[Alupis]

> then businesses like fast food chains might just replace many them with machines

Like McDonald's is currently piloting in France where you order your food from a touch-screen kiosk instead of a cashier.[1]

[1] http://www.cnet.com/news/mcdonalds-hires-7000-touch-screen-c...

[fragmede]

Wawa in Pennsylvania has touch-screen sandwich ordering machines, and has since a pilot program in 2001. It briefly gained national attention when a edited clip surfaced of Mitt Romney being "amazed" by the machines.