'This is the future and I hate it': Donut shop employee insists the store's only customer should order at self-serve kiosk

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    '...Just as I opened my mouth to order... she interrupts to say, "You can order at the touchscreen"
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    Walked into an empty D■..... Donuts and got told to order at the screen
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    I never go to Dunkin Donuts but we were treating our kid after some shopping. We walked in an there's someone at the counter literally doing nothing. We look at the donuts, decide what we're having and just as I opened my mouth to order and she interrupts to say "you can order at the touchscreen". So I had to
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    turn around, and spend time scrolling through their menu to find the donuts we wanted ("donuts" was not the first menu option either, great job ux designers), then skip through all the various questions before
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    being able to pay. It added another 5 minutes to our purchase. Then we had to wait a minute whilst the employer assembled our order. I guess this is the future and I hate it.
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    unSure_of_stuf This has happened to me so many times. Literally every single place that has those "order kiosks." I was so annoyed that one time it happened that I just dead eyed the girl behind the counter and said, "I can't read."
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    I like to pay cash. Especially for something that is less than $10. So now I am forced to stand at a kiosk and order and then stand at the counter to pay. And when they have those machines, they will NOT acknowledge you when you're at the counter. It's like they avoid eye contact at all costs
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    inenviable This may be an unpopular take, but I prefer ordering at a kiosk. It's easier to make sure the order is exactly what I want: no clarifying questions, no misunderstandin g, no other confusion. I don't have to ask what's in/on anything because the ingredients are right there in the customization menu. I'm also a little antisocial, though (I'll wait
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    Competitive_Bat498 6 Just walk out and go somewhere else. 257 durkbot OP. Reply Yeah probably, it was the first time going to Dunkin Donuts in years, and likely the last time
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    Medium-Comfortable Can they even place an order in their system at the counter? 54 Uncleniles. This is apparently the automation of fast food jobs that people have been Reply talking about for years.
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    Making the customers place the orders and making the payment themselves. It means less face time for the employees, less handling money, fewer chances to mess up an order. It means the job can be done by less
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    experienced employees, underage employees that wouldn't be trusted with money.
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    IHate2Choose UserNa me don't forget to tip the machine
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    O Normal-Basis9743. Oh I had that in McDonald's in South Queensferry and I explained that I only had cash and the girl said it doesn't matter because you still Order at the self service and then cancel the order to create a prompt to pay cash which then prints out a ticket and then come back to the till hand over the ticket for them to authorise and
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    then pay. I walked out and have never been back to McDonald's since that was about 2 years ago. I agree that this seems to be the future and I also don't like it but I'm starting to think I have no choice because I've stopped going to a lot of places that treat you like that and I'm running out of places to go.
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    15 minutes for self checkout at the store, with a full cart, rather than go to an open register with a person).
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    pigeyejackson66 Last time I had to order at a kiosk they still made it wrong. No tomato isn't that hard.
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    Resident-Variation21 "You can order at the touchscreen" Turn around and walk out
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    sincitysadist. Taco Bell did this to me while one guy told the other he was going on break. Then an elderly couple walked in as I walked out, and I watched the employee through the window having to show the couple how to use the touchscreen to order. There is no customer service anymore.

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