Posted on 08/17/2015 6:27:53 AM PDT by C19fan
Crowded. That’s how Ed Rensi remembers what life was like working at McDonald’s in 1966. There were about double the number of people working in the store — 70 or 80, as opposed to the 30 or 40 there today — because preparing the food just took a lot more doing.
“When I first started at McDonald’s making 85 cents an hour, everything we made was by hand,” Rensi said — from cutting the shortcakes to stirring syrups into the milk for shakes. Over the years, though, ingredients started to arrive packaged and pre-mixed, ready to be heated up, bagged and handed out the window.
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Chili’s Restaurant already has computer screen’s at the tables so you can order the meal and even pay your bill with the credit card slot..............................
If I owned one, I’d call it “Spitless Joe’s Speed Burgers.”
robot mixologists would be great, especially behind my basement bar.
restaraunts ditching most of the waiter / counter staff is a no-brainer. it will happen. and what few staff doing that work will get fewer hours as a result.
Gotta love liberals and their misunderstanding of basic common sense.... *rolls eyes*
Not could...WILL.
LOL! And germ-free to boot! :) No more people with colds or the flu or ebola handling your food...
Then I graduated high school.
Robot hamburger factory makes 360 Gourmet Burgers every hour...
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Option 1: Restaurant owners incessantly pleading for legalization of illegal aliens and government picking up the shortfall for what they don’t pay towards a living wage (most welfare is to the “working poor”).
Option 2: Robots.
Option 2 is sort of a no-brainer.
They have the same process at Wawa.
I agree with the waiter counter staff thing....
but ‘fraid in some circumstances I disagree with the bar tender thing....bar tenders make real good money in many places, and in many places, they bring a lot to t he experience. Especially those places with a good amount of regulars.
(now a high volume speed bar is different).
Bar keeps could care less about the minimum wage. Their gravy is the tip jar.
Robots ARE the new illegal immigrants. (in some ways).
Robots why? To do jobs citizens don’t want to do.
Is it just me, or ironic that everyone believes this about bots but not about illegals? Just sayin....
Hmmmm. Maybe they could program the robots to be surly and have crappy attitudes so we don’t miss that interface too much. Actually, I do appreciate some of the kids that are working at FF places instead of thinking their parents owe them everything. You need gas money? Get a job. You want a car? Get a job. Etc, etc, etc. I’m sure a lot of you know the routine.
I sure do miss Wawa. Amoroso’s. Ellio’s frozen pizza. Tomato pie style pizza. Soft pretzels at red lights. Good deli.
It all depends on where you go when you have to eat in these places. For instance, there isn’t anywhere near Atlanta I’d want to stop and eat something. Mostly illegals working there or others whose welfare has run out.....
In my little town here in north GA, all the kids are hard workers and the food is good (at least for what they’re selling as corporate food) and spit free.
Same circumstance in Reno. Appears most of the kids are hard working and trying to earn a little gas money.
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