"Enjoy your *BIG ASS FRIES*"
Posted on 09/10/2015 3:55:49 PM PDT by Libloather
[Can you say Robots?]
Food borne illnesses will decrease with fast food robots.
Many in those trades earn much more than that now. $20 would be a decrease in pay. Drastic decrease.
The affirmative action crowd will sue the automation companies off the rails. This kinda like Cotton Gin territory, 10 million lawyers later.
"Enjoy your *BIG ASS FRIES*"
Why just fast food workers? That’s discriminatory.
What about the people who actually made most of that food in an off-site factory, packaged it, froze it and shipped it so it can be reheated by someone who can barely boil water?
Back in 1962 we had a whole bank of machines in our lunch area that contained sandwiches and deserts - and this was in Kansas City. As I remember it was generally pretty good food, at least the first three days of the week.
There will be an improvement in the traffic jams in front our our local Wendy’s. Ditto for the jerks that pull out into traffic from Burger King.
Seriously, at $15 an hour, there won’t be a fast food outlet in the rural county I live in. Not a serious loss (except to the employees) in my opinion.
Us earners need a raise to pay for fast-food food.
Mike Rowe had an excellent piece on his Facebook page a few months back about that very thing.
Seems that a movie theater is where he got his start and worked his way up. A chance that no young person will ever have now because of minimum wage
Robots..exactly.
Fast food typically has a labor cost of approx 30%. So assuming that just doubled, you could see fast foods increase by 30% to 40%.
But that increase is enough to justify moving to robotics.
“I see borderline fast food establishments in the future.”
Yeah, the tunnels and Bridges to NJ will be “jammed” to escape and get a Big Mac there, not. NJ along the Hudson, is just where New Yorkers go to use a rest room! And coming soon, $15 FF wage requirement there too! NJ is NY’s mini-me!
THE Bastard...
It’s got a good beat, but you can’t dance to it.
Hello unemployment and more businesses leaving NY.
And it’ll spit oil in your food.
“I just went to a movie theater and was surprised they had replaced their ticket booth (and seller) with a touch-screen ticket seller and dispenser. This definitely is the wave of the future because it’s with us now. “
Carried to it’s “logical conclusion,” no one will work. Everyone will simply get a monthly check from the government and sit on their a$$. Not to worry, the Chinese will simply continue to bankroll us so they can sell us their $hit!.
Only problem there is that soon “their $hit” will be too expensive for us to buy. Next stop Greece! But maybe there’s a way out if “blacks work” killing everyone they don’t like, which includes “them.”
Exactly right. Not only are costs of menu items going up because of the minimum-pay workers, but all the way up the chain. The guy already making $15/hr will demand more. So will the next guy up the chain, now making $18/hr will want more. The ripple effect will cascade up who knows how far, and businesses will go nuts trying to please their workers, yet try to keep costs under control lest they go out of business.
Every time a business raises prices, they lose customers. In time, those customers may drift back; but maybe they won't. Many businesses will be in turmoil and will close their doors.
Because of higher prices, I don't bother frequenting fast food outlets. I stopped going some 10 to 15 years ago. I'll go to diners or nice restaurants where the prices reflect good food and ambiance. New York is nuts to do this socialist experiment doomed to failure; failure because low-wage workers will now become unemployable.
That’s a good point to show that minimum wages don’t work. There could also be a radical fluctuation toward price deflation in more markets during the years to come.
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