Why didn't someone realize this would be the result?
A few days ago, there was an article in the LA Times, lamenting over the conditions in California. (I can't find the article now) The headline basically asked "Where is the GOP? Why aren't they helping solve the problems in our state?"
As we all know, the GOP (and especially conservative Republicans) has very little representation in most of the powerful cities in California. Their ideas and policies have been dismissed, their representatives voted out of office decades ago, and their criticisms against the Democrat's policies presented as racism, etc.
If you want a change in economic results, change your economic policies. Change the way you vote.
Chipotle? Well, I wouldn’t go so far as to call it “food.”
Why pay people to make crappy food when a robot can make perfectly equally crappy food?
“Where is the GOP?”
The Jungle Primary system got rid of most of them. In a Jungle Primary, voters can pick any candidate, regardless of party, and the top two vote-getters will advance to the general election. Hence, you find two Democraps running against each other in the general.
It’s Califecal. Enough said.
You heard it here first. As the state loses money from people being laid off because of Newsom’s idiotic $20 wage watch him start taxing the hell out of robots to make up the difference.
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As of now, the average hourly wage for fast food workers in Los Angeles is around $21.331. Starting April 1, 2024, California’s new minimum wage law will ensure that fast food workers earn at least $20 per hour23. Is there anything else you’d like to know about wages or working conditions in Los Angeles?
Forcing a minimum wage increase on businesses will ALWAYS result in them cutting staff. Now fewer people are employed.
Thanks, dumocrats.
Next, the legislature will ban the use of robots for any job paying less than $100/hour.
What I would be curious to know is how they plan to manage the uptime. Pretty sure the average line person at Chipotle won’t be able to troubleshoot the PLC should it fail.
It’s basically a very repetitive task, so it does make sense to automate. Except what happens if the automation fails in the middle of a lunch rush. Hell, people can’t calculate the change you are owed back in their heads anymore.
These are appliances, not robots................
And these restaurant robots do not expect a 25% tip.
I was in Seattle recently where the minimum wage is around $20 per hour.
The restaurant food prices are about 40% higher than what I pay in Florida.
In the not so recent past waiters got paid a minimum wage of less than $10 per hour and made most of their money on tips.
Now, these waiters get $20 per hour to serve overpriced food and expect a 25% tip.
Chipoltle is “Mexican food” for people who’ve never had real Mexican food.
A robot that can make a burrito properly would be a good development there.
Robots’ union coming.
This would have happened eventually even without the spiraling minimum wages, getting artificially raised by governments. This legislation merely serves to hasten the process.
It will be interesting to see how society evolves when robots are doing most of the menial labor (and eventually even skilled labor).
Elon Musk seems to think we will go to a universal income. But with no incentive to be productive in society due to having all our basic needs met, what will become of humans?
It was inevitable but they hurried it along. Robots don’t call in sick, they”ll work 18 hour days, they don’t gossip or talk back, don’t drink on the job or show up hungover, they don’t sue or get injured on the job (if they are it can be fixed) and eventually they will multitask. But it sounds like these robots are more like assembly line work replacement, similar to what is used in automotive industry. They just do one thing over and over.
Will it save money? That is an honest and open question. It will require maintenance and energy resources. But even if it is breakeven (for now - eventually they will be cost effective) it’s better that it’s reliable and responsive and requires little human interaction. Less humanity of course but also without human frailty and human troubles. It’s unfortunate in many ways, but also was inevitable. Just hurried along by wage laws.
People talk about $20 per hour but it’s more like $35 per hour to the employer when you include workers comp insurance, payroll taxes and the hassle factor.
Terminator due soon. Machines will run things.
According to a report by the National Restaurant Association, the average profit margin for fast food restaurants is around 5-8%. This means that for every dollar of sales, the restaurant earns 5-8 cents in profit. However, some fast food chains have profit margins as high as 20%.