Carl’s Jr CEO wants to replace all human workers with robots

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[higgmeister]

Check out these Lakers Girls' uniforms with the Carl's Jr star logo belt buckle. When every surface has been covered, bodies become the last frontier for advertising. Baby steps towards Idiocracy. Baby steps.

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[EEGator]

[ameribbean expat]

“The person to person contact aspect is a thing of the past...”

Yeah, but learning to deal with people is exactly what’s missing in today’s ‘overeducated’ cohort. (For the record...McDonald’s,1985). Love seeing the high school kids bagging groceries and stocking the shelves. It ain’t where you start out...it’s where you end up.

[wally_bert]

I like this guy.

[married21]

People need human contact. There will probably be a counter-trend of restaurants where a good-looking person spoonfeeds you while others give you a massage and tell you how wonderful you are.

[dfwgator]

Now at Rental Car companies they have kiosks where you interact on a video with a live person, but they can be located anywhere.

[dfwgator]

People need human contact. There will probably be a counter-trend of restaurants where a good-looking person spoonfeeds you while others give you a massage and tell you how wonderful you are.

That will be Starbucks.

Pvt. Joe Bowers: Man, I could really go for a Starbucks, y'know?
Frito: I don't really think we have time for a h__djob, Joe.

[Hawthorn]

>> I guess he better ask Trump if he will permit this <<

Of course. All the workers laid off by Carl’s Jr. will be needed to staff the hundreds (or thousands?) of textile, shoe, toy, furniture, automobile and I-Phone factories that Mr. Trump will bring back to the USA from China and Mexico.

What’s more, Mr. Trump will also need to coerce a shift to robots by McDonald’s, Wendy’s, BK, Chipotle, Walmart, Sears, etc. — because their workers (and more) will likewise be needed to operate the many new factories to be opened by the Trump Administration’s Ministry of State Planning.

Just wait! The Trump Administration’s Five-Year Plans are gonna be so big, fantastic, so incredible, so terrific, so yuuge, so unbelievable that you’re gonna get tired of Five-Year Plans!

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Carl’s Jr CEO wants to replace all human workers with robots

If the food preparation is done by robots too, I'm all for it. They couldn't possibly do worse than some of the people who can't even assemble a cheeseburger without messing it up in fast food restaurants. Robots don't come out of the restroom with unwashed hands, they don't spit on food, they aren't going to drop food on the floor and then stick in in your meal, and are likely to result in more edible fast food with far fewer instances of food poisoning.

[married21]

LOL

[bert]

I know. the fact is that for a long time all three, real clerks, computer screens and phone aps will be functioning

Those in a hurry or bugged by lines will make the transaction with their phone ap.

[Hawthorn]

>> There will probably be a counter-trend of restaurants where a good-looking person spoonfeeds you while others give you a massage and tell you how wonderful you are <<

Such places have long existed. They are called Geisha Houses.

[r_barton]

I’m all for it. Robots don’t spit or tinkle in your food, or take baths in the restaurant sink. There have been videos of all of those events at various fast food establishments. Gak.

[Organic Panic]

Goo idea. Then, those idiots that cried for $15 an hour can still afford to eat at Carl’s Jr. when they are unemployed.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

The fools want their fiat wage rate which results in management seeking ways to lower labor costs. In some areas market forces should be allowed to govern-(in some areas NO!) Always judgment an attribute severely lacking in today's world.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Wonderful. Just open one in each city and watch how the customers are drawn to it. With no labor costs to speak of what do you think of the price direction?

[Robert A Cook PE]

Worse, once people “get used to” the “self-serve” methods, and the “self-serve” options (that don’t get screwed up) and the “not-really-conveniences” inconveniences of self-serving (like having to get your own drinks from a wet, spilled drink area) ... they will accept robot service in areas that “only” require a 8.00 or 9.00 dollar minimum wage.

[howlinhound]

Since people won’t be needed anymore, I can’t wait for the Soylent Green Burger..

[NormsRevenge]

They have a Green Burrito/Carls JR nearby.. Decent food.

Hold the hydraulic fluid, add a squirt of WD40..

Wave of the future?

[SunkenCiv]

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