In some aspects, an order post detects, using one or more sensors, a presence of a customer, determines an identity of the customer, retrieves previous orders of the customer, indicates at least one item in the previous orders, receives an order comprising input that includes an utterance of the customer, modifies the utterance to create a modified utterance, sends the modified utterance to a software agent comprising a natural language processor and one or more classifiers, receives a predicted response to the modified utterance from the software agent, plays back the predicted response via the speaker, determines that the order is complete, receives payment information for the order from the customer, sends order data associated with the order to a restaurant, receives an indication from the restaurant that the order is ready for pickup, and instructs the customer to pick up the order.