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What is the role of AI in fast food employee training?
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In concerning and exciting news, which I feel like is the main reason we bring on tech expert Carmi Levy for its Time for Technology time every week, we've got AI headsets monitoring everything fast food employee workers do. Carmi, welcome to the show. Good to be with you, David. Thanks for having me. And for the record, it's human carmy, not AI carmy. I mean, I don't know. You could be faking this video and faking your voice, but probably not. Probably not. Look, I think drive-thru and fast food employees, I worry for their jobs in the next five to 10 years. Already they're replaced with touchscreen kiosks. If you go to a McDonald's here in New York, not all of them, but many of them have like touchscreen ordering things.
So there's less employees to begin with taking your order. It's mostly just people in the kitchen. I see the kitchen being replaced by, you know, physical robots making the items. I find the ordering process might be an AI agent. I'm not saying McDonald's is going to do this, but who knows what the next 15 years in fast food will look like. But right now, if we go to Burger King in Canada, voice assistant coaches are in their ears now during their job. This seems dystopian, Carmi. Oh, it is. And of course, the name, they gave it a friendly name. It's called Patty AI. So, you know, Patty. That is cute. Lovely, lovely inside joke, Restaurant Brands International. Well played. So they're going to be rolling out this app over the course of the rest of the year to all of their Canadian restaurants.
Basically what it is, it's a voice assistant, so essentially a voice-based chatbot that plays in the employee's headset. So any employee who would be in the restaurant who would be wearing a headset will have access to this. And basically what it'll do is it'll track them as they go through the day, it'll listen in on their conversations, it'll make suggestions, you know, how to be more attentive, how to be more efficient, how to be friendlier.
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It'll remind them to smile, among other things. It'll also provide guidance on how you make a food order or how do you upsell them. You know, do you want fries with that? So basically, it's designed to improve efficiency within the restaurant. I mean, all these things we've heard before. We heard them when McDonald's introduced AI into their drive-thrus a few years back, and that lasted about six months before they canceled it because it was getting all the orders wrong. So Hopefully the technology technology is a little bit better now. My concern is that this is a it's AI and it isn't just trying to improve efficiency. It's also collecting information on how employees work. And so you want to talk about mass surveillance state in your place of employment.
I think Burger King is about to become ground zero for that. And it's something I'd be watching for if I were an employee. Not exactly the kind of thing you want to be wearing on your head all day. I got to be careful because Burger King, I'm sure, has deep pockets. So I'll just throw the word allegedly in there, as I often do. I imagine the future of drive-thru and ordering will be AI chatbots. They need a wealth of data to train on to get these bots perfect. You are being monitored as you do your job, potentially, not definitely, but potentially, to train the models properly. that are then going to replace you. What am I saying? All these conversations are going to be recorded, archived, and then future AI ordering systems could train on these live conversations.
That's a scary thought. I don't know that it's true, but that's a scary thought. Oh, and I think that's inevitable. And I think that's an easy assumption to make, especially because, and this is technology, by the way, that comes to us from OpenAI. So they are providing the chatbot platform to RBI for their Burger King restaurants. And so I think it would be silly to think that that wouldn't be the case. This is a training opportunity for them to collect very specific data from a very specific use case, a very specific situation in restaurant service provision.
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Chapters
8 chapters
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What is the role of AI in fast food employee training?
0:05–2:02
2
How is misinformation impacting the perception of the Iran conflict?
2:02–4:42
3
What are the dangers of AI-generated recipes?
4:42–6:52
4
How is Instagram addressing mental health concerns for teens?
6:52–8:56
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What unique features does the MWC 2026 phone have?
8:56–11:10
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How does AI contribute to the spread of misinformation?
11:10–14:28
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What measures can parents take to protect their children online?
14:28–18:04
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What lessons can we learn about verifying online information?
18:04–19:04
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