Kirk Tanner, the new CEO and president of Wendy’s, shared with analysts his various plans to increase company profits, including investing in digital menu boards that will have the capacity to display dynamic pricing that fluctuates throughout the day by 2025. Here's what customers need to know.
  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    28·
    1 year ago

    The other totally bizarre part of this is:

    Tanner stated, “Beginning as early as 2025, we will begin testing more enhanced features like dynamic pricing and daypart offerings along with AI-enabled menu changes and suggestive selling.”

    I realize AI is just a corporate buzzword now, but I would love to hear him try to explain what the fuck that means.

    • CluckN@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 year ago

      Person typically orders chicken sandwich and frosty together in the Wendy’s app.

      All knowing AI uses 300 million volts to conclude that comboing those together in the app may result in a sale

      AI is truly the future.

      • ctkatz@lemmy.ml
        2·
        1 year ago

        joke’s on them. unless I had a hankering for a non-meal item before I started ordering, I’m not getting it. and almost always I don’t have a hankering.