• figjam@midwest.social
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      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.

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        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

        • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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          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.

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          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.

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            5 months ago

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

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        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

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        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?

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      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…