I thought the lunatic libs said a $15 minimum wage wouldn’t cost jobs. Liberalism is based entirely on emotion.
Surprise!
Oh my...unintended consequences! Increasing the minimum wage helps poor people by giving them less jobs. Democrat logic, not mine.
Wendy’s is going to need to invent a robot to scrape up the burger patties that fall on the floor and toss them into the chili pot.
Ironically most of the fired employees will be Progressive Millenial useful idiots that supported the wage hike.
Welcome to Reality, punks.
I work in a fine dining restaurant-not affected yet. The rumors are that we are about to be replaced with iPads at every table. They will keep the young and cute servers (who usually get lower tips than the experienced servers) to run food and let the rest of us go. When a long time server said something about it affecting tips, the manager stated, “You’re not a doctor, you don’t need to be making $30 an hour.”
No one here wants minimum wage to go up as it only means less money for us. As it goes up, people can expect service to go down.
Sheetz already does this. They’re in PA and perhaps elsewhere. People make the food (and it’s pretty good) but the ordering is all done through a computer terminal. Fast and efficient, with no “language problem” from the cashier.
Cost of talent?
I see middle aged men with degrees struggling for pay in the tech sector.
Effa burger flippers
of course
bump
We have two convenience chains in the Carolina’s that use these kiosks. Sheetz has a decent menu and I can get a cheeseburger on toasted white bread with all the fixins’ imaginable.
System works very well.
“At the NRA Show in May, for instance, Hudson Riehle, head of the research and knowledge group at the National Restaurant Association, noted that restaurants average $84,000 in sales per worker. By comparison, grocery stores average $304,000. And gas stations average $855,000.”
Well, that’s interesting. A clever bit of sophistry; but, interesting.
The models don’t support direct comparisons. The true measure is GROSS MARGIN per worker. The gross margins in the restaurant business are notably higher (as a percent of sales revenue) than in grocery or gasoline.
The “talent” pool remains untapped because it’s collecting free food stamps, subsidized housing, Obamaphones and Obamacare while sitting at home binge-watching soft porn TV like Game of Thrones and Orange is the New Black.
Who with a brain didn’t see this coming? This is the future of all fast food operations that want to survive and make a profit.
Next Up For Robotic Automation: Serving Pizza Untouched By Human Hands
I suspect they have various prototype kiosks now. All the needed is a easy to use UI for the cusimter in a touch screen and credit card and bill/coin reader in a case that matches their decor, and one cashier to watch them.
Someone at the Taco Bell drive through still as to ask the customer, “Hottamayasaw.” (Translation available)
Five guys has only one order taking employee. Most orders are sent in Directly by customers using their computers or smart phones. And, you can have light, medium, or heavy amounts of over 15 condiments and additives _ you get your burger exactly fixed the way you want it. And it’s ready when you arrive - no waiting - thy just greet you, babe you your stuff, and you leave in less then thirty seconds.
This article explains that for those living to a great degree on welfare and trying to get off (those the $15/hr proponents allege sympathy for) face a devastating blow when their pay exceeds about $12/hr. At around $12/hr, that earned income plus all the entitlement handouts they're entitled to equates to about $38/hr of straight earned income. That means that above $12/hr, they have to push their earned income to over THREE TIMES that _just_ to break even and enjoy the same standard of living! $15/hr is the cliff where they are starting to suffer notable reduction in total income, and just before total income crashes, bottoming out around $18/hr where they lose almost all entitlements.
Ya know, occurs to me that the $15/hr wasn't just picked at random as a nice round number evoking "fairness", it really is the highest minimum wage can be pushed before direct beneficiaries of such legislation would go "HOLY $#!^ WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO MY INCOME YOU STUPID *****?!?!?" duly attacking those Leftists who got it legislated. As others note, it really isn't about minimum wage per se, it's about jacking up higher salaries indexed to that minimum - and $15/hr is as far up as that can be driven. The evil at work here is staggering.