Blame Minimum Wage, Not Carl’s Jr. CEO, For Automated Restaurants

Investor's Business Daily ^ | 3/18/2016 | Editorial

[kvanbrunt2]

What needs to happen is quit describing the problem and start identifying and attacking the CAUSE of the problem which is the federal government and things like federal-government-forced minimum wage.>>>> every useless regulation by the feds and states and locals are a tariff.

[Trumpinator]

Thank you, Pelham. I guess truck drivers make too much money these days so they are investing in self driving trucks.

https://www.wired.com/2015/05/worlds-first-self-driving-semi-truck-hits-road/

The World’s First Self-Driving Semi-Truck Hits the Road

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW-4LU79qbU

[dragnet2]

So it looks like Carls Jr. is going to save billions on labor. I can’t wait until they cut all the prices and pass along those big saving to the consumers.

[Laser_Ray]

BWAHAHAHAHA! Oh man that was hilarious!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Why isn’t this just one sentance click bait like all other IBDeditorial click baits?

Because it wasn't posted on FR by IBD editorial writer.

[Alberta's Child]

I once attended a presentation by a major U.S. firm that was investing in technology for self-driving vehicles. There were about 15 people in the room who were professionals in various fields related to highway design and technology, and they had been invited to give a general assessment of whether their idea was feasible or not.

When the guy who gave the presentation asked for a show of hands to see who in the room thought this would work, every hand went up except one -- mine.

That was almost 25 years ago.

I'm thinking we're always going to be 25 years away from practical applications of these things. And it has nothing to do with technology, either. As I pointed out above, we've had the technology to do this for decades. It's all about cost, regulation, and legal ramifications of the whole paradigm of "self-driving" cars.

[trebb]

Saw "Sex and the Single Girls", with Tony Curtis and Natalie Wood, yesterday.

I noticed a lot of comic slaps at the coin machinery culture. Everything, including the mirrors in the restroom required coins to access and there was a automated tip box on the wall of a coin operated food dispenser. Loved the interludes and remembered the days when restrooms had the coin locks on them....

[Biggirl]

You got that right.

Not far from where I live, a new McDonald’s is going up to replace the one on the same property and it will not be suprising if it goes automated.

[palmer]

Because it wasn't posted on FR by IBD editorial writer....

...so it could be hijacked into an all caps rant about tariffs.

[Flag_This]

"Question: What do you call a nation that exports food and raw materials in exchange for finished goods? Answer: A poor 3ed world nation.

I was gonna go with "colony."

[IamConservative]

Wendy’s announced they were making the move in their corporate stores and would leave it to franchise owners to decide themselves.

The left just keeps recycling the same bad ideas each time they get a new generation that hasn’t seen the fail.

[Bryanw92]

>>Boy do we need some remedial economic refresher courses around here.

The rules of economics need to be rewritten. A refresher course only reteaches the same cliche-ridden stuff that ignores the reality of globalism as a driving force for socialism in developed nations.

[central_va]

Great analysis. Most describe the problem very well. But NOBODY can show how tariffs solves the root causes of higher costs of doing business forced by the federal government.

Tariffs put more pressure to do something about those regulations and taxes. Shut the relief valve and let her blow.

[central_va]

Let me try to educate you. The USA from 1789 to 1913 had no income taxes with the temporary exception of 1863-65 in the North. The federal government was funded entirely on tariffs an other user fees. The USA became an economic super power house under that taxation system for 125 years until the disastrous 16th amendment came along. NOW YOU KNOW.

[central_va]

The benefits of protectionism:

-repatriation of industry
-general increase in economic activity
-decreasing or no trade deficits
-balanced Federal budgets
-higher levels of baseline employment
-less social stress
-less political will for socialism
-increased national security
-raising interest rate will not crater the economy

[central_va]

Free Traitors™ like Steve Hayes of Fox news wrongly thinks the USA has been a free trading and no tariff nation from the beginning. We'll he is liar. The very first bill EVER passed was the Tariff Act of 1789. The free trading policy fiasco is relatively new which went on steroids with Bush I and his NWO crapolla. The fact is up until 1913 the USA had no income taxes and the Feds were completely funded with tariffs and other user taxes.

The Republican party was historically the protectionist party an IMO needs to return to its pro tariff roots.

[Joe Boucher]

Never been to either : Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s for any reason.

[bert]

You are correct but the E Trogs (Economic Troglodytes) insist tariffs cause jobs and are demanded by the ghosts of the founders

with a $15 minimum wage and $7.00, you can get a cup of coffee

[Magnatron]

Well, all I know is that if I go to McDonalds five times, they’ll screw up my order four. If a machine makes sure I’m getting the sausage biscuit with egg I ordered instead of a sausage biscuit I didn’t order, I say automate-up!