Posted on 09/18/2024 3:30:57 PM PDT by CFW
It's official! - Robots are replacing humans.
Chipotle restaurants in California have introduced two robots to replace human workers in an effort to slash labor costs in response to the state-mandated $20 minimum wage. The first robot called the "autocato" can peel, stone, and cut an avocado, and then turn it into guacamole in 26 seconds. The other robot dubbed the "digital makeline" has the ability to portion salads and bowls based on orders from the mobile app.
The robots are part of an automation push that Chipotle's executives think could reduce the number of employees and help lower rising labor costs, as reported by the Daily Mail. The machines are currently being used at restaurant locations in Huntington Beach and Corona del Mar.
The controversial $20 minimum wage hike signed into law by Gov. Newsom took effect on April 1, which immediately sparked mass layoffs and permanent business closures. Burger King and other chains have already reduced the number of cashiers by rolling out digital ordering terminals in their Golden State locations.
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Why didn't someone realize this would be the result?
A few days ago, there was an article in the LA Times, lamenting over the conditions in California. (I can't find the article now) The headline basically asked "Where is the GOP? Why aren't they helping solve the problems in our state?"
As we all know, the GOP (and especially conservative Republicans) has very little representation in most of the powerful cities in California. Their ideas and policies have been dismissed, their representatives voted out of office decades ago, and their criticisms against the Democrat's policies presented as racism, etc.
If you want a change in economic results, change your economic policies. Change the way you vote.
Chipotle? Well, I wouldn’t go so far as to call it “food.”
Why pay people to make crappy food when a robot can make perfectly equally crappy food?
never ate there. especially after people started getting sick there a while ago.
“Where is the GOP?”
The Jungle Primary system got rid of most of them. In a Jungle Primary, voters can pick any candidate, regardless of party, and the top two vote-getters will advance to the general election. Hence, you find two Democraps running against each other in the general.
It’s Califecal. Enough said.
You heard it here first. As the state loses money from people being laid off because of Newsom’s idiotic $20 wage watch him start taxing the hell out of robots to make up the difference.
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As of now, the average hourly wage for fast food workers in Los Angeles is around $21.331. Starting April 1, 2024, California’s new minimum wage law will ensure that fast food workers earn at least $20 per hour23. Is there anything else you’d like to know about wages or working conditions in Los Angeles?
Forcing a minimum wage increase on businesses will ALWAYS result in them cutting staff. Now fewer people are employed.
Thanks, dumocrats.
Next, the legislature will ban the use of robots for any job paying less than $100/hour.
What I would be curious to know is how they plan to manage the uptime. Pretty sure the average line person at Chipotle won’t be able to troubleshoot the PLC should it fail.
It’s basically a very repetitive task, so it does make sense to automate. Except what happens if the automation fails in the middle of a lunch rush. Hell, people can’t calculate the change you are owed back in their heads anymore.
These are appliances, not robots................
People are too inconsistent when making crappy food. A robot can repeat the process to make nearly identical crappy food time after time.
RE: Chipotle? Well, I wouldn’t go so far as to call it “food.”
Old stories like this:
Chipotle Mexican Grill Agrees to Pay $25 Million Fine to Resolve Charges Stemming from More Than 1,100 Cases of Foodborne Illness. 2020.
According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, more than 1,100 Chipotle customers fell ill from “adulterated” food between 2015 and 2018. Chipotle ultimately agreed to pay a $25 million fine and implement a comprehensive food-safety program to resolve criminal charges related to the incidents.
Sep 10, 2024
And these restaurant robots do not expect a 25% tip.
I was in Seattle recently where the minimum wage is around $20 per hour.
The restaurant food prices are about 40% higher than what I pay in Florida.
In the not so recent past waiters got paid a minimum wage of less than $10 per hour and made most of their money on tips.
Now, these waiters get $20 per hour to serve overpriced food and expect a 25% tip.
Even when they have a register/computer calculating the change, many times they screw up that transaction, too. Give a clerk a $10 bill and a $1 bill for a $5.95 order, and many will, after looking at the two bills for a bit, hand you back the $1 bill, key in the $10 bill like they are smarter than you, and give you the additional $4.25 in change. Some who manage to actually key in $11 are surprised at the outcome.
When literally millions of automobile industry workers and suppliers lost their jobs mostly due to Japanese and other competition but also to large amounts of automation, workers grimly joked in Michigan:
“If the bosses build robots to make all the cars and we lose our jobs they’ll have to get robots to drive them because we’ll be too broke to buy them.”
No one then thought of a new development years later:
Self driving cars. Autonomous vehicles. Even the People Mover (Detroit) type small commuter trains have no drivers.
Chipoltle is “Mexican food” for people who’ve never had real Mexican food.
A robot that can make a burrito properly would be a good development there.
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