Hopefully Flippy can take the fries out on time. And also keep 'em coming. Nothing worse than they tell you to pull forward and wait an extra 5 mins because they didn't have enough fries
Thoughts on this. At first, it’ll be rough. Each location has different traffic levels that can vastly fluctuate through the year. Say ski resort McDs installs an army of Flippys to run the store during the off season, base code can keep up because traffic is that of a small rural town. Winter shows up and suddenly the production has to be cranked up 100x but the algorithm is sitting there continuously saying “There won’t be another car after this” so fries and such aren’t at the ready.
Fast forward a couple years and the system works like a well rehearsed ballet while the former employees that voted for $15/hr scream on the sidewalk about how it’s still Trump’s fault.
The drive through queue is monitored by in-road sensors. I would imagine McD's also takes in area trafffic level data, which will correlate with demand.
Demand modelling is quite advanced in general in logistics, and throughput at the window is paramount.
The only time when we has issues is multiple school buses coming without much warning. That was in the 90s, before most people had cell phones. Now there should be little excuse - drivers could call ahead and no indoor seating now anyway.
There were even automatic fry hopper things back then. Pour bag in top and supposedly evenly distributed to baskets. Sucked to clean and faster to manually split the bag by pouring approximately 1/4 in as basket.
Hopefully Flippy can take the fries out on time. And also keep 'em coming. Nothing worse than they tell you to pull forward and wait an extra 5 mins because they didn't have enough fries
Thoughts on this. At first, it’ll be rough. Each location has different traffic levels that can vastly fluctuate through the year. Say ski resort McDs installs an army of Flippys to run the store during the off season, base code can keep up because traffic is that of a small rural town. Winter shows up and suddenly the production has to be cranked up 100x but the algorithm is sitting there continuously saying “There won’t be another car after this” so fries and such aren’t at the ready.
Fast forward a couple years and the system works like a well rehearsed ballet while the former employees that voted for $15/hr scream on the sidewalk about how it’s still Trump’s fault.
The drive through queue is monitored by in-road sensors. I would imagine McD's also takes in area trafffic level data, which will correlate with demand.
Demand modelling is quite advanced in general in logistics, and throughput at the window is paramount.
The only time when we has issues is multiple school buses coming without much warning. That was in the 90s, before most people had cell phones. Now there should be little excuse - drivers could call ahead and no indoor seating now anyway.
There were even automatic fry hopper things back then. Pour bag in top and supposedly evenly distributed to baskets. Sucked to clean and faster to manually split the bag by pouring approximately 1/4 in as basket.