http://www.businessinsider.com/momentum-machines-burger-robot-2014-8
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3100817/posts
I feel sorry for these low-intelligence, low-info Dem voters.
They have absolutely no IDEA what mere cash cows they are to the SEIU!
People don’t HAVE to go to fast food restaurants. Nothing is FORCING them to go.
If you over-price the food, the customer base will dwindle.
(I’m embarrassed to have to type these words but that’s really how economically illiterate an amazing number of my fellow Americans truly are.)
That's only on the first wave of consequences. The second, and larger wave comes with the wage inflation across the board as EVERY other economic group seeks to balance the books.
Why shouldn't I be entitled to a 66% increase as well?
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Paying $15 an hour would raise fast-food restaurants’ total costs by approximately 15 percent.
If the restaurant's costs increase by 15%, why would they have to raise prices by ~40%?
we order and pay online.... (computer or cell phone)
we go in, our order is ready, we are OUT the door in under 20 seconds, with our food fresh and cooked exactly to our order
works every time, perfectly
(the last time we tried to order from the nice little girl at the counter, she asked for $55 for the cheeseburger
and did not realize that was a mistaken sum even when we got her to ring it up again)
technology is easy, fast, accurate, better ... saves us about 20 to 25 minutes waiting time...we get exactly the ingredients we asked for.........
technology is better at the bank (we use ATM, technology instead of waiting on long lines there, too)
technology is better on bridges and toll roads too....we are now sailing right through where the toll booths used to back up traffic........... (transponders or plate readers)
there are now machines that will cook up to 400 burgers to order, varying ingredients as per customer requests
try to have government force wages up...and we will all get faster, and better food.....as the rest of the stores automate
any labor union which tries to do this to the fast food workers does NOT have their best interests at heart. All the labor union will accomplish is to throw thousands of burget workers onto the unemployment lines.
(while making for even more automation equipment manufacuring jobs in Communist China)
I'd like to ask the fools pushing for this if they have any idea why McDonald's doesn't charge for drink refills anymore?
The last time this nonsense started up, the ‘raise’ that the workers received meant than cost of one employee per shit exceeded the cost of Coke syrup. So in a couple of years, all the drink stands were moved to the customer side of the counter, and the number of employees on the other side of the counter reduced be one. Multiply it by the number of McDonald's that existed at the time and the number of shifts, and it was something like 12,000 workers. But hey - the ones that weren't laid off did get a raise!
(they could only afford such wages by raising prices—significantly. Higher prices would, in turn, drive customers away )
Actually there is another way the could do it. If you have 10 workers raise the wages of 6 or 7 and fire the other 3-4. The remaining ones will make more but have to do much more work for it.
In no way in a real world does a $15 wage for fast food workers not destroy jobs...........
Fast food is probably the primary, and cheapest source of protein for lower-income people. Make it more expensive and they become malnourished, with everything that implies, particularly infectious disease. These things always purport to help the poor, and end up kicking them in the teeth.
So raise the prices.
If that hurts the wallets of consumers, maybe they’ll finally wake up to how the 1% has drained all the money out of the system.
The dollar menu is one of the smartest things fast food operators have ever done.
I like the dollar menu at MCD. Everything else, IMHO, is too expensive for what you get.
The thinking-and the whole idea- is to erase all profit. Businesses are supposed to eat all expenses,pay more and profit not at all. Prices MUST stay low and wages must go UP and costs must not be passed on but paid for out of the evil profits. We’re talking-for the most part- about people who have no concrete concept of money. ‘Money’ is a government card or a credit card, it’s a number given to you from ‘wherever’. So how hard it is to make the numbers bigger, add a zero? They only see what the numbers can get them, not that the money has to come from somewhere/someone.
It won’t be the first time a labor movement destroyed an industry. For big labor, it’s still a win, as it’s all about power and not workers.
Minimum Wage Hike Nanny State PING!
Here’s another thing to consider. I know people working at semi-killed to skilled jobs that aren’t making $15/hr. so how does this play out? People working at the skilled/semi-skilled jobs are going to continue at that & then have to pay more for a burger? I see a mess coming down the road.
Women and Children hardest hit.
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SEIU, say me, say it for always,
That’s the way it should be.
SEIU, say me, say it together-
Naturally...
But that would hurt the poor who depend on fast food to survive! We must force politicians to enact a cap on prices at McDonald's! (Bye-bye McD's.)
So at the age of 17, they’ve decided that they’ve hit the high-water mark and this is how the rest of their life is going to go. Have fun with that, morons.