Posted on 04/19/2016 7:06:06 PM PDT by writer33
Fast-food mega company McDonald’s has big plans for the future, and it doesn’t include $15-an-hour minimum wage order-takers. The futuristic McDonald’s will replace those entry-level workers with kiosks where customers can place their own order, according to a BizPac Review article.
The first model of the new 6,500 square-foot McDonald’s will be opened this summer in Missouri, and will include many new interactive features. In Chicago, the company is already experimenting with a self-serve coffee station again eliminating the need for workers.
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Can't wait for somebody to call 911 when the robot tells them they are out of Chicken McNuggets.
Build more prisons, and bring back public executions.
Will they be exempt from Obamacare coverage?
Maybe I should run as a democrat on a platform of charging an annual 'employee offset fee' on each machine that replaces a human. Order kiosks, ATMs, vending machines. I almost forgot Roobas. A whole new revenue stream. It's "for the children", you understand.
The country is being mismanaged and I don’t hold out a lot of hope that it will improve soon.
I would advise any high school graduate today to look in to a community college. Check out the stats on which degree has the greatest success in getting a graduate a job and go from there. A bachelor’s degree is not worth the time or money these days.
Mid-night basketball?
Against robot teams with lasers on their heads.
You foul, you die.
Robots can work 24/7 and don’t require health insurance, family leave or a 401K.
That’s exactly what I’m thinking of.
The economic result will be to divert the saved money from being invested by the company in new job producing enterprises to welfare income instead.
An economically devastating but politically rewarding outcome.
It’s questionable that you get much “human” interaction when you order fast food. About 50% of the time, I don’t get what I ordered. Just the other day, I ordered a salad with grilled chicken and ended up getting a plain salad - no chicken. I’ve gone through the drive through line on occasion and not gotten salad dressing or plastic utensils or straws. I’ve gotten Wendy’s chili that had only a few pieces of meat in it and a couple of beans. Quite often, I get black coffee when I order it with cream. What’s so hard to understand about coffee with two creams, please?
You shouldn’t have to pull everything out of the bag or open the lid on a cup of coffee and to make sure you got what you ordered, but you absolutely do! You’d think a “human” could accurately take and fill a simple one person order, but you’d be wrong.
I’ll take the robots because they’ve got to do better than the 1 out of 2 I’m currently experiencing.
Five Guys is the place for fries.
In an ironic way liberal policies often push industry innovation since businesses have to find better ways in order to survive. Fracking is a prime example.
automat returns.
It should be much more when they tear out the bathrooms to expand the eating area and redesign the service area to more economically locate the automation. They only have to record the phrase, "would you like fries with that" once.
No thanks. I've tried their fries...too greasy, and the food's too expensive. We had one here. It lasted less than 6 months. It's a Moe's now.
I was in Australia last year and they had these things. I don't know if it was a test market but they had a menu board that you entered your order onto and they you waited until they called your number. There were still a lot of counter people because they were pouring coffee and the like so not sure how much it saves, there it seemed to just be to make it faster. But the tech exists and is in some McDonald's right now.
“Imagine how disgustingly filthy these kiosks will be, can’t stand touchscreens in retail settings, yuck.”
What you will see is a display with pictures/pricing of the items, then you can place the order from your android phone app or you speak to the order station without touching any kiosks. The order station will be either an automated computerized voice or a voice of a human working for far less than minimum wage in a foreign country thousands of miles away.
You then simply pay by waving your rf chipped credit/debit card (or EBT card).
I’ve largely boycotted fast food since Obama’s re-election (to strike back at his supporters working there), but I’d say 1/4 of my orders were wrong. Since I was ordering for myself on the way to work (and had my own drink), it usually worked out in my favor; I’d get other peoples’ orders with more food. Many of the imports working there (usually Hispanic) had a hard time understanding the word “two”; if I asked for two breakfast sandwiches they’d often put one up on the screen and give me a price for just one (at which point I’d have to stress it was TWO).
There is nothing “fast” about these places anymore except you can place your order faster; they added extra ordering lanes just as people ran out of money for their frankenfood, so you can order quickly then just sit and wait the same amount of time anyway.
A few years ago a local big chain convenience store went with a novel bracero/computer hybrid to replace their American workers making sandwiches. Whereas before you spoke directly to a middle-aged American woman when ordering your sandwich (and she either made it herself or another was making them while she took orders), now you enter the specifics of your sandwich on a touchscreen and a Hispanic import on the other side reads a screen on the other side and makes the sandwich. You enter in English; the other side probably just shows pictures (many Hispanics are functionally illiterate in SPANISH). The whole time there is no response to any questions, just nodding of the head and grunting; he hands you the wrapped sandwich and an Asian (usually Arab-type) who speaks some English rings you up at the register.
Americans are obsolete in many fields, and the number of those fields are growing; I see what happened in the tech field (Asian coolies replacing Americans) happening in the financial sector on the East Coast.
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