MUSTARD IS HARD TO DO!
Posted on 04/11/2015 2:08:44 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Maybe fast food will all become Amazon deliveries by quadrotor.
Automation of these jobs is inevitable as the unions and government keep pushing wages beyond the value of the revenue produced. Labor and capital are interchangeable and as labor costs rise it becomes more efficient to replace labor with more automation. Look at the newest auto assembly plants in the US being built outside of union dominated Detroit by companies like Hyundai. Due to automation the number of workers needed to produce an automobile is a fraction of the older plants and workers while well paid do not get the ridiculous wages that the auto unions have foisted on US car industry. I see the same result from these $15 per hour wages being pushed by the unions in the fast food industry. However I half expect government Luddites to block automation in order to “save” these jobs
Let’s hope they pull this stunt in the wrong Asst. US Atty General’s jurisdiction. This type of coordination seems easy to prove and offers fertile grounds for counter attacks. These tactics could constitute a RICO prosecution and or a federal civil action for various causes.
“...and maybe one single clerk to handle older folks who aren’t into automation purchases...”
Hey, I reassemble that remark.
Humor aside...the self-checkout stands at Lowe’s tend to be “overseen” by the better employees. If the four self-checkouts are occupied, the clerk tends to grab people in line and manually checks them out at her/his main stand while watching the other four stands. Good employees usually gravitate to higher positions.
Have any of the workers at McDonalds heard of Horn and Hardart’s Restaurants.
Horn and Hardart Coffee from the Automat
www.hornandhardartcoffee.com
from the original Horn and Hardart Automat New York and Philadelphia
The Automat . com : History
www.theautomat.com/inside/history/history.html Cached
Horn & Hardart opened its first Automat eatery in 1902 to serve good dishes cheaply. Three nickels inserted in slot, a twist of the knob, and presto! — the glass ..
These Restaurants required no counter help.
You picked the food you wanted behind Glass enclosed dispensers by putting your money in a slot and the door would open and you would take you food to your table.
McDonald’s will employ these methods to offset the cost of
higher labor . You can count on it.
I did personnel recruiting as a “head hunter” a few years after retiring from my regular chosen field of automation engineering. The easiest people to get hired were those with technical skilled degrees. I didn’t even try to place people with liberal arts degrees unless they had some technical related work in their past as it was mostly a waste of time. Automation has been with us for many many years, since the computer age has arrived, it has and will continue to sky rocket towards bigger and better things and in particular automation. McDonald’s type restaraunts as we know them today will be thing of the past. Kind of like the pickle barrel in the old country store.
Who is going to cook the food and put it behind the glass door?
wonderful noun, “burgerers” is. “burgeristas” would sound far too dignified.
Claiming they were severely burned while working.
How big of a clumsy spaz do you have to be that you can’t even work at McDonalds without getting hurt no wonder they will be replaced by the Jetsons maid Rosie.
A much smaller crew !
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