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Picture: Hardee’s Restaurant Installs “Self Order Stations”
Young Conservatives ^ | 20 Apr 16 | Andrew Mark Miller

Posted on 04/21/2016 6:16:47 AM PDT by xzins

A little while back we told you about how the CEO of Hardees/Carl’s Jr. was thinking about replacing employees with machines thanks to the ridiculous minimum wage hike to $15.

Well, it appears he has done it.

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It was only a matter of time before this started to happen and you can expect to see more of this in the future.



TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 15dollarsanhour; 15hour; automation; bluezones; disintermediation; economy; fastfood; hardees; layoffs; minimumwage; replacement; technology
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To: Kellis91789

I think it was an Applebees. They had a tablet at the table that you could punch your order in and pay with. It was sitting at the table - it had a game or something on the screen. After the waiter had taken our order I asked him what the tablet thing was.

“Oh - you can order with that - but nobody does.”

IIRC they wanted a $1 to play some game on it while you wait for your food. I wonder how many kids with games on their phones would play it?


141 posted on 04/21/2016 10:22:54 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: 21twelve

My local Chili’s restaurants have those on the tables — called Ziosk. They only allow reordering of drinks you’ve ordered before plus appetizers, I think, but it does allow credit card swipe payment. A phone app would mean not having to touch their tablet, which may be germ covered, and could have a full menu.


142 posted on 04/22/2016 12:07:59 AM PDT by Kellis91789 (We hope for a bloodless revolution, but revolution is still the goal.)
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To: Kellis91789

Yep. It’s just a matter of time. And if restaurants are designed a little differently, say with some kind of discreet conveyor system, you won’t even need a waiter to deliver the food to the table, and only minimal bus staff to do the cleanup.

These idiots better watch that they don’t price themselves right out of existence.


143 posted on 04/22/2016 5:38:02 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: IronJack
Yep. It’s just a matter of time. And if restaurants are designed a little differently, say with some kind of discreet conveyor system, you won’t even need a waiter to deliver the food to the table, and only minimal bus staff to do the cleanup.

If that were to happen the elites would still go out and eat in a human staffed restaurant. They aren't going to do robo food service.

144 posted on 04/22/2016 5:42:06 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: cherry
or would so many just want them to be lazy at home and live off SSDI.????

No. I would rather they learn to fix those machines. Get an education, get rid of the face metal and tattoos and join the rest of normal society.

145 posted on 04/22/2016 5:47:25 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Hulka

Put a protective, disposable film over the screens, kind of like the film that covers a new cell phone screen. Change them out once an hour, or as needed.

I didn’t know conservatives were such germ-phobes.


146 posted on 04/22/2016 5:49:32 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: central_va

Restaurants don’t make their money on “the elites.”. They make it on Joe Average and family, and he is cost-conscious enough to forgo the dubious pleasure of some intrusive waiter if it means he can feed the family for half the cost.


147 posted on 04/22/2016 5:55:53 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: IronJack
half the cost.

Where do you get that figure? Have you ever run a restaurant? Do you know what labor costs a restaurant? It averages 20%-30% of all costs. Increasing labor by 40% doesn't increase it's overall cost that much. Get real.

148 posted on 04/22/2016 6:05:02 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

I didn’t say they COULD get the meal at half the cost. I said I suspected they would forgo the wait staff IF ... I repeat ... IF ... they could get it that cheaply.

My point, that you so obtusely chose to sidestep, is that the average diner is more concerned with cost than with interacting with waiters.


149 posted on 04/22/2016 6:40:45 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: IronJack
the average diner is more concerned with cost than with interacting with waiters.

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It certainly is at a fast-food restaurant.

150 posted on 04/22/2016 7:34:53 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: xzins


151 posted on 04/22/2016 7:51:20 AM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING ’VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: xzins

Only the slackers like the $15.00 an hour automated is good.


152 posted on 04/22/2016 8:24:40 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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To: xzins

It could help to avoid this situation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-e1Hxy_kQU

Fast Food Drive Thru - by Stevens and Grdnic


153 posted on 04/22/2016 8:28:11 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: ontap
And...they don’t spit on your food!!!

One less to do a "crappy" job of hand washing.

154 posted on 04/22/2016 8:31:36 AM PDT by Stentor
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To: IronJack

Post 118.


155 posted on 04/22/2016 11:59:02 AM PDT by Hulka
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To: Gaffer

I love it too. The only thing that would make it better is full automation. That way nobody to blame but ourselves for screw ups.


156 posted on 04/22/2016 12:00:36 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: xzins

Frankly I’m amazed how slowly quick service has adopted this tech... its been in place in larger convenience stores for years now... Sheetz, Wawa, etc...


157 posted on 04/22/2016 12:02:48 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: dhs12345

Yes, MRSA darned near killed me. Even the wife and docs had the end-of-life discussion.

It is a serious illness and forever compromised my immune system.

Too many people have no idea about the illness and what it can do to your ability to fight the nasty ‘bugs’ and such that accumulate on publicly shared items.


158 posted on 04/22/2016 12:05:04 PM PDT by Hulka
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To: Hulka
I’ve discovered through class discussions that most students can’t make change,

Of course sometimes that can work to your advantage. ;)
Steve Martin - The Absent-Minded Waiter

159 posted on 04/22/2016 12:11:30 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

LOL


160 posted on 04/22/2016 1:08:16 PM PDT by Hulka
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