In what might be one of the most easily predictable AI missteps to date, Taco Bell's recent move to replace human employees with AI to help manage drive-thru orders has gone spectacularly wrong. From ...

Artificial intelligence is a massive help to everyday processes and work, but over at fast food chain Taco Bell, it is not as effective compared to humans. Taco Bell's management recently admitted ...

Last year, Taco Bell made a simple bet that Alexa-like voice assistants could handle the drive-thru window. It didn’t consider whether people could handle dealing with AI. According to the Wall Street ...

That distant ringing? It’s the sound of the Taco Bell death knell, tolling for the restaurant chain’s shambolic AI-powered drive-thrus. We exaggerate, but only a little. The much-maligned tech ...

Fast food companies have been experimenting with integrating artificial intelligence into their restaurants, from Flippy the burger-flipping robot at White Castle to dynamic pricing at Wendy's. One ...

Every company is trying to find ways to leverage AI even if they’re not necessarily a technology company, especially as NVIDIA continues to post monster quarterly results. However, companies are ...

The chain rolled out a voice AI system to more than 500 U.S. drive-throughs beginning in 2023 to cut errors and speed service. But customer videos showing the bot looping prompts or accepting prank ...

Fast-food drive-thrus may not be getting much faster, but they’re getting smarter, and friendlier staff might still matter more than artificial intelligence, a new report found. The 25th Annual ...

Few quick-service brands have been as steady as Taco Bell over the past few calendars. And that’s putting it lightly. One of Yum! Brands’ “twin growth pillars,” as the company refers to them (the ...