• LordCrom@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    11
    arrow-down
    4
    ·
    5 months ago

    I personally HATE those places where you walk inside and you need to use the stupid touchscreen. I’ve asked someone to take my order, they say no. So I get in the car and go to the drive through where you still get a person taking your order.

      • figjam@midwest.social
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        8
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        5 months ago

        Not the OP but for me it takes like 4 times longer to use the tuch screen. Find the button for what i want. Do you want to super-sized? Do you want fries with that? How are you paying today? Blah blah blah whereas with the counter its me saying one sentence and them pushing 2 buttons.

        • bc93@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          5 months ago

          That makes sense to me - if you had the choice between using a touch screen to place an order immediately or waiting in line behind 4 other people though, would you use the touchscreen then? Again, just curious, I’m not trying to make out that you’re ordering McDonalds wrong ;P

          • LordCrom@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            5 months ago

            If there are 4 people in line for a cashier, take away the cashier and you still have 4 people in line waiting for the kiosk… And it will take longer because ordering from the kiosk is a slow process.

            • bc93@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              5 months ago

              There’s usually like 8+ self-checkout machines though, and like one cashier

          • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            5 months ago

            Ooof not sure why you got downvoted.

            I’m starting to think people who hate ordering from a touchscreen really see talking to a cashier as fulfilling social needs.

        • Nindelofocho@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          5 months ago

          Its because those touch screens have clunky UI and are slow if they made it simple and straightforward instead of a question for every page it would be as fast if not faster than a person ordering at a register. Most PoS systems are touch screen nowadays so literally all your doing instead of putting in the options in yourself is telling someone else what to put in. They also do it hundreds of times an hour so they are way faster that someone whos only used a kiosk a few times

        • suction@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          arrow-down
          4
          ·
          edit-2
          5 months ago

          Maybe stand a foot further apart from the screen? That way you’ll be able to see the button better.

          What you hate about it are the constant upsell shenanigans, not the touchscreen per se. I dislike those, too, but I reckon the human staff are also trying to sell more than you want?

      • suction@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        arrow-down
        5
        ·
        5 months ago

        He’s looking to chat up some young ladies before he has to go back home to the old ball’n’chain…