The Voice-AI Operator Bench: What Bojangles, White Castle, Taco John's, and Jersey Mike's Are Actually Doing With AI Ordering

A regional sandwich-shop counter at the lunch rush, headset on the host stand, the phone line lit.

Voice AI in December 2025 is less Wendy's-everywhere and more a quiet regional bench. The Jersey Mike's deployment is phone-orders for fifty stores, not the drive-thru — and most operator wins this year look like that one when you read the press release line by line.

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