The rule of unintended consequences just jumped up and bit a bunch of people in the ....
This cannot be good for obamanomics. Seems fast food jobs were about the only kind of jobs the Obama/Yellen economy could produce.
If these jobs are replaced by machines, I won’t miss the attitude of so many fast food employees.
1. It won't spit on your burger
2. It'll save money by not needing latex gloves and hair nets
3. It doesn't text while working..
Bring them in. Most of these places have been taking the fast out of fast food for many years.
Regards,
They might do it for (bogus) “food safety” reasons. Or they might do it for “social justice” reasons. Whatever.
As a side story, I remember when self-service gas stations first started appearing in my area. Some politicians tried to ban them on the grounds that they were unsafe.
Translation please.
Fewer people, obviously, but they will still want $15/hour.
And Obama thought ATMs were bad for employment. If he really cared he would be doing something. He doesn’t.
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Do those work if you use gloves? No way I'm touching one of those covered with greasy, grimy fingerprints of McDonalds customers.
Just wait until McDonalds partners up with some chicom automation firm to crank out thousands of fully automated fast food restuarants.
They’ll get the illegals to install the equipment, and the H1B imports to operate and maintain them.
And all of the other restuarants will have to follow suit if they want to survive.
Of course, with a huge block of former fast food workers now dumped on the welfare rolls, the new fast food restuarants will have to virtually give away fed subsidized happy meals to their former employees and suppliers.
Oh! Did I forget the supplier chain in this deal?
All of the farmers, processors, truckers, bankers, inspectors, and all of their infrastructure get the boot too, because NONE of you can compete against cheap foreign labor, period.
But you can be rest assured that the shareholders and funds managers will make a nice profit next quarter, and can just dump their former human baggage off on the government to take care of.
“cost US taxpayers” but not corporations. Don’t eat them.
Better wash the hands after ordering from the kiosks and before eating the food. Then again kiosks dont have to take a dump in the restrooms either.
I really like the people from whom I buy tacos or burgers everyday. I know that most of them really like their jobs and they know this $15.00 is crap. Some of them are worth $15/hr and get it but they knowingly stand next to people who never will.
The Obama/Clintoon, Sanders voters, aka fast food workers are on strike around the country this morning for the $15/hour wage.
In the meantime, machines like this are being built and getting ready to replace the strikers.
Each fast food outlet will have Android and I Phone apps allowing customers to order their food and then pay for them with their smart phones. There will be no need for cashiers.
The store managers will hire a professional cleaning service to keep their stores clean.
The companies providing these machines will provide in store workers to keep them clean and working.
Amazon will provide pickup and delivery to your home or office, eliminating the need to even go in the food place.
You will be able to place and charge your order on your Amazon Prime Card.
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When I was a kid, growing up in Ventnor, N.J., on rare occasions I would need to call the operator for a number or assistance as my dad had a side business of repairing TV’s and radios. The operators were trained to be be very courteous, quick and efficient - always very professional. A few years later I was in the Coast Guard and was stationed at Governor’s Island, N.Y. for electronics school. I needed to dial the operator for a number I was trying to find (new girl friend). The difference was stunning! The operator was having a causal conversation with her colleagues that, to her, was way more interesting than the conversation she was supposed to be having with me - and forget being quick.
It’s the same idea for the fast food industry today. It’s too bad as some workers are very nice and the experience is very satisfying - but it’s becoming all too common place to have the opposite, “I’m here for my convenience, not yours.”
There is a greater reality in life that eventually takes over if you do not adjust your life to it instead of expecting it to adjust to you. The more libs try to equal outcomes and make life “fair” the worse those two things (and many others) will become for the people they are supposedly trying to help.
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