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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Okay but like... how are they gonna count out my change?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Cashless payment, or those machine that will count the money, sorta like vending machine.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

In Japan, you order from a vending machine, pay the machine, get a slip of paper, and hand it to the cook.

I think that system is fantastic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I also love the amount vending machines Japan has. I'd love to have machine for tea or late night ramen around every corner.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not what you want to hear, but it sounds like you just want a kettle

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago

Haha. If those two were the only things offered in vending machines in japan, then yes. But they don't.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

We have this in the US to. Even McDonalds does them!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

For different reasons though. In japan it's for small restaurants which don't employ many people or don't have a lot of space or both. For McDonald's it's for pinching a dollar more for their empire.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

In japan it’s for small restaurants which don’t employ many people or don’t have a lot of space or both.

So about saving money, which is the same reason

For McDonald’s it’s for pinching a dollar more for their empire.

McDonald's is franchised

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Ya I hate that. I have walked out of a McDonalds and went to the drive thru just so a person would take my order.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

In the Netherlands you have self checkout with cash. No cashier involved.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Ohh

So that’s how it works - video was actually quite interesting.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Those are awesome for the 7.2 minutes in a row they work without some intervention.

Source: McDonald's drive-[through].