Posted on 12/09/2014 5:36:08 PM PST by outofsalt
It turns out that people aren't eating as many McHamburgers as they used to, which is a big problem if your business is all about slinging meat. So McDonald's is hoping the novelty of its "Create Your Taste" ordering kiosks will lure some customers back in. The machines will be installed in 2,000 of its US outlets by the end of 2015.
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Free market automation.
Artificial intelligence doesn’t unionize (yet...).
But hey, the Mc Rib is back!
Are they paying the kiosks a living wage?
not being able to order by touchscreen isn’t why i don’t eat mcdonalds products anymore. maybe they ought to really take a minute to learn why less folks are eating their stuff.
The Magic Question indeed. AI needs no Obamacare either!
Why should I pay for some minimum wage stooge to press the wrong buttons when I can press the wrong buttons myself?
This is just another step of eliminating more workers all together. Thanks you minimum wage
Can’t happen fast enough.
I don’t eat there often, but when I do I go to the cashier and say: “I’ll have a #1 Combo, with a small coke, small fries.”
And that kind of complicated ordering always seems to throw them into a tailspin. It’s beyond their intellectual capacity to figure out what to serve me.
Minimum wage my CPU! I don’t even need a lunch break.
Oh great, now the workers have hundreds of order options to screw up rather than the 25 or so they get wrong now.
But, I don't eat their products any less...
:-) /rim-shot
Two workers per shift; to restock the cooking robot and mop the bathrooms.
Why not do it in the Drive-Thru? Eliminate that first window and it’s employees. (around here...still young white kids working at their first job)
Thanks Obama. Now you’re even destroying the McJobs
I like it. That touch screen is making sure that $15.00 per hour will never happen. Stupid community organizers
“Have it your way....”
I guess they were purchased by Burger King.
Fast food nation meets minimum wage protests
Hey liberals!!!! nice Job Breaking, HERO...
/sarc
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NiceJobBreakingItHero
But for a limited time only. Which reminds me...
Please.. no crosstraining. No cleaning and restocking the robot, after just cleaning and restocking the restrooms. LOL!
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