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Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’
(www.theverge.com)
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this post was submitted on 26 Feb 2026
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No one asked for this
The capitalists running everything did
It's the C-suite. They're so corporatized they can't differentiate between an over-the-top professional smile and somebody being genuinely helpful.
Sam Altman did.
BK probably tried to implement AI to take orders, and well you saw how well it worked at Taco Bell. This is probably the minimum return on their "investment"