"Drones will hover above customers, who will need to thrust their hands into the sky to retrieve the burritos as they descend on the end of a winched tether."
And besides the munchables, they get a pet drone on a leash.
That is a very good prize.
It sounds like the plot of a half-baked stoner movie screenplay, but it's actually happening: Google boss company Alphabet and Mexican food chain Chipotle have become the flying burrito brothers under a delivery-by-drone plan that will first target the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). …
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If I recall correctly it's the equivalent of 'drop a deuce', 'lay some cable', 'pinch off a loaf', 'back one out', 'feed the sewer gator', 'lay a brick', and depending on the burrito 'mud butt fire storm'. I'm sure there are lots of others but these are what I can recall from when I was a millennial's age.
As someone who delivered pizzas etc in college, this will fail miserably. How will the drone know he's delivered the payload to the person who is expecting it? Is the an IoT app for this tom foolery?
Cue complaints: Hey you dropped my burrito from 50m, now it's a quesadilla!
Yes, my coat, the one with the Chipotle menu in the pocket.
Surely they'll have a break-away connector on the cable such that you can't just reel the drone in. Or, maybe an emergency cut-away. Given that the burritos are only going to weigh a few ounces, even a bit of one or two pound mono-filament Nylon fishing line would probably be adequate, and cheap to replace.
As for the clay pigeon shooting, hey, what's better than shooting something out of the sky that you can eat afterwards?
Hmm, "Drop a burrito"; isn't that something you do in the restroom? ;-)
I'm sure they could probably increase the cool factor by streamlining the drone. Rather than your typical quad-copter, use one that looks like a B-17, and bomb the students with the burrito. You could probably get thousands of "gamers" to be drone operators in a scenario like this. Hmm, might not work so well in certain countries, though.
Anon Y. Mus
P.S. I'll get my coat. It's the one with the instructions for operating the Norden bomb sight in the pocket.
Well I presume they will be wrapped in the same foil that burritos you buy the old fashioned way are, so I don't see why keeping them warm should be a problem. The problem will be that it is a lot less efficient to take a minute per delivery (and that's being optimistic) when you can serve many times that number of walk up customers.
This is a ridiculous gimmick of no practical value whatsoever. Yeah it'd be fun - I'm sure I'd order one that way once just for the hell of it. But next time I'd go to the food truck and get one much more quickly.
"But next time I'd go to the food truck and get one much more quickly."
Yeah, and that could be even more convenient!
Didn't one of Trump's supporters promise us that, if Hillary was elected, there'd be a taco truck on every corner?*
They usually sell burritos too!
*Why, yes, he did!