Love that movie...
Posted on 03/20/2016 10:56:41 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Eatsa, the mostly automated healthy, fast food bowl shop based in San Francisco, has inspired the CEO of Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s to rethink the traditional workforce—by replacing all humans with robots.
...CEO Andy Puzder told Business Insider. "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."
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The CEO acknowledges that it may be some time before Carl’s Jr is people-free as it would take a pretty sophisticated machine to handle all the nuances of their kitchen. Even at Eatsa, while the ordering process is 100 devoid of any pesky human interaction, live workers behind the scenes still assemble bowls.
But Puzder says he sees automation fulfilling “rote tasks like grilling a burger or taking an order”—areas in which a robot would probably be more precise than a human.
And while older customers may take some time to adapt to interacting with a faceless platform, Puzder says the coveted millennial market actually prefers as little social interaction as possible when it comes to ordering food.
"Millennials like not seeing people," said the CEO. "I've been inside restaurants where we've installed ordering kiosks ... and I've actually seen young people waiting in line to use the kiosk where there's a person standing behind the counter, waiting on nobody."
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Is he going to start advetising with robots too?
At least robots will not spit in your food if they do not like your skin color.....
“Carl’s Jr. ____ You, I’m Eating.”
perhaps only robots will eat there then-
Maybe
Brawndo has what plants crave
-—”Millennials like not seeing people,” said the CEO. “I’ve been inside restaurants where we’ve installed ordering kiosks ... and I’ve actually seen young people waiting in line to use the kiosk where there’s a person standing behind the counter, waiting on nobody.”-—
I take it this is the result of millennials always having their face in the smart phone and/or ipad. The result is they have almost no social skills.
I also take it being this way makes them more malleable by the Communists.
If robots replace dirty human hands demanding 15.00 per dollar wages for 4.00 per hour work ethics ....
Love that movie...
OK. But not for the commercials.
Might as well. The extremely few times I’ve been to one there didn’t seem to be any human activity.
one of unintended consequence of demanding $15 minimum is the accelerated automation of fast food work. Even if the $15 never becomes law, the path towards eliminating hundred of thousands of entry level fast food jobs is now moving apace.
I understand why they would robotize some areas. I would not want all fast food outlets to only operate via robots though.
Guess what? I like having direct contact with other people when I leave my home. The contact,a smile here, a remark there, adds to the experience. I’m still smarting over losing access to my teller at the bank for most of my transactions.
——And while older customers may take some time to adapt to interacting with a faceless platform,——
What the man doesn’t realize is that his plan is already obsolete. There will be no faceless platforms. They do exist at sheetz but they will be done in by aps and bots
There will be an ap for your I phone that is known to your phone. The ap is able to call up what are being called bots. Every food business will have it’s bot. the ap summons the bot that presents a menu from which you order and are provided a receipt. When you order is ready, you show your phone with the receipt and get your food.
Presently in China there are several aps and payment systems and lots and lots of bots and millions of users. In one specific case cited, the ap is pointed to a graphic on the eatery wall and calls up the bot.
We are behind in this technology
Source:Forbes
Which means that the robots are going to need to be supplied, they will need regular service, they will still break down, and get hacked in imaginative ways, which means that all new jobs are going to be invented :)
The minimum wage business may be speeding it up, but it’s coming anyway.
Somehow I can’t imagine Carl Karcher wanting his name
associated with this brave new world.
On the other hand I recall my first regular job as a 16 yr
old in `67. It was behind a small grocery store meat
counter. The first thing the boss taught me was to ask
the customer “is there anything else I can get for you?”
The idea was to encourage customers to buy more or to
jog their memories about an item they had considered
purchasing. The fast food chain stores operate on
a ‘get them in and get them out’ basis and that is the
way corporate wants it. The person to person contact
aspect is a thing of the past anyway so total automation
seems like the logical next step.
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