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They're not trying to. They're mostly trying to replace the need for wages and salaries.
The fact that they're doing it with effectively "we have wage slaves at home" leads to your point.
AI can be a great tool. As an assistant. As a fancy search engine. And sometimes to do the most menial parts of jobs. But it doesn't directly replace people. Even in the case of taking fast food orders, first that's not a whole job, and second, it still needs supervision. It's a tool.
l was with you until you said fast food wasn't a whole job. It's more of a job than most, especially because of supervisors. It's exhausting and rough work. The one cost they bring up the most at fast food jobs is "labor" costs (they never say wages, wonder why).
Parent comment is saying that taking orders at a fast food restaurant is not the full job. Not that working in fast food isn't a real job.
I believe that if you re-read that and correct a mild grammatical error the intent becomes clearer (correction highlighted):