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.
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.
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
Looks like another starter job is going away soon. By this time next year, McDonald’s counter worker can be added to Gas station attendant, Elevator operator, Car hop, Bellboy and a host of starter jobs, mostly for high school kids that are gone, gone, gone.
My first job while in high school was an island attendant at a Sohio Gas Station. Which is also history.
If this new setup means the workers will walk over to my table and bring me the food I ordered, I hope they don’t now expect me to give them a tip, like a real restaurant. No Tips!
Bingo!
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The background for the onslaught of forthcoming candor is the financial performance of McDonald's.
It reported href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/12/08/mcdonalds-same-store-sales-fried/20087793/" target="_blank">steeper-than-expected falls in same store sales, according to USA Today. Same store sales
is a retail measure of how popular a company remains with consumers. On Monday, the company noted
the biggest same store drops in a decade. That was even more than the biggest-in-a-decade drops reported in October,
as Daily Finance reported.
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I hope hand sanitizer is available after using one of those touch screens. You’ve no idea where other people’s fingers have been, and do you really want to handle your food after using a publicly available touch-screen?!
And when the robot chef takes over I won’t have to send my McMuffin back for being burnt anymore.
Yes but can I order a Big Mac with quarter pounder meat and extra sauce?