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McDonald’s Replacing Cashiers With Machines?
© Copyright 2008-2014, Legal Insurrection, All Rights Reserved. ^ | Saturday, August 9, 2014 at 1:45pm | Kemberlee Kaye

Posted on 08/09/2014 6:33:37 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines

McDonald’s employees who picketed for a better living wage (whatever that means) may come to regret that decision.... a McDonald’s in Illinois replaced their cashiers with machines. The machines appear to be the cousins of the ones found in grocery stores, big box stores, and CVS that allow customers to complete transactions...

This is all basic economics, really. As costs of labor increase the added cost must be offset. In order to satisfy operating costs, produce a product consumers want to purchase, and still turn a profit, it’s perfectly reasonable for a company like McDonald’s to look for cost-cutting alternatives....

Robot makers must be loving the recent NLRB ruling, as well, which held McDonald’s parent corporation liable for franchisee employment practices. Can a kiosk file an employment grievance?

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To: HiTech RedNeck

Wendy’s


21 posted on 08/09/2014 6:46:26 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Press one for English will be replaced with
Press one for a Big mac. I like it.


22 posted on 08/09/2014 6:46:46 PM PDT by Autonomous User
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To: GeronL

Do you like Dr. Pepper or a Cherry Coke? Those are basically pops that have been mixed.


23 posted on 08/09/2014 6:47:40 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

There was an article this week that someone put up on gopbriefingroom about a vending machine that makes pizzas from scratch in 3 minutes.

There are vending machines that do fries. Make burgers. Make tacos. No machine yet that makes the slop Arby’s serves, but it’s coming. You are going to wind up with entire restaurants with a single employee on each shift, just to keep the machines topped off and bus tables (people tending to be pigs and not cleaning up after themselves is an increasingly common trend.)


24 posted on 08/09/2014 6:47:42 PM PDT by EC1
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To: Jonty30

the chicken sandwich isn’t too bad

I found it was better with some black pepper


25 posted on 08/09/2014 6:47:46 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Proud2BeRight

“take some gloves when ordering. “
Ballpoint pen, or the eraser end of a pencil.


26 posted on 08/09/2014 6:48:16 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

27 posted on 08/09/2014 6:48:23 PM PDT by Brother Cracker ( Mossberg 500 helps me deal with being old and cranky)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Look at the self-service checkouts in operation now. Touch screen with pictures. I’ll bet McD & BK already have the templates in use on their registers to aid illiterate staff members. Child’s play to roll this out to a kiosk that accepts cash or plastic. Heck, when the McD is inside Walmart, the Walmart cashiers can already place your order for you.


28 posted on 08/09/2014 6:49:16 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Kerry, as Obama's plenipotentiary, is a paradox - the physical presence of a geopolitical absence")
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To: EC1

That one pizza machine holds enough to make a hundred 10 inch pizzas.

That employee has time to bus the tables, mop the floors and clean the bathrooms before refills.


29 posted on 08/09/2014 6:49:18 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
McDonald’s employees who picketed for a better living wage (whatever that means) may come to regret that decision....
Once again, the law of unintended consequences. Always be careful what you wish for.
30 posted on 08/09/2014 6:49:47 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: JohnBrowdie
on the upside, the price of big macs won’t be going up.

Who cares. The food at McDonald's has sucked for a long time.

31 posted on 08/09/2014 6:49:52 PM PDT by Professional Engineer (You all can go to hell, I'm going to Texas.)
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To: NonValueAdded

A story yesterday said that McD’s has a location they research new stuff, and it now has kiosk ordering machines.


32 posted on 08/09/2014 6:50:11 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: EC1

Remember when Zero blamed ATMs for the high unemployment numbers..He’s gonna have a ball with this..


33 posted on 08/09/2014 6:50:12 PM PDT by ken5050 ("One useless man is a shame, two are a law firm, three or more are a Congress".. John Adams)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Well to all the little 20 something libtards out there picketing for a $15 minimum wage this is a little economics lesson for you. When the cost of unskilled labor gets too high you can replace it with a machine. No sick days, no health insurance, no FICA, no vacation, no listening to the complaining, no theft.


34 posted on 08/09/2014 6:50:54 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Jonty30

Good point. Never eat there anymore since high school but occasionally have an unction for a fillet o fish, Ii don’t know why. It is good but has gone up in price, now over four dollars. Just the consequence of more and more dollars chasing fewer goods—inflation by another name.


35 posted on 08/09/2014 6:51:18 PM PDT by Fungi (Do not read this post.)
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To: GeronL

I ate at Red Robin today. They had hosts and waiters/waitresses, but when it was time to go, I paid a little machine right on my table. Soon, I guess, I’ll be able to order from the little table kiosk.


36 posted on 08/09/2014 6:51:44 PM PDT by umgud (I couldn't understand why the ball kept getting bigger......... then it hit me.)
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To: newnhdad

The machine will be able to understand English and get my order correct.


But it won’t spit on your food.


37 posted on 08/09/2014 6:53:12 PM PDT by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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To: Jonty30

Dr. Pepper was a mix at the beginning but it has been its own drink for a century at least


38 posted on 08/09/2014 6:53:33 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines; All
Apologies in advance..I want to ask a different, though related question: Has anyone tried to use the new self-checkout machines at WalMart?

They absolutely suck..Every other item it tells me to remove it, and reverses the entry..If I had a baseball bat..I'd beat it to death. I finally just left my cart, full of goods, and walked out.

WalMart seems to be trying to force people to use them...limiting the number of open cashiers...even when lines are long..

39 posted on 08/09/2014 6:53:43 PM PDT by ken5050 ("One useless man is a shame, two are a law firm, three or more are a Congress".. John Adams)
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To: Rides_A_Red_Horse

If it doesn’t do Spanish they will have a class-action lawsuit on their hands.


40 posted on 08/09/2014 6:55:11 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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