Labor costs will go down, automation costs will go up.
So will unemployment.
All this complaining about the poor fast food joint owners.
If they can’t deal with the endless pool of low wage foreign laborers, why not just automate everything? This is not complex.
Make it like a bank, ya drive up, the automated voice tells ya to push the language preference button, then push some menu buttons and the drawer opens up full of burgeritos, all bagged up and ready to chew. That way you don’t need inside dining and all the messy liability that goes along with it.