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MCMUFFIN = FREE THIS WEEK!

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GREAT NEWS for anyone who love the McDonalds McMuffin! You’ll get a free one this week! All you got to do is to buy a hot drink from them.

Hot Drinks start at 99p, quite a good deal if you ask me! As the breakfast muffins themselves cost about £2. You can have a pick of sausage and egg, bacon and egg or egg and cheese McMuffin. Whatever takes your fancy! What a way to start the morning with FREE FOOD!

If you want a free McMuffin you got to get it through the app. Head to deals section and find the offer and take full advantage of it.

Hurry though it’s only available until Friday the 13th!

Free app: Apple / Android

Are you going to get on this sweet deal? We sure are! Let us know your experiences via our socials! Head to @howtokillanhour across all socials!

(Gizmodo)

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Hey Siri, Get Me A Big Mac – Fast Food AI

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You will soon be able to ask an AI patron what burger you’d like at McDonalds. McDonalds have announced that they are buying the voice tech startup Apprente. Why? So they can automate their drive-thru menu. *cue old people moaning that it will cost jobs!* Fast Food AI is on the way!

The Mountain View based company specialise in buidling voice agents which can take orders in a variety of languages and accents. McDonalds have been testing the tech in a number of locations and they hope it will make for “faster, simpler and more accurate order taking” via it’s drive-thrus.

McD Tech Labs

Apprente will be a part of the McD Tech Labs. Which are a new restaurant tech group. The team will become the groups founding members and co-founder Itamar Arel will serve as it’s vice-president.

“McDonald’s commitment to innovation has long inspired our team. It was quite clear from our various engagements that McDonald’s is leading the industry with technology”

“Apprente was borne out of an opportunity to use technology to solve challenging real world problems and we’re thrilled to now apply this to creating personalized experiences for customers and crew.”

Itamar Arel, Ph.D, co-founder of Apprente and Vice President of McD Tech Labs.

There is potential to expand Apprente’s tech into other areas like mobile and kiosk ordering. McDonalds purchase of Apprente is it’s third of 2019. After it acquired Dynamic Yield earlier this year in April. A personalised data startup, which customises it’s drive-thru menus by the weather, time of day, restaurant traffic and trending menu items. They also bought a minority stake in Plexure a New Zealand mobile app tech company. Fast Food AI looks incredible helpful, though at the cost of some jobs, will it create more at other areas of the company?

(Engadget)

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Episode 225 Fake News!

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McDelivery!

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McDonalds are finally doing delivery in the UK!

Well, starting in June, their testing it in a small area first, so don’t get too excited.

A spokeswoman for McDonalds told the Mirror:

“It is no secret we have been looking at the potential of delivery in recent months….This service is offered in other markets around the world and its growth within the UK continues to gather pace…..Listening to our customers, we know that this is a route they would like us to explore, and I can confirm that we are looking to launch a small delivery pilot this summer.”

Plus according to LadBible McDonalds are looking  at external services too, so it could be through Uber or Deliveroo.

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Episode 199 Booty Master 3000

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