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Posted on 03/25/2016 11:17:04 AM PDT by TroutStalker
Consumer preferences, reduced technology costs and government policies that increase labor costs are driving a trend toward automation in the restaurant business. If you make something more convenient and less expensive, it tends to catch on.
As recently as the 1960s, gas-station employees would rush to fill your car’s tank, wash the windows, check the oil and put air in the tires. Telephone operators made your long-distance calls and bank tellers cashed your checks. Those jobs now are either gone or greatly diminished.
Today, we reduce jobs whenever we shop on Amazon instead of our local retail outlet, use an Uber app rather than calling a cab dispatcher, order a pizza online, use an airport kiosk to print boarding passes, or scan groceries. Each of these changes in behavior has increased convenience and reduced labor costs—and competitive businesses pass the savings to their customers.
In the restaurant business, the increasing impact of technology doesn’t mean that a robot will soon roll up to your table and say, “Hi, I’m Trudi4783. I’ll be your automated server today.” But technology can replace certain functions. Touch screens are already transforming the way food is ordered in many restaurants.
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It can work one of three ways:
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The fourth possible outcome is that machines just produce such a bounty of stuff so cheaply, people completely stop worrying about what we’ve come to know as an economy.
A fifth outcome is that the sexbot they give me has me so busy hitting it that I don’t care about anything any more.
Competition for post of the day has officially closed...
Direct result of minimum wage, obamacare and union organizing. Caesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers union campaigning ‘for the good of farm workers’, made it ‘economical’ to use tomato picking machines.
Good news for my shop. I just finished up my second PLC packaging machine. It shouldn’t be so hard to adapt that to burger making.
I for one would welcome paying a little more at the gas station for someone to check my oil, wash my front windows, check the air in my tires and pump my gas. Would suspect if stations would begin again to offer the option of full service enough people would take advantage of it to make it profitable.
Served as a great employment opportunity for high school kids when my son was in school. Of course back them parents made sure that their kids who drove knew how to maintain a car. Today’s kids probably not so much.
Policies that encourage low skilled people not to work has this effect. They stop working and take handouts. Those with good jobs continue to receive normal wage increases.
So the party that continues to go on and on about the “growing divide” are the ones guilty of creating it in the first place, driving more voters to their corner. It is by design.
Automation is the ultimate Chinaman.
You can spend every waking minute hitting ugly women.
Break-even point for fast food (a la McDonalds) kitchen full automation is somewhere around $10 - in other words, the point at which the bots and maintenance thereof cost the same as a human worker does per year.
The Dems want (and in some places have gotten) a $14-15 or higher minimum wage.
Do the math.
Additionally, a bot will never spit in your shake, wank on your burger, deliberately spread disease all over your fries or give you a cold. And they’re far more consistent about cooking your food.
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You are assuming it is not a gay robot.
So there IS a bright side to this.
Or not enough of the right color machine.
There are already several of that kind of automated system going into production now, in the era of the $15 minimum wage.
I remember reading back in the 1980s, before the rise of ubiquitous cell phones, that if the phone technology of that time (1980s) was the technology of the 1940s, that it would take every female in the country to be telephone operators simply to keep the phone conversations connected.
Oh, and where we were stationed in Japan in the 60s, it took $3 a minute, 24 hours advance notice, and at least three operators (Japanese, LD, and Pennsylvanian), to have a conversation with our Philly-suburb family, and that was when base gas was 15 cents a gallon.
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