[HN Gopher] Restaurant Menu Tricks (2020)
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       Restaurant Menu Tricks (2020)
        
       Author : holotrope
       Score  : 8 points
       Date   : 2024-11-28 20:17 UTC (3 days ago)
        
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       | allears wrote:
       | "Allen says artificial intelligence and machine learning could
       | transform this even further - algorithms could look at your
       | previous choices when you last visited a restaurant and suggest
       | other items you might like.
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       | "The restaurant industry has probably spent tens of billions of
       | dollars over the years trying to understand menu design, menu
       | engineering and psychology," he says. "But the opportunities
       | presented by the fourth industrial revolution are huge. Imagine
       | being able to order a meal that has been designed to include your
       | favourite foods with a single click."
       | 
       | Well, no, as the article suggests, AI will instead be used to
       | direct diners to the most profitable menu item.
        
         | crooked-v wrote:
         | If it's anything like the recommendation engines Amazon et al
         | currently use, you'll order General Tso's chicken once and then
         | for the next year every recommendation will be slight
         | variations of General Tso's chicken from restaurants with weird
         | names you've never heard of.
        
         | add-sub-mul-div wrote:
         | AI will be used to benefit us in the same way that social media
         | is used to benefit us.
        
       | GuestFAUniverse wrote:
       | What if most of that is utter nonsense some psychologist, like
       | their former failed high priests like Zimbardo, Ariel & Co-Quaks,
       | tell them, because real work is hard?
        
         | portaouflop wrote:
         | They apparently have the numbers to back up that they actually
         | make an impact though? As long as those aren't made up, but I
         | didn't check of course
        
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