Posted on 05/12/2016 12:07:32 PM PDT by Trump20162020
Investor’s Business Daily reported Wednesday that fast food chain Wendy’s will be expanding the use of self-service kiosks in response to the rising minimum wage:
Wendy’s said that self-service ordering kiosks will be made available across its 6,000-plus restaurants in the second half of the year as minimum wage hikes and a tight labor market push up wages.
It will be up to franchisees whether to deploy the labor-saving technology, but Wendy’s President Todd Penegor did note that some franchise locations have been raising prices to offset wage hikes
Other fast food chains are also experimenting with self-service kiosks. McDonalds has also made them available to stores.
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exactly
LOL we are spoiled.
To be fair to the Offspring, when faced with “What are these leftovers, anyway?” I’ll dine on wine and pretzels.
The best way to order fries.... Order fries with no salt! You will always get ‘cooked to order’, crisp, hot fries. I actually eat them w/o salt but you can always ask for a pack of salt.
I’ve got to tell my McD’s story. Ordered coffee at the drive through. When I got to the window, the girl gave me coffee, hash browns and something else. I said, ‘this isn’t what I ordered.” She said, “Just keep it.” I told her I didn’t want it and I wasn’t paying for it, I just wanted coffee. She said, “lady, you can give it to the birds, or throw it away, I don’t care, but I’m not taking it back.” Silly me, I tried to inform her that she worked for me, not the other way around and I wasn’t paying for it, so I put it on the ledge and she picked it up and pulled her arm back as though she was going to throw it at me. “Lady, this conversation is over,” she said. I said “Wanna bet?” Went into the restaurant to talk to the manager (also a kid), explained what had just happened and he gave me a “yeah, so?” response. Didn’t start my morning off very well.
You were most fortunate. We called it “The Fat Room.”
Nope.
Places where there are higher fixed prices, for example you have a franchise in an airport, are allowed to have higher prices.
Ok
I go to McDonalds maybe twice a year... I’m a calm, quite, shy person, but I probably would have had the same reaction as you did! ;)
Us, too, but the machines sold pastries, cookies, chips, etc.
I’m guessing you went thru the drive thru. Taste them before leaving and if cold
tell them you want hot fries.. They’ll cook a batch and you’ll have to pull over and
wait a few minutes for they will bring them out to your car.
Hows about selling them, hot all the time?
There is a concept
There is a concept
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Yep but as you found out that concept isn’t adhered to.
So test before leaving.
Prudent, prudent to test..
Okay, in a Wendy’s that takes care of 1-2 folks working the register. It doesn’t do anything for the 5-8 people back cooking food or manning the drive through, which probably isn’t ready for automation.>>>>. they got em. i figure they are still expensive but they exist. i’ve seen videos.
Being retired and new to the area where I’m living I began to go to a local McDs for an
afternoon coffee. As it turns out there are quite a few people that frequent McDs on a
regular basis. After a while you begin to notice things and one is that messed up orders
happen more than one would expect in both the drive thru and counter orders.
They'll probably hire employees to clean the robots. Don't expect them to switch to full kitchen automation right away. Too much risk of the whole thing malfunctioning during lunch. They'll introduce sandwich making machines that put the Big Macs together, but still have a backup guy and manual equipment set up in case it fails. Then they'll introduce a french fry bagging machine, a drink prep machine, and so on.
Only after each automatic preparation machine has been field tested for a few years will they go for full automation. Even then there will be a couple of minimum wage people to fix simple problems.
Us too, but one of the machines had these perfectly dreadful “entrees” such as hot dogs, burgers, burritos, and the very worst, chili. The buns would get all rubbery in the microwave.
And these were preferable to the “mystery meat” found in the cafeteria. So we ate out a lot.
It was not my happiest time!
I definitely remember “the meat dish” in the cafeteria! The meat dish with noodles. The meat dish with rice. The meat dish with tortillas. The only thing that ever sent me (and a lot of other people) to the clinic was the macaroni salad.
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