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Retailers and fast-food chains are responding by installing kiosks and deploying AI-driven drive-thrus. Major chains including Wendy’s and McDonald's are already testing robotic services, recognizing that human labor has become too costly under new policies. Gavin Newsom’s administration, with its emphasis on taxing big business and wealthy individuals, has inadvertently accelerated this shift toward automation, where robot arms at the drive-thru may soon replace human order-takers entirely.