I know from personal experience that Liberals HATE trying to talk up the $15 per hour minimum wage and being shown this in response:
Posted on 01/01/2014 5:22:02 AM PST by Hojczyk
Easier to open in Siberia than California
"Under the current U.S. business climate, regulatory and tax restrictions tend to curb otherwise dynamic entrepreneurial energy," Puzder said. "We'd love to see more growth in domestic markets. Unfortunately, it's easier for our franchisees to open a restaurant in Siberia than in California."
In the U.S., the company's Hardee's division is expanding in New York, New Jersey, Chicago and South Florida. Meanwhile, the Carl's Jr. division is growing in Texas and the Seattle area.
Challenges to U.S. expansion
Puzder named ethanol regulation, which has resulted in higher beef costs, a rising minimum wage and higher labor costs due to Obamacare as three obstacles that make doing business in the U.S. more difficult than in the past.
To help lessen the effect of these rising labor costs and to attract a tech-savvy generation, CKE is turning to technology and looking into options for mobile ordering as well as tablet ordering within its restaurants.
"I think it satisfies the needs of younger people. It also reduces your costs," he said. "When they talk about raising the minimum wage or providing health care for employees over 30 hours, you're really encouraging automation."
Greedy corporatists. I bet they have some warped sense of the law like its their fiduciary responsibility to maximize return for their investors. How dare they!
So it's cheaper to use electronics instead of paying a sullen teenager to mumble "ya wan' fries with that"? Shocker.
Oh they don't use sullen teenagers anymore, they use sullen illegal aliens.
Yeah, you know those poor "immigrants" that just want to make a "honest" living illegally! All the while sucking at the taxpayers tit collecting benefits for their "anchor" babies and crying that a entry level job doesn't pay enough to raise a family!
Meanwhile Kenny Roger’s Chicken cannot be found in the US. If you want a chicken you have to go to Asia.
When the Fed makes capital free, it is easier to replace labor with automation.
The limousine liberals are trying to drive the lower and middle classes from all of the beautiful areas of The United States. They just legislate people to leave.
http://www.gizmag.com/hamburger-machine/25159/
http://momentummachines.com/gallery/
Earlier this year, we caught wind of a young robotics company out of San Francisco that had created its very own burger making machine. Just insert tomatoes, pickles, onions, lettuce, buns and meat and out the other end pops — you guessed it — a fully-cooked, ready-to-eat, “gourmet” hamburger.
We’ve already explored the implications a machine like this would have on the QSR market, the human jobs it would replace, but up until a few days ago, all we really had was speculation (and our own over-active imaginations). Well my friends, imaginate no longer! The global robo- takeover is officially upon us.
But it’s not as bad as you think.
Momentum Machines – the minds behind the burger maker — have expressed plans to create their own “smart restaurant” chain, serving burgers made by their own crime-fighting cooking robots. According to the company’s site, the technology will provide “the means for the next generation of restaurant design and operation.”
Yep. Then the rich liberals can have their burgers and empty beaches, too.
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