Carl’s Jr. CEO wants to try automated restaurant where customers ‘never see a person’

KFOR.com ^ | 17 Mar 2016 | KFOR-TV & K. Querry

[Rockitz]

NEW YORK – A CEO of a fast-food company is causing a stir on social media after claiming that he wants to create a fully automated restaurant.

“We could have a restaurant that’s focused on all-natural products and is much like an Eatsa, where you order on a kiosk, you pay with a credit or debit card, your order pops up, and you never see a person,” Carl’s Jr. CEO Andy Puzder told Business Insider.

Puzder says the automated restaurant would be cheaper since he wouldn’t have to worry about rising minimum wage.

“If you’re making labor more expensive, and automation less expensive- this is not rocket science,” Puzder said.

“They’re always polite, they always upsell, they never take a vacation, they never show up late, there’s never a slip-and-fall, or an age, sex, or race discrimination case,” says Puzder of swapping employees for machines.

[Rockitz]

The market always finds the true minimum wage. In this case it will be ZERO for many.

[traderrob6]

Gotta love the free market.

[dfwgator]

Life Imitates "Idiocracy"

"Enjoy your *BIG ASS FRIES*!"

[Zathras]

But think about all the Psychology Majors who will be out of a job...

[20yearsofinternet]

ROFL, came here to post the same thing.

[silverleaf]

Robots never spit in your food

[papertyger]

The market always finds the true minimum wage. In this case it will be ZERO for many.

When you try to sell the notion someone should be able to make a living flipping hamburgers, what can you expect?

[dfwgator]

Carl’s Jr. ____ You, I’m Eating!

[The_Media_never_lie]

Remember the Automat of the 60s in New York?

[The_Media_never_lie]

Robots work for free and they don’t have an attitude.

[traderrob6]

[I want the USA back]

Probably going to happen in other industries too. If it expands, there will be few people getting a salary, except politicians and lawyers, and able to actually buy something.

[20yearsofinternet]

Clip on the off chance some haven’t seen it (mildly NSFW).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW-4LU79qbU

[SamAdams76]

People with liberal arts degrees are quickly running out of places to find jobs. I wonder how soon we will have robotic baristas at Starbucks.

[FES0844]

I do! Always had a lot of nickels!

[SMARTY]

It’s called an ‘automat’

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Horn and Hard-up was ahead of its time.

[jessduntno]

“Remember the Automat of the 60s in New York?”

Horn & Hardart. There was an alternative name for the lustier crowd.

[Obadiah]

[Olog-hai]

No, but they could leak lube oil into it.