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McDonalds already has those.

French fry hoppers automatically filling baskets from a frozen mini-closet. Out comes fresh fries.

Same for the cups that they can use in drive-throughs.

I think it’s up to the franchises to buy/install them. Depends on volume/space whether its worthwhile/possible.

Or they just push it to the customer to do it.

About those automated drinks at McDonalds...when I order mine with 'no ice,' the machine is apparently incapable of filling the cup with the additional amount of coke that would normally be displaced by ice. It will simply fill the cup just 2/3 of the way. They seem to have realized this though, but instead of increasing the volume of coke dispensed, the machine drops ANOTHER cup which the employee is supposed to use to fill the actual cup to the top. The employees only do this half the time, however, which makes the entire process even more maddening. Somehow neither man, nor machine, can get a no-ice drink right at McDonalds.

That is because those machines are made in a way to mix the 'perfect' ratio of water + syrup. They take in account the ice as well. If the cup is 0.5l, it plans to be 0.4l of liquid + 0.1l of ice (random values), so if you chose no ice, you get 0.4l since that is the 'perfect' ratio. (And probably what they advertise ie '0.4l coke = 1 euro' or whatever, they just give a 0.5l cup to account for ice)

I hope one day they integrate the ice together with the drink and scoop out a single solid cube of ice to keep it from watering down right away.

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