Posted on 12/01/2016 7:19:43 AM PST by rktman
A former McDonald's CEO is laying the blame on the "Fight for $15" movement as for why the company is embracing automation in its restaurants. McDonald's will install self-serve kiosks in its restaurants around the country to replace human cashiers.
Lets start with automation. In 2013, when the Fight for $15 was still in its growth stage, I and others warned that union demands for a much higher minimum wage would force businesses with small profit margins to replace full-service employees with costly investments in self-service alternatives. At the time, labor groups accused business owners of crying wolf. It turns out the wolf was real.
Earlier this month, McDonalds announced the nationwide roll-out of touchscreen self-service kiosks. In a video the company released to showcase the new customer experience, its striking to see employees who once would have managed a cash register now reduced to monitoring a customers choices at an iPad-style kiosk.
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“not everyone can be a brainiac like you....some people have good work ethics but not the education or know how to do the brainiac jobs like you....”
Uh, “stupid people” as the ones demanding 15 dollars an hour and pricing themselves out of a jon.
My first job was working the grill at a McDonald’s 20 years ago, btw.
I can remember when I found myself in San Francisco in 1956, a store had an automated doughnut fried machine about the size of a popcorn machine, I don't recall ever seeing one since.
“For an average net profit of maybe $100,000/year while the taxpayers get stuck paying $500,000/year in benefits to the illegals via foodstamps, section 8, health care, government schools, law enforcement, prisons, drug deaths.”
There ya go.
P.S. That $500,000 includes taxpayers paying for supposed border patrol and immigration enforcement that still let’s millions of illegal aliens in ever year.
For a while, but not for long. Cashless society is inevitable, those Christians that could not see how it would be done now know, they don't even have to have a physical mark in their forehead or hand.
No,I don’t work at McDonald’s.
That’s great, everyone can touch that strep throat ridden kiosk and then get on to gobbling their meal to get whatever goo was on that glass screen, no thank you. (I don’t eat there anyway)
“Most days I place and pay for my coffee order through an app on my phone.”
Possibly the smartphone is the most useful invention ever. Having said that, I don’t have one. I’m old fashioned and cheap but I like them.
#98 They write checks for their hamburgers!! : )
I had a customer in the 80’s from Sweden who had an automated french fry machine.
They are coming no matter what we do unless we go full on luddite, even then it will only slow the inevitable.
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