Posted on 04/30/2024 5:04:32 AM PDT by Cronos
In response to recent minimum wage increases in California, fast food restaurants across the state are shifting to automation to get rid of wage-earning humans.
The move to making customers place orders at digital kiosks alleviates what owners say is the financial strain of rising labor costs after the minimum wage for the state’s fast food workers increased on April 1 from $16 to $20 per hour.
Harsh Ghai, a Burger King franchise owner who manages 140 outlets along the West Coast, is leading the transition to automation. He plans to introduce digital kiosks across all his restaurants within months — a drastic acceleration from his original timeline of five to 10 years.
...Rather than make less money, restaurant owners are exploring alternative strategies to maintain profitability. Reducing staff numbers appears to be their primary solution for lowering overheads.
“Undoubtedly we will lose some people. There’s no way around it. If we continue to maintain our current menu pricing and absorb higher labor costs, 100% of our restaurants won’t be profitable,” Ghai said. “We can’t raise menu prices because that will hurt traffic and we’ve already seen in the media the backlash from customers having to pay more for burgers because of food price inflation.”
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I would absolutely trust automation to making my food instead of others who have a grudge against an entire race.
My friends and I went to a cafeteria in college and the workers gave ‘others’ more than double the amount we got - not that we wanted more but the discrepancy was obvious. I worked in fast food in high school and I had never even thought about taking away/giving more to anyone based on anything but I guess reparations come through many means. Seeing some videos where fast food people take out their hatred on people through food has sworn me off it all except for Jersey Mike’s and Chick Fil A.
My first job, delivering the Courier Express in Buffalo. Had to get them delivered by 6:30 am
Bought my first bike, and Hardy Boys books. Great life lessons
Finally all these yutes get some relief from having to slave long hours for some rich greedy business owners and can now spend more quality time with their families...
Fast Food, Newspaper stuffing and delivering, lots and lots of menial labor jobs, construction jobs,... the list is endless, were ALL DONE by High School kids and those just getting out of school when I grew up. It all changed to Adult Illegal Alien illiterate peasants for the most part starting in the 80’s.
>Get more and more people dependent upon government money - EBT, SNAP
You misspelled ‘taxpayer’s (OTHER People’s $’)
I, for one, harken the return of trad/barter-ing. There’s ALWAYS a black-market for ANYTHING.
The minimum wage is always $0.
Ate at an automat in NYC in the 60s.
You are correct, sir.
(EBT, SNAP
You misspelled ‘taxpayer’s (OTHER People’s $’))
Yeah
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As a result, employees are being laid off or given fewer hours. Kiosks have no health benefits or sick leave/personal time off.
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I don’t expect it to, but I’d LOVE to see, the push-back vs. govt.
Employees pushing to get their insurance/HSA+ THEMSELVES, owned by THEM, w/ the same tax benefits the employers enjoy.
Course, govt doesn’t enjoy the pleebs being SELF sufficient in any shape, matter or form. Gives ‘em too many ‘ideas’
And the prices are still as high as employee only stores.
The purpose of a business is to make a profit
Elites: Get rid of humans then there is no need for food.
In Poland McDonald’s has a different strategy from their US strategy - they aren’t the cheapest places to eat here, so they have clean, airy, safe eating areas at strategic transportation node points.
And they have been using kiosks for nearly a decade - nearly everyone uses them and the cashier desks are mostly not (wo)manned and with no queues.
That’s the same for the KFCs and Burger Kings here.
conservative universities need to use robots with conservative AI lectures as professors
There are food delivery jobs (doordash, Ubereats etc. etc.)
Automats failed because they had fixed coin payments while fast food joints had more flexibility.
however with credit cards that is no longer an issue.
It does make some sense - the cooks can make a limited menu and fill the boxes based on demand
Do they have McPierogi?
I visit McDonalds about once a year. The last time I stopped in, I encountered those machines. No visible humans. I walked out and stayed hungry.
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