I believe in the future fast food will take on an entirely new form. People will be in self driving electric mini cars and will select a button to go to the McDolan feeding station on their way home. A gentle female voice powered by AI will greet them and ask for their order, to which they will reply with a series of beast like shrieking noises similar to Morlocks from the movie adaptation of The Time Machine (2002).
At the first window payment will automatically be deducted from their account with face recognition software scanning their eyes. Then a robotic mechanism will come out and put a feeding tube into their mouth. The first round will be a crispy oily grain sludge that is flavored to be bring about umami sensations on the tongue, similar to how doritos and KFC used to taste. The patron will belch and receive a second tube that will wash it down with a corn syrupy water reminiscent of mountain dew. And finally a third tube for desert, which is a more sweeter and creamier grain sludge mixed with artificial vanilla and HFCS, intended to replicate ice cream.
On their drive home they will begin to shit themselves. Their vehicle's seat will open up a compartment for them to fill with diarrhea which will later be used as fertilizer to grow more corn. When they get home their seat will detache from the vehicle and morph in a power scooter that will bring them in front of their television. They will watch AI generated comedy shows where all people are in interracial relationships and every joke is about sex.
Fat people will go broke keeping up with their addiction
Most people will stop eating there
Fast food joints will continue to make their slop more addictive to squeeze every last penny out of fatsos.
Exactly what's happening now
Fin
I'm from the future. All of this becomes true
Only advancement I can see in the next few years is drones delivering the food.
Most of the process is now automated, i.e app,contactless payment etc.
Drones and automated delivery vehicles will never happen. But not for the reasons you are thinking of like technology. No it's a much simpler reason. I can't say it but if you think about for just a little while I'm sure you'll come to the same conclusion.
always the damn mexicans/indians
People don't want to tip robots so they can earn a living wage, and the robots will pick up the non-tipping orders last, and the whole system will collapse.
>eating that slop ever
Whatever your take is, it sucks.
it's going to be interesting to see how much more they can shrink everything. mcdonalds is now less than half what it was in the 90's, they shrunk the chips at KFC recently, pizzas are tiny and shit.
Taco bell already went full demolition man. Here's your crunchwrap supreme
Inflation will hit fast food hard, because it's reduced the price gap between fast food and dine in restaurants, while widening the gulf in quality.
For me fast food is waiting 30 minutes in a drive thru for something that is double the price, half the portion size, so heavily processed it barely resembles food, your order is fucked up, and the sandwich is a sloppy mess.
Fast food out
Street food in
The only way places like McDonald's are going to survive in 1st world countries (they'll still do fine in Europe and Asia) is by changing their business model. I think we're going to see something like McDonald's teaming up with Amazon where if you have a Prime account you can get free 20 minute delivery. Nobody actually wants to drive to a physical store anymore when the experience is so bad and all the value is gone. They have to make it as convenient and easy as possible for people who would rather just stay at home and buy everything online (i.e. 99% of people).
It's amazing just got expensive and slow fast food has gotten. Now it's competing against local restaurants that do takeout apps. I got sick of paying the insane fees though so I just use the apps to do a pickup order and go and get it myself. It's literally faster, cheaper, and better than fast food at that point.
The prices at all the major fast food chains are so high now you can go into some local sit down restaurants and get a full meal for less than a combo meal costs.
Exactly. They simply can't compete with local places as long as they still expect people to actually leave the house. You can order anything and everything online now, so why the fuck would anyone spend $12 at McDonald's when you can just as easily order from the new Burmese or Korean wing place around the corner for basically the same price and much better food and portions? It just doesn't make any sense, and people know it.
the kitchen-on-top Taco Bells
this is the real answer i think, atleast for America and other car-centric regions.
That's a cool design. Reminds me of the set-up I saw at McD's in Taiwan
>first floor is for to-go orders but contains the kitchen
>second floor is for dine-in which comes up on a conveyor belt
Such a feat is only possible in civilized parts of countries
It's in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota.
>kitchen-on-top Taco Bells
Yep, big corporations are topping the average consoomer.
I don't think they will improve much since they rely on lazy fat people driving cars. It seems quite expensive to build a new building with a drive thru window, and so only the big goyslop companies invest in it.
The future will be an idiocracy.
where'd you get a picture of my gamer chair hehe
>more sweeter
Lay off the corn syrup
Eventually most high profile fast food (like McDs) will fully automate all of the process inside - so robot fry cooks, AI ordering, assembly belt shit. Then the eat in portion will be phased out, and it will be take out only. You will drive up in your automated car, perhaps order before hand via app like some do now, and a little window opens up and you get your food, then drive off.
Of course, fast food in urban areas will have ceased to exist as riots and crime waves have destroyed all businesses and venues, the logical conclusion of shit going down in CA cities, NYC, and places like Seattle. These cities will get walls put up around them by the NG and Army corps of engineers to keep all the gangs and crime contained. Chicago will be full fascist by that time, and private ownership of anything will be abolished by the city. Crime of course will still be at high levels, it's just the city will eat it in taxes and redistribute what little wealth there is like socialism. Robocop will be a thing there by this time too, because actual cops will have all quit by then. UAVs, armored tankbots and robocops will be the new order of police, and they won't do shit because they will have anti-racist programming that prevents them from prosecuting criminals.
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more shrinkflation, lower quality, higher price until they bust.
they are trying to phase out cars entirely, so fast food will die.
In France, the way McDonald's is going is pretty clear. Since they choosed to buy only local ingredients (they were highly targeted by french farmers protests before that) prices has gone up to a point it's pretty much the same as a small independant restaurant. So now they bet everything on service. They remodelled many of their infrastructures, they removed all queues and have service at tables now, they have hard dinerware now (UE legislation), extended "McCafe" deserts like macarons, etc... They also hope people will just be too lazy to try to find a regular restaurant.
In the futur I think they will double down on that like putting tables behind walls or even doors for more intimate dinning, having more "luxuary" burgers with even higher prices to look high class, they will also make a big show of cleaning everything after each client because they want to convince people they are safer than your "shaddy" local restaurant.
Me I'm hoping for hookers as waitress.
honestly I think most of the low cost or low quality shit will die off. People are switching to home cooking in a big way now. Mcdonalds and most major chains with shitty food will die off in a big way. Mcdonalds will shrink by at least 40-60% in the next 30 years. Especially if we have fucking robot cooks worth a damn that you can have at home.
This sounds like a Zappa monologue
people will purchase soda water and HFCS packages, plus other raw ingredients needed to make a fast food meal. a robot will make them their McDonald's meal for a price, plus gratuity