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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“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.
I like this guy.
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.
Now at Rental Car companies they have kiosks where you interact on a video with a live person, but they can be located anywhere.
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.
>> 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!
LOL
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.
>> 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.
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.
Goo idea. Then, those idiots that cried for $15 an hour can still afford to eat at Carl’s Jr. when they are unemployed.
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?
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.
Since people won’t be needed anymore, I can’t wait for the Soylent Green Burger..
They have a Green Burrito/Carls JR nearby.. Decent food.
Hold the hydraulic fluid, add a squirt of WD40..
Wave of the future?
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