[bert]

Cashiers are not needed when you buy the big mac meal on your phone.

Macdonalds has finally implemented the system in use in China for years. You get the Mcdonalsd ap, place the order. the ap takes payment from your credit card and pays mcdonalds. You show the transaction on your phone and get your food.

Theire is no”machine” there is a server in the cloud

[central_va]

The push for automation has nothing to s with the minimum wage. If anything the stagnant min wage proves this. Automation is happening regardless of wage.

[OldGoatCPO]

Most places are like that now. While my wife and I had COVID, my daughter would order food that way. She then showed up at the take out window and picked up the food. She had minimal contact with other people. There is a local coffee shop that when you utilize the drive through you can pay via your phone or use card and/or cash at what looks like an ATM machine. They never have more then 2 employees working as baristas at any time. Honestly, minimum wage jobs will disappear and that hurts the poorer classes of people. Around 2003, I knew a Mexican who was a shift manager at McDonald's. His whole family, kids and all worked there (they also worked for a landscaper in summer). The family pooled there earnings for a decent place to live in a community with good schools. That type of scenario will go away when an employer has to pay $15 per hour. Forcing an artificial wage increase will simple cause entry level jobs to disappear faster then they normally would have.