Gosh, if only someone could see this coming. Congratulations, liberals, you now see the real minimum wage is zero dollars per hour when you get fired because you have unreasonable demands to push pictures of different hamburgers on the computer screen.
People seem not to understand that the TRUE minimum wage is $0.00.
Been doing that in Europe for at least a decade. Wasn’t needed in US because people were paid to make careers serving fast food. Now things are different.
As it is (to others) please stop claiming that the Democrats didn’t expect this in response to the high minimum wage, they knew EXACTLY what would happen, and thus the Democrats are PERFECTLY HAPPY to throw people out of work to make their political points.
That’s how you fight them - don’t call them dumb, after all they outsmarted our side to install Biden in White House - simply call them EVIL, as that’s what they are.
People will never accept correct, spit-free orders, delivered promptly.
I have frequent occasion to buy lunch from McDonalds. Presently there are 7 or 8 parking spaced detailed for picking up on line orders. Those spaces are mostly vacant. Not many online orders to be filled. The order kiosks inside are also not used. customers will stand in a short line at the now reduced in size order counter. Interestingly, most customers prefer waiting in line in their cars to order and then be served.
No worries, soon the anti-capitalists will force the payment of taxes, unemployment, social security, medicare, etc, for every deferred human employee.
California has just legislated fast workers out of jobs.
Fortunately, the $15 minimum wage activists gave fast food chains a heads up on whats coming down the pike and gave them time to prepare.
McDonalds has been installing the infrastructure in their stores to automate just about everything.
You can order and pay from a cell phone app and even have your order delivered.
They have automated kiosks in all stores
They have most of the infrastructure installed to allow them to install robotics to automate most food preparation
It's really not that expensive and it replaces the repetitive drudge work employees hate with a better, more uniform production system so the employees left over are happier.
At current California mandated min wage and employee overheads it costs $65K per employee per shift to staff a store.
For two shift operation that comes out to $130K per job function.
Automation has never been so easy and inexpensive as it is now. At these labor prices, payoff for investing in automation is less than a year.
And that does not even take into account costs for employee labor disputes and workers comp lawsuits, harassment lawsuits, gender and racial discrimination lawsuits, personal injury lawsuits and all the other lunatic crap that California has brought upon employers.
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PREDICTION:...The AUTOMATS will make a comeback!..........
Saw a meme on Facebook—”if I have to order a meal standing up, I won’t be tipping”
Fast food places that have increased costs due to higher minimum wage. As a result, employees are being laid off or given fewer hours. Kiosks have no health benefits or sick leave/personal time off.
At least one fast food place is trying NO workers, other than the cooks.
I go to some places—chains like Ruby Tuesdays or 99—where if you pay by credit card they put the card in a reader and hand it to you so you can enter in the tip, then “sign it” with your finger. But those places are sit-down meals, etc not fast food.
What do they pay the wait staff, a mere few bucks an hour and “we depend on tips”? Any “do you want fries with that” employees shouldn’t expect miracles—there are so many costs in running a restaurant and it’s bad enough diners are paying a lot more now and getting smaller portions...
There was some kind of Wendy’s I read about some years back where they wound up getting only 29 hours a week because less than 29 meant no, or less, health benefits or other perques would have to be paid.
think of all the coding jobs created from the automation of the fast food industry.
Finally all these yutes get some relief from having to slave long hours for some rich greedy business owners and can now spend more quality time with their families...
Fast Food, Newspaper stuffing and delivering, lots and lots of menial labor jobs, construction jobs,... the list is endless, were ALL DONE by High School kids and those just getting out of school when I grew up. It all changed to Adult Illegal Alien illiterate peasants for the most part starting in the 80’s.
The minimum wage is always $0.
Elites: Get rid of humans then there is no need for food.
conservative universities need to use robots with conservative AI lectures as professors
Only fools could not see this coming. I suspect they’ll outlaw the robots.
This should come as no surprise as it is a well known principle in economics that labor and capital are interchangeable. As labor costs rise it becomes possible to automate many jobs and produce as much for less cost.
Robots don’t spit in your food..and they don’t go to the bathroom and not wash their hands.