I remember when self-serve gas first showed up. Everyone thought people would flood the ground because they couldn’t operate a pump, an folks would smoke and there would be fires ablaze everywhere... and all the engines would blow because no one would ever check the oil... and there would be accidents because no one would ever wash the windshield.
I like pop machines and if the food was good, I’d use a vending machine any day.
Millennials afraid to interact with humans at a burger joint. That was the precious take-away I got.
“Open the cash register and hand me all the cash! Or I will shoot you!”
I’m sorry, I cannot do that, Dave.
I hope the CEO of Carl’s knows of the Three Laws Of Robotics. Really four.
Robotics > Ebonics
Carl's Jr. CEO Wants to Open a Robot Restaurant Free of Human WorkersWho's stopping him?
Chipotle wishes they had thought of this a year ago. Keeping people in the process has cost them their good name and billions of dollars.
Is he going to teach the robots to buy his product?
I would not go. People are who buy your shit. If you don’t want workers, why should we frequent your business.
So do it and see how it works.
I don’t want this because the only socializing I do is with the girls at fast food joints (nice girls, here).
Would that include Hardee’s?
The fast food workers here in Hurst, TX are awesome. Don’t know what it is but they are friendly and efficient. None of the “I’m just passing through, pal” baloney. Yet they don’t seem like losers who won’t go on to better things, either. They get a robotization waiver per moi.
Sooo... he means he wants to open an Automat ?
Hasn’t that been done ?
Leftist economics have severely reduced the number of real jobs, or given them to non-Americans. Burger flipping is now the only job left that is open to out of work people. After replacing those jobs with robots, there will be very few people earning a salary. Where will be customers come from?
Will the only people working be lawyers and politicians? Who will pay their salaries? other lawyers and politicians?
Picking food up from automated “cubbies” I assume that means some kind of cubbyhole.
Everything old is new again. Something like this was done in NYC in the 30s or 40s. It was called the Automat and several of them were still operating in the 50s when I visited NYC. You went down a line like a buffet line and picked your food out of ‘cubbies’ that dispensed prepared dishes not unlike a candy vending machine.
So long as they are US made robots (/s) I’m good with this. Let’s pretend we can have a successful economy without imports. What will prevent the corporations from mechanizing and robotizing away all the imagined job creation that supposed to happen? Isn’t the goal of limiting imports to create good paying jobs?
Got it. We need to ban the importation of robots. Of course building and exporting robots would be good just so long as we make sure all those robots do not stay in the country illegally.