Posted on 03/18/2016 7:49:09 AM PDT by 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.
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If you have ordered anything recently from the menu of a favorite hamburger joint, and looked at the picture, then looked and what you got...you have probably been disappointed, or disgusted.
One positive thing about robots, is that quantity, quality, getting exactly what you ordered, and repeatability will improve, and improve tremendously. And lets not forget that the robot knows how to make change.
As a teaching institution the public expects some digression, it is part of the learning process. But when they are making $15.00/hr. You expect much better product. Instead, in Seattle where wages are 12.50/hr, its simply more of the same.
Perhaps Robots would be better...just sayin.
Might find a spot or two of Marvel Mystery Oil on it though.
:-)
I guess the little piggie wants all the profit, screw the working class.
Sounds good! But who’ll have the money to buy?
Won’t this lead to government dependency?
I suspect one occupation that will grow is that of Security Guard to guard such places. Or course you could just install a system with lasers that zap anyone who tries any funny business.
I bet this has a lot to do with the decision: http://www.businessinsider.com/momentum-machines-burger-robot-2014-8
I wonder how Carl’s would like to have a restaraunt with no customers?
I’ve been in a lot of restaurants where I never saw a person.
Or a robot.
I, for one, welcome our new mechanical servants.
The road to the trans-humanism of Julian Huxley and Fichte.
Wait until our children have such a minimum capacity to control inner emotions and use language, since they will never ever have to practice any human interactions-—just looking at screens and pressing buttons-—the autistic personalities blossom—no eye contract, where every thing caters to Outer Control ONLY, since there will be no Inner Control (Virtue) which takes close human interactions with human beings and agency—which takes 18 years of constant practice with reading the Great Books and Real Life Experiences with others (not dealing with an artificial reality).
Like Ray Bradbury stated in F451-—all books were NOT taken away and burned by the State-—the people CHOSE to sit in front of screens (alienation) and quit reading (agency). They desired the control and programming by others 24/7 with no intellectual growth—(no agency/self-initiative/building of the brain).
Then, when the minds of generations are fried—limited—controlled, programmed—by the super elite satanists/psychopaths, the “few” who were alway out of Plato’s Cave were hunted and destroyed—and the books burned. (All “thinking” is completely controlled by elites-—Good and Evil is created by the State).
Hopefully, Mel Gibson who used to have the screen rights to the Bradbury book, will get the psychology correct. Bradbury was disappointed in Hollywood’s version (of course) which missed the point of the book———People CHOSE slavery and socialism/tyranny. It was only a few who had to go underground when the “firemen” had to be created.
As Aristotle stated, we are social animals. When we live in non-human artificial worlds, where we use the mind in such limited, outer controlled ways, it will create psychosis and mental illness and psychopaths. It is dehumanization.
Love (true humanization) is practiced only by human interaction/time and using all the senses which integrates the brain fully. When people are removed from healthy, loving community interactions with people—they have no true friends—no skills to make friends (which are learned and practiced continually)-—they become like an Adam Lanza or that Bergdahl—people incapable of making friends or relating to real people.
Am I going on a rant? Yes! But I see in the future so clearly with driverless cars (no agency) and robots making it so people never have to move an atom in the brain. It will literally be shut down (the brain) which is what Fichte designed the Prussian school system to do—destroy Free Will-—so people are incapable of profound, abstract thought. Just feelings associated to concepts—conditioning to be the “happy slaves” for the state-—too dumb to “know” anything, even if they are male or female. (No identity, no self, no agency, no individualism possible——all socialism/group-(non)-think—totally controlled, tribal mindsets.
It is the trans-humanism that Huxley understood is the endgame of the psychopaths who become so deranged from power. Machines/robots/tv/movies/video”games” are the means to destroy the ability to control true human emotions and have profound real life experiences which require Free Will (true choice).
Amish urban 'yutes' would be over the counter in moments to rip the ever lovin' shite outta the thing. Just for kicks.
That sounded a lot like "Demolition Man"...where the Dennis Leary character said...
That's right. You see, according to *Cacteau's* plan. *I'm* the enemy. Because I like to think, I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech, freedom of choice. I'm the kind if guy who would sit in the greasy spoon and think "Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the big rack of Barbecued spare ribs with the side order of gravy fries?" I *want* high cholesterol. I want to eat bacon, butter and buckets of cheese alright? I want to smoke a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinatti in a non-smoking section. I wanna run around naked with green jell-o all over my body reading a Playboy magazine. Why? Because maybe I feel the need to okay pal? I've *seen* the future, you know what it is. It's made by a 47 year-old virgin in gray pajamas soaking in a bubble bath, drinking a broccoli milkshake and thinking "I'm an Oscar-Meyer Wiener". You wanna live on top, you gotta live Cacteau's way. What he wants, when he wants, how he wants. Your other option: come down here, maybe starve to death.
I have a client that has a bunch of Carl’s franchises in California. They’re already paying close to $15/hour because they can’t get anyone to work for less—which would be around $10 to $11 an hour.
I have a client that has a bunch of Carl’s franchises in California. They’re already paying close to $15/hour because they can’t get anyone to work for less—which would be around $10 to $11 an hour.
All you low wage unskilled union dupes will be replaced by robots that: 1) don't get sick, 2) have scheduling conflicts, 3) don't spit ing the food, 4) get the order correct, 5) don't have to have a work ethic. With food prep and delivery automated, what where will you union members find a job?
I go to restaurants now where I barely see anyone. I wait 15 minutes and go somewhere else.
This is the inevitable consequence of low income, uneducated, unskilled people getting organized with unions and social justice people and it will result in more welfare and fewer people working.
Are there a lot of fast food restaurants in “random urban locations”? I thought those were “food desserts” for a reason.
Go to LA say along the 105 freeway and get off around Nickerson Gardens or cruise Western Ave. Lots of places with metal plates over the order window and slots for passing food out like lock up cells in prison.
The CEO already doesn’t see any people in his restaurants. He looks right through.
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