figure three order takes per shift times two shifts times 6000 = 36000 possibly cut lose... guess they'll have fun on their funemployment
If they can program a serverbot to make their chili and add cheese and onions to it,, I want one at home.
I don't think Bernie has ever worked manual labor for a living ?
I recall he got fired from an Israeli Socialist Kibbutz because he wanted to talk politics , rather than work.
But , other than exempt Government , has he ever worked an hourly job ?
We should have an amendment to the Constitution requiring anyone in public office to have completed economics course.
Unless the Law of Supply and Demand gets repealed, this is a lose, lose, lose solution.
Inevitable consequence.
It will still shock Democrats.
Less chance of someone spitting in my food
Who is doing their automation? A quick visit to their career page has no listing for software or hardware engineer.
Uncle Miltie (Milton Friedman) must somewhere smiling and laughing at Sanders and his clowns. Bernie would probably get his lunch handed to him big time in a head to head debate with Friedman, who, among other things, said that the minimum wage was one of the more racist things the Dumbocrats and their union friends imposed in modern times.
But automation will never catch on unless the machine can let me drive off with half of my order, like the human servers try to do.
Let’’s raise the minimum wage and automate politicians.
Automation is actually HOW you can pay $15 or even $20 an hour. E.g. you can pay ONE backhoe or bulldozer operator very high wages to do a job you could not do with minimum wage workers, or even slaves. Automation played a major role in ending slavery.
Government has no business in business.
Obamacare results in kids pulling their hair out trying to work two part-time jobs.
JC Penneys caters to a discrete, miniscule part of the public, their sales tank.
Colorado passes restrictive gun laws, Magpul moves.
Target invites freaks to its store, and shares and customers plummet.
“There’s somethin’ happenin’ here, what it is ain’t exactly clear.” Larry Liberal
That, sir, is a full-on lie.
One of the few repeatedly confirmed findings in the entire dismal science of economics is that artificially forcing by law a raise in the minimum wage when businesses are not financially flush enough to afford them will lead to a loss of jobs - if only ‘rats who love to prattle about their great respect for science would learn that fact.....
figure three order takes per shift times two shifts times 6000 = 36000 possibly cut lose... guess they'll have fun on their funemployment
I see this as the start to a gradual move towards fully automated drop-in mini-food factories to replace the kitchen staff of fast food restaurants.
I think the easiest thing to automate next is the french fry station. The Wendy’s chili pots should be easy to automate too, using automated dispensing equipment to fill the chili cups. Really, from a technical standpoint, all of this is quite feasible and I imagine automation of much, if not most, of these cooking operations is in development right now.
The only thing stopping automation deployment is economics, namely automated equipment won’t be deployed as long as the current manual equipment operated by employees is cheaper than deploying new automated equipment. Increasing minimum wages, obamacare and all the rest are simply accelerating the deployment of such automation.
It now looks like the tipping point has been reached for the ordering process. No doubt every fast food operation in the U.S. will be keenly observing Wendy’s experience with their ordering kiosks, and should they be a success, the entire industry will very quickly embrace that technology.
At some point I’m guessing the Libs will make this illegal.