Your lunch break is about to get a whole lot better, now that the workplace messaging platform Slack has officially added "ordering a taco" to its workday-simplifying capabilities.
Thanks to a new partnership between Slack and Taco Bell, ordering your lunch is now as simple as starting a new chat with the fast-food chain's artificial-intelligence-powered TacoBot, a "witty personality" that can not only take, and charge you for, your order, but that can also answer your questions, organize group orders for yourself and your coworkers, and recommend menu items if you find yourself stumped. It can even keep you entertained with its sense of humor for a bit, if you've got some extra time to kill before lunch. (Let's be real: for the right reason, there's always time to kill. And banter with a TacoBot is the right reason.)
Plus, with Slack's new feature up and running, it looks like other messaging platforms are following suit and trying to get in on the "lunch is just a few keyboard clicks away" movement. Facebook, for example, now has a section of its messenger dedicated to "bots and businesses," and is reportedly working on making it easy for users to order food through bots on Facebook Messenger. WeChat and Kik, two other messaging platforms, have also made ordering food directly through the apps super simple with the use of QR codes.
So what does this mean for the rest of our messaging apps and their role in satisfying our (ever-present) hunger? Are we going to be able to get Chipotle on WhatsApp? Chick-fil-A on HipChat? Pizza Hut on Google Hangouts?
Getting quesalupas via Slack is great and all, but we need options.
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