Fast food at the click of a mouse

Iria

Like many other American teenagers, Julissa Vargas, 17, has a minimum-wage job in the fast-food industry - but hers has an unusual geographic reach.

"Would you like your Coke and orange juice medium or large?" Vargas said into her headset to an unseen woman who was ordering breakfast from a drive-through line. She did not neglect the small details -"You Must Ask for Condiments," a sign next to her computer terminal instructs - and wished the woman a wonderful day.

What made this $12.08 transaction remarkable was that the customer was not just outside Vargas's workplace here on the central California coast. She was at a McDonald's in Honolulu. And within a two-minute span Vargas had also taken orders from drive-through windows in Gulfport, Mississippi, and Gillette, Wyoming.
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Matth

Next step, use cheaper than US minimum wage operators at overseas call centres

calidan

And then we'll get pissed because they can't speak English.