"Allen says artificial intelligence and machine learning could transform this even further – algorithms could look at your previous choices when you last visited a restaurant and suggest other items you might like.

“The restaurant industry has probably spent tens of billions of dollars over the years trying to understand menu design, menu engineering and psychology,” he says. “But the opportunities presented by the fourth industrial revolution are huge. Imagine being able to order a meal that has been designed to include your favourite foods with a single click.”

Well, no, as the article suggests, AI will instead be used to direct diners to the most profitable menu item.

If it's anything like the recommendation engines Amazon et al currently use, you'll order General Tso's chicken once and then for the next year every recommendation will be slight variations of General Tso's chicken from restaurants with weird names you've never heard of.

AI will be used to benefit us in the same way that social media is used to benefit us.

If that was practicable from a logistics standpoint, you would already be able to ask the server for anything you wanted at any restaurant today.