[Vince Ferrer]

It can be the end, since fast food is just a convenience. People can easily substitute a can of soup at work for going out to McDonalds. Since customers can easily substitute, fast food must fight costs. Everything that can be automated will be. Smashburger and Subway are rolling out online ordering already.

These strikes and Obamacare will force a wave of automation, and once people get used to ordering their food from their phone and just picking it up, things will never go back. Hundreds of thousands of jobs will be lost.

[Biggirl]

Also the local restraunts will very much benifit because the unions will leave those places alone.