Burger Robot to Replace Fast Food Workers With a Wage of $3 an Hour

The Mind Unleashed ^ | February 29, 2020 | Aaron Keisl

[CodeToad]

The other issue is that if the devices fail the restaurant no longer has trained employees and is stuck with needing a tech solution. We customers get poor service in that case and the business fails.

[polymuser]

“Skynet is now active...”

We now call it The Cloud.

[polymuser]

I would think the metal mesh belt thru the cooker would be better, with patties fed by (over ten patty) magazines, cheese slices applied from the cheese magazine, cooled patty fed onto the bottom bun, toppings applied buy nozzles and onion & lettuce magazines, the top bun applied, then completed burger fed into rotary carousel for hand-finishing & packing.

[VTenigma]

Good one.

[ridesthemiles]

$2000 a month costing $3 an hour:

That works out to 666.66 HOURS a month-—

Divided by 4.333 == 155 hours a week...

equals 22 hours a day...

I wonder when the labor laws will kick in here???

[I want the USA back]

OK, marxists, you can raise the minimum hourly rate as much as you want. It applies only to humans, at this time. But watch out! some people are already talking about giving rights to robots!

[ridesthemiles]

BYW- Tests have shown that those ‘kiosk order boards’ at McDonalds have more germs on them than your normal household toilet.

Masks are already in short suppply —

Will rubber gloves be next?

[Macoozie]

“Bonus: Robots do not forget to wash their hands after a toilet break and do not spread hepatitis to the customers.”

True.

But neither can you go on a date with the hot new Flippy, and maybe get some “Lovin” in the back room at closing time!

[minnesota_bound]

Target started paying $13/hr which the employees were very happy about.
The next thing Target did was cut back the hours to under 29 for many.
In short the employees got it in the shorts thanks to the democrats.

We should replace many of the congressman with robots.
The democrats are programmed already to hate America.
The congressrobots could be reprogrammed to love America.

[RetiredScientist]

You are correct. That will also create demand for those who can troubleshoot and repair these robots. Those in the business who can do so will be the last to be replaced.

[minnesota_bound]

#3 El Pollo Loco chicken twice in a row got my sides wrong.
I ask for mash potatoes and get beans or macaroni.
Other times I get thighs instead of the breasts and wing I order etc.

Burger King. I ask for no ketchup or mustard on the hamburger but sometimes I think I want even more.

How can you mix that up? At the prices the joints are charging now they should get it right.

[Secret Agent Man]

And the point was that fast food jobs, save the managers’ spot, were not meant to be long term adult-held jobs.

I had my time in a fast food place in high school. And i didn’t enjoy it and withing theee months found a far better job for the rest of high school.

[dragnet2]

Great!

This means LOWER PRICES with all the savings these mega companies save in labor.

[DownInFlames]

Boom like that.

[cloudmountain]

You’d think that would be the case. But it’s not a very mentally engaging job and that doesn’t change because they throw you a extra buck or 2 per hour. Then you have to consider how much more you have to charge for “fast food” when your labor price structure goes up.

All true. Things won't change as long as people buy their food. The food is great...salt, sugar and fat, all the things that make food TASTE and taste GOOD.

No broccoli, spinach, collard greens, kale, Chinese cabbage, mustard greens, bok choi, etc., at the fast food places.
Those places are open to MAKE MONEY and they know the food they need to produce.

[DownInFlames]

$15/hr x 2080 = $31,200 + $1,778.40 (employer portion of ss tax) = $32,978.40

Mr flippy pays for itself in 10 months regarding the initial payout.

[dfwgator]

Kroc Style!

[DownInFlames]

Don’t forget, the price tag is a 1 time fixed amount.

[cloudmountain]

A 3.00 USD job will get him/her 58 mexican pesos per hour. With an average between 8000 to 12000 Mexican pesos for the average income in Mexico, a worker in the US would only need to make 611 dollars on the high end and a little over 400 USD on the low end to equal what they make in Mexico. So a 3.00 job working 40 a week would put them into that range of the average monthly salary in Mexico. Suddenly for an illegal foreign worker having the mindset of making between 400 and 600 US dollars is not all that bad.

Maybe that worker has to produce a lot more $$ because he is supporting more than himself. Maybe his family in Mexico is, er, large.

I don't believe that so many UNATTACHED males or females come here. Why would they? It's not HOME. And I don't think they have the starry-eyed mentality of the first immigrants. They are here for ONE reason: DINERO.

It all seems to depend on and goes back to the USA and China.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-economy-peso/mexico-peso-headed-for-choppy-waters-on-back-of-trade-uncertainty-idUSKBN1X12A3

[cloudmountain]

And the point was that fast food jobs, save the managers’ spot, were not meant to be long term adult-held jobs.
WHAT are you trying to say? It doesn't make much sense.

I had my time in a fast food place in high school. And i didn’t enjoy it and withing theee months found a far better job for the rest of high school.
THIS I understand completely, even the "theee" months.