Visor-clad, burger-handling teens wrapped in eau de deep fryer beware: Your days are numbered — at least in Europe.

McDonald’s Europe is replacing their front line cashier McJobs with touchscreen terminals and swipe cards in 7,700 of their locations.

The move by the fast-food giant is an attempt to ensure more convenient dining keeps customers flocking through their doors despite hard economic times.

“Ordering food has not changed for 30 or 40 years,” Steve Easterbrook, president of McDonald’s Europe, told the Financial Times.

But in an era of convenience, Ronald McDonald decided that the time for service with a swipe instead of a smile, was now.

Easterbrook told the Times that the introduction of the terminals would decrease customer serving times by three to four seconds per transaction. McDonald’s Europe serves two million customers each day.

The introduction of the machines will also spell the end of cash payments in locations that introduce them across the continent, as they only accept credit or debit cards.

For now, the touchscreen terminals destined for Europe will not be coming to Canada.

“We are intensely focused on meeting the needs of our customers and have currently no plans to implement a similar ordering system,” McDonald’s Canada said in a statement to the Star.

McDonald’s employs more than 77,000 at more than 1,400 restaurants across Canada.

McDonald’s North American sales were up 2.9 per cent in the first quarter this year, lower than the 5.7 per cent increase in Europe’s sales for the same period.