Fine, but do you believe that our friends on the let will buy that? They have no money.
All those part time cheap labor jobs are doing is subsidizing folks who are living off handouts. Why should they be subsidized with that money? It means they're living better on the dole than off of it. They already get too much.
Don’t visit Micky D’s often, but just returned from a mini vacation and use them for rest breaks. They are upgrading their menu displays. We drive with Polaroid prescription glasses and found that the kiosk displays and lighted menu displays are unreadable unless you tilt your head radically.
Also the menu displays switch displays of items like specialty coffees, etc. the switches happen so fast there is not time to read all the items available so you have to wait for the sign to cycle.
Very bad implementation of technology ....!!!
Having been in the fast food business, I can tell you that there’s more than meets the eye in this move to automate.
Do you ever get a less-than-welcome feeling from those behind the counter when you order your burger combo? From an overwhelming majority of fast food emporia? Aren’t some of them downright hostile? The ‘burbs are almost as bad as inner-city establishments.
Wendy’s (and others) have been surveying customers for some time now. They know what their achilles heel is. They are gambling that you’d rather have near-zero human contact to acquire your food, than the status quo, which the fast food business just hasn’t been able to fix.
It’s more than just the labor cost. The sad, sad, thing is that the purchase experience may very well be enhanced by removing the human element.
The liberals and unions have this ‘religious’ belief that ROI is fallacious and that business is there to employ people (their people!) No matter how ofter this is demonstrated to be a fallacy, these babies still insist upon being given the moon!
I remember an AMF proposal from the 1960/70s for an automated restaurant. The film clip was so dated that the father was wearing a hat. Yet even with vacuum-tube computers, the future was still visible!
What is left unsaid by all of the ‘living wage’ propaganda is that these jobs USED TO BE entry level teenage jobs to get a start in the rat-race. NOW, thanks to an INCOMPETENT Administration and ALSO valid trends in technology, the previous middle-class jobs are disappearing at a frightening speed.
Is there a solution? I do not know but I do know that an unemployed / unemployable populace without hope is a very dangerous animal.
I think you are all missing the Big Picture. The Big Picture is that the Left would rather have people dependent on the Government than working. Especially if they are making enough of a wage that they don’t need Government assistance.
More Clients = More Power. The person they worry about least are the hapless taxpayers. To the Left, the taxpayer is the slave. As long as there are enough suckers around to keep food on the table, the lights on, the iPhones connected and the Starbucks open, life is good.
We have already cut our eating out to twice a month and that was through fast food only. Now it will go to only once a month, if that. Have seen Chick-Filet-A gradually creep up and seems like it just shoots a hole in a $10 bill for two of us. People’s budgets can only handle so much increase and taxes and house insurance have eaten up every extra dollar available.
Pretty soon the Dems will demand companies keep the same level of employment as before. How long before we get to Directive 10-289?
An unintended consequence: Making kiosks cost effective.
I’d rather use self serve then deal with some of the customer service people I find at Wendy’s.
The next move by the progressives will be to outlaw automated fast food restaurants. You heard it here first.
I worked in fast food restaurant as a teenager. Minimum wage was 1.25.
After the first summer I applied at factories for summer work. The next summer I started at 3.15 an hour. I was rolling in cash.
Just Obama’s solution to getting more people ‘on the Dole’ and beholden to the Dems. Nothing to see here, move along.
——This will eventually happen at every fast-food restaurant ——
Actually it will not. It is technology that is already obsolete
the cash registers will be replaced by phone aps that utilize bots that provide interactive menus that are connected to the individual customers pay bot. The order bot transmits the order and the interactive pay bot pays the bill. the order is entered, already paid for.
The system is working well and very widely used in China. Wendy’s and America is very far behind on this simple technology
“and some by the need to offer a competitive wage “to access good labor.”
Translation: English Speaking Labor.
Pithy, memorable political phrases are worth their weight in gold, and “the real minimum wage is $0.00” is a perfect example. That’s something that should be adopted and hammered by Republicans right across the board because it is unanswerable.
How many Rats do you think will admit this Shame?
First company to make a pizza delivery drone is going to make a load of money.
I hope those machines are more intuitive than my car voice recognition system. I’m getting sick and tired of hearing, “pardon?”