Panera Bread is testing AI-powered bots at the drive-thru. Panera Bread Panera Bread is known as a restaurant pioneer when it comes to technology. The chain is working with tech startup OpenCity to test voice bot ordering at the drive-thru. OpenCity, which also works with Popeyes, says AI-powered bots can improve accuracy and speed. In […]
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Tom Hanks bought everyone lunch at an In-N-Out Burger drive-thru in California for Christmas
ABC 7 Tom Hanks entered into the Christmas spirit by buying customers lunch at an In-N-Out Burger in California on Saturday. Hanks was photographed by fans at the Fontana branch of the chain. The local Oak Park Elementary School posted on their Twitter that Hanks “bought lunch for everyone.” ABC 7 said Hanks paid for […]
Is this the healthiest drive-thru in the UK? Weight Watchers takes on TAKEAWAYS
Weight Watchers has launched a healthy Drive Thru in the UK to prove eating healthily doesn’t have to mean restricting yourself. Research has revealed Brits think about food once every minute in January, with feeling guilty about over indulging during the festive period and pressure to lose weight cited as the main reasons for having […]
‘I never touched it’: Serena Williams tried to deposit her first million-dollar check in the bank drive-thru
Scott Barbour/GettyImages Serena Williams may be one of the highest-paid athletes, according to Forbes — and the only woman to crack the top 100 — but she says she’s never been motivated by the money. “I’ve actually never played for money — I just thought you would go out there and hold a trophy,” Williams […]
Queen Elizabeth II is franchise owner of THIS UK McDonald’s Drive-Thru
Back in 2008, one of the 91-year-old royal’s acquisitions was a retail park in Slough, which includes a drive-through McDonalds. Bath Road Retail Park was bought in June that year by the Crown Estate. The real estate business administers the monarch’s property portfolio, and the retail park was purchased for a whopping £92 million. The […]
Don't Drink and Drive-Thru: Your Server May Be a Snitch
Forget plainclothes policing or fancy surveillance technology. The latest way cops are nabbing high and drunk drivers in the Canadian province of Ontario is by turning to an unlikely partner: pimply-faced fast-food workers stuck at restaurant drive-through windows. In Barrie, police recently responded to Burger King employees by arresting a 34-year-old who had passed out […]
‘AmazonFresh Pickup’ offers drive-thru grocery shopping
Amazon’s checkout-less grab-and-go store may have hit a snag, but the company isn’t letting that get in the way of other grocery-focused initiatives. The Seattle-based giant on Tuesday teased a new AmazonFresh Pickup service where Prime members will be able to order their groceries online before turning up to collect them – all bagged and […]