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Carl's Jr. CEO Wants to Open a Robot Restaurant Free of Human Workers
Eater ^ | March 17, 2016 | Whitney Filloon

Posted on 03/17/2016 9:19:06 AM PDT by C19fan

As minimum wages across the country rise and restaurants face increased labor costs, one fast food CEO is thinking about replacing human workers with robots. Carl's Jr. head honcho Andy Puzder wants to open a new restaurant concept that's "employee-free," reports Business Insider.

Puzder was inspired by a visit to Eatsa, the futuristic San Francisco-born restaurant where patrons order via tablet and retrieve their food from automated cubbies. He believes the idea of a restaurant free of social interaction could be especially appealing to millennials, noting that young people seem particularly fond of ordering from kiosks over humans.

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Society
KEYWORDS: ai; california; carljr; carlsjr; ckerestaurants; cyberburger; hardees; minimumwage; robot; robotics; robots; tennessee; terminator
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To: camle

If it can flip a burger it can wipe a table. And we already have robot vacuum cleaners in American homes, the jump to mopping won’t be too tough.


61 posted on 03/17/2016 11:10:30 AM PDT by discostu (This unit not labeled for individual sale)
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To: camle
but i cannot see robots cleaning tables, mopping floors, etc..

The Jetsons would disagree.

62 posted on 03/17/2016 11:11:45 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: C19fan

I don’t want this because the only socializing I do is with the girls at fast food joints (nice girls, here).


63 posted on 03/17/2016 11:12:43 AM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc OMorgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: catbertz

We don’t have them here, but I have found that the people in the places we do have are almost always friendly, and the orders are usually right. The oil boom here brought wages up for folks in the fast food industry, and I’m sure they are trying to keep their jobs and business, now that the boom has died.


64 posted on 03/17/2016 11:14:58 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: C19fan

Would that include Hardee’s?


65 posted on 03/17/2016 11:15:33 AM PDT by servo1969
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To: C19fan

The fast food workers here in Hurst, TX are awesome. Don’t know what it is but they are friendly and efficient. None of the “I’m just passing through, pal” baloney. Yet they don’t seem like losers who won’t go on to better things, either. They get a robotization waiver per moi.


66 posted on 03/17/2016 11:16:40 AM PDT by avenir (I'm pessimistic about man, but I'm optimistic about GOD!)
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To: avenir

Chick Fil A as a chain is the absolute platinum standard when it comes to customer service in the fast food industry, at least for a chain of its size. I have never, ever had bad customer service at a Chick Fil A anywhere in the country.


67 posted on 03/17/2016 11:19:59 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: camle

Eliminate dine in option. Either drive thru or walk up. Here in Seattle we have a burger chain (Dick’s) that has no indoor seating, and Domino’s has a lot of Pizza Storefronts that do not offer dine in. This lowers the cost of the footprint for the store as well.


68 posted on 03/17/2016 11:21:55 AM PDT by RainMan (Liberals are first and foremost, jealous little losers who resent anyone who has anything they dont)
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To: camle

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/home-robots/irobot-braava-jet-mopping-robot


69 posted on 03/17/2016 11:32:11 AM PDT by sportutegrl
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To: C19fan

Sooo... he means he wants to open an Automat ?

Hasn’t that been done ?


70 posted on 03/17/2016 11:35:34 AM PDT by Celerity
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To: ClearCase_guy

We are going to have about 100 million low skill people who have no hope of employment.


And many of them are unemployable. At least automation doesn’t get mouthy with customers and get into fights with each other while demanding $15 an hour


71 posted on 03/17/2016 11:36:10 AM PDT by LMAO (I know Hillary and I think she'd make a great president or Vice President. Don Trump 2008)
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To: IYAS9YAS

You watch, California will attempt to ban robots in these types of service sector jobs...


They can try but progress and the law of economics eventually wins


72 posted on 03/17/2016 11:38:34 AM PDT by LMAO (I know Hillary and I think she'd make a great president or Vice President. Don Trump 2008)
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To: C19fan

Leftist economics have severely reduced the number of real jobs, or given them to non-Americans. Burger flipping is now the only job left that is open to out of work people. After replacing those jobs with robots, there will be very few people earning a salary. Where will be customers come from?

Will the only people working be lawyers and politicians? Who will pay their salaries? other lawyers and politicians?


73 posted on 03/17/2016 11:51:08 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: RainMan

“Eliminate dine in option.”

And instantly eliminate business with reliable dine-on customers like me, who eat in at quick service restaurants two or three times a day. And large breakfast and lunch gatherings also.


74 posted on 03/17/2016 11:53:28 AM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc OMorgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: I want the USA back

The “world” knows it could never beat the USA in war. The only way to beat the USA is economically. Once the USA has been reduced to a third world economy the military will be but a paper tiger. The process is almost completed. Trump is spoiling everything.


75 posted on 03/17/2016 12:00:33 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Celerity

76 posted on 03/17/2016 12:07:42 PM PDT by Pelham (more than election. Revolution)
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To: HamiltonJay

Same here.

The only problem with them (and Starbucks) is their own success. I see the drive-thru packed at most times and just say “Forget it”. Don’t even feel like fighting the parking lot to walk in.


77 posted on 03/17/2016 12:17:24 PM PDT by avenir (I'm pessimistic about man, but I'm optimistic about GOD!)
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To: catbertz

I noticed the same thing here and was impressed at the work ethic on display. It all comes down to management ethos.

Looking back at my years in the food business it’s the tough managers who I remember teaching me the most. Most of them were natural hard-arses and felt NO guilt demanding performance (and firing unwilling workers). Nothing worse for morale than a wimpy boss.


78 posted on 03/17/2016 12:26:58 PM PDT by avenir (I'm pessimistic about man, but I'm optimistic about GOD!)
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To: C19fan

Picking food up from automated “cubbies” I assume that means some kind of cubbyhole.

Everything old is new again. Something like this was done in NYC in the 30s or 40s. It was called the Automat and several of them were still operating in the 50s when I visited NYC. You went down a line like a buffet line and picked your food out of ‘cubbies’ that dispensed prepared dishes not unlike a candy vending machine.


79 posted on 03/17/2016 1:04:41 PM PDT by wildbill (If you check behind the shower curtain for a slasher, and find one.... what's your plan?)
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To: pas
I would not go. People are who buy your shit. If you don’t want workers, why should we frequent your business.

Man you don't understand millennials.

80 posted on 03/17/2016 1:11:21 PM PDT by 03A3 (The reset is gonna be epic.)
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