{"id":227275,"date":"2026-06-06T13:54:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T17:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/06\/mcdonalds-ai-drive-thru-test-archiq-system-could-change-ordering\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T14:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T18:10:09","slug":"mcdonalds-ai-drive-thru-test-archiq-system-could-change-ordering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/06\/mcdonalds-ai-drive-thru-test-archiq-system-could-change-ordering\/","title":{"rendered":"McDonald\u2019s AI drive-thru test: ArchIQ System could change ordering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/news\/2026\/06\/major-fast-food-chain-tests-ai-ordering-at-drive-thru-locations-across-us.html\">McDonald\u2019s AI drive-thru test: ArchIQ System could change ordering<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/news\/2026\/06\/major-fast-food-chain-tests-ai-ordering-at-drive-thru-locations-across-us.html\">https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/news\/2026\/06\/major-fast-food-chain-tests-ai-ordering-at-drive-thru-locations-across-us.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-06 13:54:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cleveland.com\">www.cleveland.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>McDonald\u2019s is piloting an AI system called ArchIQ to take customer orders at drive-thrus using voice recognition.<\/li>\n<li>The voice-based AI platform aims to improve drive-thru efficiency without requiring a worker at the speaker.<\/li>\n<li>The initiative aligns with McDonald\u2019s \u201cMcDonald\u2019s &gt; NEXT\u201d strategy focused on growth, productivity, and technological advancements.<\/li>\n<li>The system is developed with Google Cloud support and can handle orders in English and Spanish.<\/li>\n<li>Early test results indicate significant transactions have been processed without human intervention.<\/li>\n<li>The rollout follows a previous endeavor with IBM that encountered issues but is now being refined for future implementation.<\/li>\n<li>McDonald\u2019s has not announced a timeline for wider adoption but upgrades are reportedly being prepared across U.S. locations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McDonald\u2019s AI drive-thru test: ArchIQ System could change ordering https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/news\/2026\/06\/major-fast-food-chain-tests-ai-ordering-at-drive-thru-locations-across-us.html Publish Date: 2026-06-06 13:54:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":227276,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/resizer\/v2\/K7TTEJ6WA5HCBCKUN4YZS3EXWA.jpg?auth=c886e1e5193284cbf8fbd6421e0afe40fe8e9710149df30f79a3acb1e09aa402&width=1280&smart=true&quality=90","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227277,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227275\/revisions\/227277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}