"Do you want fries with that? You have 10 seconds to reply... You have 9 seconds to reply..."
-PJ
The Rise of the Machines
They can order and then self pay for that burger through a kiosk.
The service will be excellent!
Roberto the manbot will get the job!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj2dmQruJXs
New York will simply outlaw the machines. Simple.
They use those things in Wa Wa Hut, I hate them.
AFL-CIO in negotiations right now trying to represent robots in order for them to get equal rights. :)
Every time the minimum wage is increased, unemployment goes up. The minimum wage theory is that it will help young, inexperienced, new-entrants, often minority workers in the labor force to get a “living wage”. Since the dawn of minimum wage laws, every increase has seen young, inexperienced, new-entrants, often minority workers fired when the new wage takes effect. At $15/hr, there are going to be a massive number of workers saying: “My wage was $15/hr when I was fired.” Still, hope springs eternal as these idiots demand a wage that is unsustainable with their current skill sets. Absolutely stupid.
"Do you want fries with that? You have 10 seconds to reply... You have 9 seconds to reply..."
-PJ
So the minimum wage will be $15 per hour. Unfortunately, there will be no jobs. Think they’ll learn anything?
Generally I do not like the idea of a machine taking over a persons job, but my exception, a huge one, is in food preparation.
A properly maintained machine should be germ free, people are not.
Cooks coughing, never showering, going to the bathroom and not washing their hands as a few examples makes me wonder if that’s why I occasionally get so sick after eating at a restaurant that I have to immediately seek the bathroom.
I know of two instances where cooks intentionally contaminated food, one where a guy hawked up a herman lugy and spit it on to a hamburger. Another is where an Army cook ejaculated some unpleasantries into the bread dough. All disgustingly nasty. So I often wonder what goes on that I do not know about?
Businesses welcomed the new “minimum wage” (actually a minimum hourly rate). Now they’re trying to get out of it. If they had had any sense, they would have opposed it as something the government has no right to impose.
Gee, if only somebody would’ve seen this coming!
/sarc>
CC
Someone has to maintain and program those things,
in order to earn a salary
and pay taxes
which go to the people that the machines replaced
because they demanded more compensation than their labor is worth.
i’d be willing to be that the machine would make the burger look more like the picture we see in the ads.
Well, yeah. The low-skill union agitators have influenced their low-skill legislators to set wage goals that price their low-skill members right out of the labor market, because their low-skill customers won't pay for service that is so low-skill that from the get-go was not even worthy of tipping.
The drive-by food service chains will either implement a new business model or die. Remember, the Mickey Dee model, new in its beginning, found its footing by replacing the low-skill inefficient home-prepared meal paradigm.
With the pizza-delivery model, the customer doesn't even have to own a car or kitchen.
Personally I’d prefer an automated ordering system that doesn’t make a mistake every time my family visits McD’s. It doesn’t make sense that their method of taking an order is to have me shout it out over the noisy surroundings to some teenager who usually can’t find the right button to press. Turn the machine around and let me find and press the right buttons! Then let the robotics take care of the rest.