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To: E. Pluribus Unum
The CBC will now demand the outlawing of this technology.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
“If Democrats arent the biggest threat to America right now I dont know what is.”
People that elect them and other liberals like Mitch and JonBon.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Ha Ha. Don’t like your job, get a better one but don’t bite the hand that feeds you.
4 posted on
05/27/2015 5:17:26 PM PDT by
Fungi
To: E. Pluribus Unum
I hope it has lots of pictures for the illiterate crowd.
5 posted on
05/27/2015 5:18:03 PM PDT by
BBell
(Cult of the Sacred Drunken Wookiee)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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.
6 posted on
05/27/2015 5:23:55 PM PDT by
Paulie
(America without Christianity is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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.
7 posted on
05/27/2015 5:24:04 PM PDT by
PAR35
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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.
8 posted on
05/27/2015 5:25:25 PM PDT by
PAR35
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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
9 posted on
05/27/2015 5:31:11 PM PDT by
JoeProBono
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
The Left, as usual, remains clueless to the fact that raising the minimum wage will harm more than it will help. 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...
11 posted on
05/27/2015 5:36:58 PM PDT by
ThunderSleeps
(Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
To: E. Pluribus Unum
It really does matter what type of glass you drink wine from. For example, I'm in a hotel room and open a bottle of wine but did not pack any stem wine glasses. So I'm using one of the allegedly clean water glasses and the wine just does not taste the same. Yet cold ice water tastes okay.
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.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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!
14 posted on
05/27/2015 5:39:00 PM PDT by
spodefly
(This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Great, maybe now they can get back to .99 double cheeseburgers and .99 fries.
15 posted on
05/27/2015 5:39:52 PM PDT by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Remember the old adage:
Be careful what you wish for.
You might just get it.
16 posted on
05/27/2015 5:51:47 PM PDT by
Iron Munro
(We may be paranoid but that doesn't mean they aren't really after us)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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.
17 posted on
05/27/2015 5:54:24 PM PDT by
Ge0ffrey
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Kiosks will be actually better for the customer as well. The language was already mentioned. This will be particularly handy for deaf, blind, mute customers, as a computer is far better in talking to them than a random cashier. But there are other benefits. How many cashiers know calorie value of all their food and can add it up for you? How many cashiers are happy when you select some food then remove it, and select some other? How happy would be the line behind you when you need time to review the menu or to pay? How happy you would be if you can press three buttons in three seconds, but a cashier takes three minutes to do the same because he is constantly distracted?
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.
20 posted on
05/27/2015 5:59:22 PM PDT by
Greysard
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Minimum-wage increase proposals are NOT about minimum wages.
It's about UNION wages (read government employees mostly) and UNION DUES.
Like
"Artie" on another thread wrote.
"but my theory is thatthis is one of the foundations of single payer.
Down the road, as single payer replaces ObamaCare,all healthcare workers will become in essence government employees.Think about how many thousands of new, dues paying union members will magically become part of the SEIU.
Barry had sealed this deal with Andy Stern years ago.
Barry promised Andy and the SEIU thousands of new members,Andy saysgreat,
this is the wage structure we needso we can pay the slush fund.
Gotta pay a living wage to all of the new union membersso dues can be extracted
and kickbacks to the dems can be made.
Its convolutedbut what dem scheme isnt,especially when large sums of cash are involved?"
So read the following:
Union Support Of Minimum Wage Hike Is Self-Interested
Mary Kay Henry, president of the Service Employees International Union, ... was quick to emphasize that her organization's support of a more-than-twofold increase in the minimum wage was "not about growing unions."
This may be true but it's also undeniable that such a move would have a profound impact on growing union paychecks, even if those unions don't count a single minimum-wage employee in their ranks.
The fine print can be found in union contracts. Each year, the Department of Labor's Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS) releases a number of union collective bargaining agreements (CBAs).
Unsurprisingly, many CBAs available in the OLMS database LINK union salaries and wage rates to the federal minimum wage. There are a number of methods that unions use to accomplish this end. The two most popular appear to be setting baseline union wages as a percentage above the minimum wage, and mandating a flat wage at a set level above the minimum wage.
One example is a series of CBAs signed with the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE). Their contracts mandated that"(w)henever the federal legal minimum wage is increased, minimum wage (in the agreement) shall be increased so that each will be at least fifteen (15%) percent higher than such legal minimum wage."
There's also an SEIU local's contract, which ordered that"(t)he minimum hourly wage rates shall exceed any statutory applicable minimum wage rate by 50 cents."
Some unions have also arranged contracts where the employer MUST renegotiate their contracts in case of a minimum-wage hike, NO MATTER HOW LONG is left on the pact's life span.
The possibility for abuse here is staggering:Unions with average wages WELL ABOVE the minimum wage CAN INSERT such clauses into their contracts, FORCING negotiations in industries not otherwise affected by a wage hike.
Given the limited number of CBAs available in the OLMS database, it's impossible to determine just how widespread this practice is.
But at least one union has trumpeted this arrangement as "one of the many advantages of being a union member."
Earlier this year on its blog, the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union proudly boasted that "oftentimes, union contracts ARE TRIGGERED TO IMPLEMENT WAGE HIKES IN CASE OF MINIMUM WAGE INCREASES."
This is a stunning admission of SELF-INTERESTt for an organization that's actively PUSHING minimum-wage hikes at both the state and federal levels of government.
It also raises questions about unions' growing use of nonunion "worker centers" like the Restaurant Opportunities Center, OUR Walmart, Fast Food Forward and other organizations that have made headlines in recent months.
These groups advocate many policies that would affect those businesses that pay a minimum wage restaurants, retailers, etc. and a minimum-wage hike is often the FIRST demand that these union front groups make. This only casts further suspicion on the motives of the labor unions funding these groups.
No matter how you look at it, the benefits that these unions stand to reap from a minimum-wage hike should raise questions about their real motives and whether they're only manipulating the debate over fast-food wages for their own benefit.
Berman is the executive director at the Center for Union Facts.
23 posted on
05/27/2015 6:05:45 PM PDT by
Yosemitest
(It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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. They are not clueless, and they are not stupid. They know what will happen.
They want the underclass to have no way out of welfare dependency.
28 posted on
05/27/2015 6:20:41 PM PDT by
PapaBear3625
(You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Slowly raising minimum wage to 15/hr slowly over 5 years might be a good idea. But not in one step.
29 posted on
05/27/2015 6:25:59 PM PDT by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
You can go to the supermarket and buy Ball Park precooked hamburgers that are flash frozen. You microwave them for 90 seconds and it is the best hamburger.
No reason why a machine cannot heat them up in a McDonalds along with some fries and place them in a bag for you to pick up. Drive thru would be a chute into your car : )
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