Posted on 05/27/2015 5:14:50 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Well, we knew this was coming.
It only makes sense. Why pay an uneducated person with limited skills $15.00 per hour when you can spend a few grand on a couple machines to do the exact same job?
The Left, as usual, remains clueless to the fact that raising the minimum wage will harm more than it will help. Yet, the ignoramuses who continue to support this policy keep bloviating and pandering to anyone who will listen.
If Democrats aren’t the biggest threat to America right now I don’t know what is.
From IJReview:
Maybe you’ve seen the machines that dispense drinks at your favorite 5 Guys, or the iPad that takes your order at Chili’s and Applebee’s, or the machine that takes your order at Panera Bread.
At McDonald’s, they’ve combined a computerized kiosk with a brand new menu, and it appears to be a big hit around the cou
(Excerpt) Read more at youngcons.com ...
The CBC will now demand the outlawing of this technology.
“If Democrats aren’t the biggest threat to America right now I don’t know what is.”
People that elect them and other liberals like Mitch and JonBon.
Ha Ha. Don’t like your job, get a better one but don’t bite the hand that feeds you.
I hope it has lots of pictures for the illiterate crowd.
Once this starts, it just keeps going. When Burger Kings sees this, they’ll follow suit, then Wendy’s, then...
The others cannot afford not to.
I went to Gengis Grill a few months ago. They had a tablet on the table for ordering or you could do the traditional walk through the line.
McDonalds tried the order and pay kiosks at a few locations some years ago, but it didn’t seem to work well and the experiment was abandoned. I think I also saw them at a train station in Europe more recently.
One potential advantage of the kiosks is that they could be programmed to work in multiple languages. Imagine going to a fast food restaurant and being able to easily order in English.
McDonald’s orders 7,000 touchscreen kiosks to replace cashiers
By Michael Collado · May 18, 2011
McDonald’s recently added 64,000 people to its payroll in the United States, but job prospects in Europe for those so inclined to work in the fast food industry are looking pretty grim right about now. That’s because the fast food giant is poised to add touchscreen kiosks in more than 7,000 of its restaurants in Europe in effort to replace actual, human cashiers.
McDonald’s Europe President Easterbrook told the Financial Times (subscription required), via The Sydney Morning Herald, that the touchscreen kiosks should help speed up customer transactions up to three or four seconds. The European eateries currently serve about 2 million people per day; McDonald’s hopes it will get even more people to flock in through their doors.
http://www.neowin.net/news/mcdonalds-orders-7000-touchscreen-kiosks-to-replace-cashiers
As opposed to... what? Ebonics?
But it made them feel good about themselves, and that's really all that matters to the shallow, parochial libtards.
Meanwhile, for the rest of us, the surprise factor at this outcome is approximately 0.0000...
How delightful.....
I must say I have not been in a McDonalds in quite some time. Used to be the place to go for a hamburger and fries but there are so many decent places these days to get a good burger. Places like Red Robin, Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebees where you can sit at the bar and have a glass of beer with your burger like a real human being. Not to mention all those TVs showing highlights of sporting events.
You don't get that at McDonalds. And people seem to like working the bar in those places. They are friendly and always want to get you another beer when the one you got is getting empty. They also get tips.
For some reason, the minimum wage folks at the McDonalds are not tipworthy.
I look forward to a day when none of the people who hate me because of my skin color, nor believe they deserve artisan wages for constructing a half-assed burger ever touch or handle my food again.
Bring on the kiosks and robots!
Great, maybe now they can get back to .99 double cheeseburgers and .99 fries.
Remember the old adage:
Be careful what you wish for.
You might just get it.
Years ago I worked with a bunch of liberals and one Black Christian woman. The liberal trashed McDonalds, but the woman read him the riot act, because she’d worked at McDonalds. She told him how much she’d learned, the value of hard work, discipline, how she’d worked herself into a management position, how she’d saved money and went to school. I’ll never forget that conversation.
In light of that, I ask you. Do you really think that the left doesn’t know this? Do you think that the left is doing this without a plan? Do you think the left is stupid? They WANT people w/o skills, they want the dependents. They want chaos. They want to destroy. They know exactly what they’re doing, and they keep on doing it.
And the robot won’t spit in your hamburger, unless of course, they program it to do so.
Yeah I want to touch a greasy bugger, fecal and pee smeared touch screen before I eat...
As I wrote on more than one occasion, automation is beneficial to the customer. The processor in my computer was made by robots - humans are simply not capable of manufacturing the part. Will a sandwich made by a robot be better and safer than a sandwich made by a human on the lowest rung of the employment ladder? (Quite likely.) What will happen to unemployed sandwich makers? 1% of them will study how to maintain robots, and proceed to become managers of McD shops (one employee per shift.) The other 99% will have no job and will be fed by the society. Those in the old days were the exploration force that went and conquered faraway lands. Perhaps that remains a possibility, if someone wants to build an arcology in a desert, or an underwater city. An active person who wants to do things still can do things - far more complex things than sandwiches. It only takes a President and Congress who are smart, enthusiastic, and are true leaders of their country.
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