The Drive-Thru Voice Stack in 2025: A Buyer's Framework After Vox, Loman, Presto, SoundHound

A drive-thru order menu board lit up at dusk.

Operators keep asking me which voice-AI vendor to pick for the drive-thru. The question is wrong. Voice AI isn't one product — it's four discrete decisions, each with different incumbents, different failure modes, and different ROI math. Here's how to buy it.

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