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Minimum-wage offensive could speed arrival of robot-powered restaurants
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| August 16, 2015
| Lydia DePillis
Posted on 08/17/2015 6:27:53 AM PDT by C19fan
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At least the Washington Post recognizes the law of supply and demand applies to labor as much as widgets. There are now experiments about ordering using a touch screen device and robots making burgers. I would also have soda machines available instead of having the staff bring non-alcoholic drinks.
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posted on
08/17/2015 6:27:53 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
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..............................
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posted on
08/17/2015 6:30:50 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
To: C19fan
If I owned one, I’d call it “Spitless Joe’s Speed Burgers.”
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posted on
08/17/2015 6:31:51 AM PDT
by
Gaffer
To: C19fan
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.
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posted on
08/17/2015 6:32:13 AM PDT
by
telstar12.5
(...always bring gunships to a gun fight...)
To: C19fan
Gotta love liberals and their misunderstanding of basic common sense.... *rolls eyes*
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posted on
08/17/2015 6:32:34 AM PDT
by
proud American in Canada
(May every person have the chance, every day, to listen to the sound of children laughing in play.)
To: C19fan
Minimum-wage offensive could speed arrival of robot-powered restaurantsNot could...WILL.
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posted on
08/17/2015 6:33:31 AM PDT
by
RoosterRedux
(Trump's ISIS policy: Kick their ass. Take their gas.)
To: Gaffer
LOL! And germ-free to boot! :) No more people with colds or the flu or ebola handling your food...
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posted on
08/17/2015 6:33:45 AM PDT
by
proud American in Canada
(May every person have the chance, every day, to listen to the sound of children laughing in play.)
To: C19fan
Taco Bell used to make their own refried beans each day. They used a giant pressure cooker. That was the 70's. I made $1.35 an hour I think. Then I moved up to prep cook at a decent restaraunt (reservations only) for $3.50 and hour.
Then I graduated high school.
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posted on
08/17/2015 6:35:41 AM PDT
by
blackdog
(There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
To: C19fan
Among other outlets, Sheetz food counter has had touchscreens for ordering for years. No counter people, just a couple cooks and the cashier who also serves the gas station customers.
To: C19fan
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posted on
08/17/2015 6:36:37 AM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
To: C19fan
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.
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08/17/2015 6:37:04 AM PDT
by
dangus
To: hinckley buzzard
They have the same process at Wawa.
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08/17/2015 6:37:17 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: telstar12.5
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.
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posted on
08/17/2015 6:37:32 AM PDT
by
C. Edmund Wright
(WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again)
To: C19fan
Minimum-wage offensive could speed arrival of robot-powered restaurants
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posted on
08/17/2015 6:37:59 AM PDT
by
BerniesFriend
(I am BerniesFriend, however it's really Bernadette, NOT Bernie Sanders friend!!!!!!!)
To: dangus
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....
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posted on
08/17/2015 6:39:02 AM PDT
by
C. Edmund Wright
(WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again)
To: Gaffer
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.
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08/17/2015 6:40:42 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to deprive me of mine. Kinda weird.)
To: C19fan
I sure do miss Wawa. Amoroso’s. Ellio’s frozen pizza. Tomato pie style pizza. Soft pretzels at red lights. Good deli.
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posted on
08/17/2015 6:44:25 AM PDT
by
blackdog
(There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
To: rktman
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.
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posted on
08/17/2015 6:46:43 AM PDT
by
Gaffer
To: blackdog
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posted on
08/17/2015 6:48:05 AM PDT
by
Hojczyk
To: Gaffer
Same circumstance in Reno. Appears most of the kids are hard working and trying to earn a little gas money.
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posted on
08/17/2015 6:51:29 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to deprive me of mine. Kinda weird.)
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