Stopped in a local McDonalds today for coffee, an employee was miffed I didn't use their new kiosk

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87. Are you agreeing?

I was arguing/commenting to the person, Gore1FL, who said for each cashier job lost their job there would be a programmer or mfg or repair job gained.

I said that was wrong and gave I somewhat padded guesstimate of what first release of software would take. That is initial cost. Some minor cost to keep sw up to date. I didn't even give guess about building the units but I'd guess they are mostly common with the units cashiers use except for some theft avoidance for supermarkets and user friendliness for kiosks. In other words no significant cost difference for the hw.

Didn't go into the fact that a handful of vendors probably do it for all the chains that use these. Customization to make it look like one store vs another is old art.

Don't work in this area of computers but have some experience so interested if that's close

From your response I don't see what you are disagreeing with.

All that said I go to the human almost always because that's usually better for me. But between an ATM or a teller I'd pick the ATM for withdrawals