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   AI is taking over your favorite fast food restaurants as Taco Bell, Pizza    
   Hut, and KFC team up with Nvidia - 500 locations by the end of 2025   
      
   Date:   
   Thu, 20 Mar 2025 11:33:38 +0000   
      
   Description:   
   Your local Taco Bell, KFC, or Pizza Hut might have AI-powered drive-thrus by   
   the end of 2025 as Yum! announces partnership with Nvidia.   
      
   FULL STORY   
      
   Last year, Yum! Brands, the company behind Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and KFC,   
   introduced AI to some drive-thru locations . Now the company plans to roll    
   out AI ordering at 500 different restaurants later this year.    
      
   If you've been to one of the more than 100 AI-powered restaurants across 13   
   U.S states already, you may have already ordered a Crunchwrap Supreme by   
   speaking to AI. For the rest of us, who've yet to experience an AI server,   
   your closest Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, KFC, or Habit Burger might offer the   
   service soon.    
      
   In a press release , Yum! Brands announced the new AI partnership with Nvidia   
   that will see artificial intelligence implemented in some of the company's   
   61,000 restaurants across the globe. In fact, the company is "Nvidia's first   
   AI restaurant partner."    
      
   "Yum! and Nvidia are planning to transform the future of dining by unlocking   
   scalable AI applications quickly, reliably and affordably." But what does    
   that mean exactly?    
      
   Well, restaurants chosen for this AI rollout will receive voice-automated   
   order-taking AI agents which the company says will "advance drive-thru and   
   call center operations with conversational AI."    
      
   Elsewhere, the operations side of the restaurants will be improved by AI,    
   with Yum! stating AI will help with analytics to ensure better-performing   
   locations.   
      
   Now, I love fast food just as much as the next person. And, in fact, I hate   
   drive-thrus because I often get a sense of dread as I roll down my window to   
   speak to someone over an intercom.    
      
   Will replacing drive-thru employees with AI make the fast food experience   
   better for me? I guess that depends if you think human comprehension is    
   better than artificial intelligence's.    
      
   Personally, I'm all for more efficient fast food restaurants as long as the   
   use of AI doesn't replace human workers. If this partnership with Nvidia   
   allows Yum! to lay off thousands of employees then I fear for the mass   
   restaurant exodus we'll experience over the next few years.    
      
   As always, use AI to compliment and facilitate your employee's jobs and    
   you're onto a winner. Use AI to replace humans, and that's the dangerous   
   territory that gives reason to the AI-skeptics out there.    
      
   One things for sure, if you hate AI, you might have just unlocked an epic   
   fitness hack. Because now there's a chance you never want to order at your   
   local KFC again.   
      
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   Link to news story:   
   https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/ai-is-taking-over-   
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