Is McDonald's the best-positioned restaurant chain for robots — and is it too early?
clemnt · x · 2026-09-18
clemnt argues McDonald's is the best-positioned restaurant chain to adopt robots thanks to its highly standardized processes and scale, but questions whether it's still too early. The quoted tweet about a congressman buying MCD stock is tangential to the robotics point.
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