McDonalds answer to $15 per hour arrives in small city America

[saveliberty]

McDonald's fast-food ordering kiosks will boost sales, analyst says

They bring your food and have less employees in the store.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

McDonald's fast-food ordering kiosks will boost sales, analyst says

They bring your food and have less employees in the store.

We have them here.

 

[frigidweirdo]

McDonald's fast-food ordering kiosks will boost sales, analyst says

They bring your food and have less employees in the store.

Well, you want a standard of living, they want a standard of living.

I know, I know, it was fucking great having slaves who'd work for nothing, but shit man, that time has gone.

 

[IsaacNewton]

Robots and automation are becoming ubiquitous in all industries, to try to use this as some political crap is laughable.

 

[percysunshine]

McDonald's fast-food ordering kiosks will boost sales, analyst says

They bring your food and have less employees in the store.

Computer programmers and robotics engineers get paid more than $15/hr.

Geek squad maintence people will be needed to fix the devices when they break down.

Technology rolls onwards....

 

[MaryAnne11]

Robots and automation are becoming ubiquitous in all industries, to try to use this as some political crap is laughable.

Besides,how often do you eat tasteless Big Macs?

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

McDonald's fast-food ordering kiosks will boost sales, analyst says

They bring your food and have less employees in the store.

Well, you want a standard of living, they want a standard of living.

Then they'd better up their marketable skill level, cuz they're not worth a $34,000 annual salary.

 

[MaryAnne11]

You guys do realize that with the full employment Obama created and Trump is taking credit for there are want ads everywhere.

Even the stores like Kroger, Meijer that have Unions have signs up.

Supply and demand raises wages.

 

[usmbguest5318]

McDonald's fast-food ordering kiosks will boost sales, analyst says

They bring your food and have less employees in the store.

Fast food restaurant firms are doing exactly what the principles of economics predict any firm will do: balance their use of the factors of production (land, labor, capital and entrepreneurship) so as to maximize profit. For as long as there have been firms, firms have done that. As technology makes it possible to do so and do so without guessing about the outcome, doings so means, among other things, trading labor for capital when cost-benefit of a given firm's business model analysis shows that the long-run returns to investment in capital outstrip those returned to labor.

Perhaps the single most effective strategies for increasing the profitability of a firm that uses labor to produce, sell and deliver their wares/services is to get the customer, as much as possible, to perform the labor.

• Drinks -- fast food restaurants transferred the labor of dispensing soft drinks from the cashier to the customer.
• Check out -- Volume retailers implement self-service checkouts, transferring the cashiering function to the customer.
• The entire selling process -- Vending machines and websites shift the whole selling process to the customer thereby leaving the firm with the costs of production and product delivery.
• Delivery -- Mail-order delivery transfers not the function of delivery to the customer, but rather the cost of delivery. Mail-order limits the seller's delivery costs to those incurred in transporting a finished good from the production line to a warehousing location; moreover, because customers don't generally enter warehousing locations, the costs of creating and maintaining it so that it appeals to and is safe for customers is also avoided.

The ordering kiosk is not an innovative means of transferring elements of labor from employees to customers; it's merely a now-available and now-cost-effective means of doing so in the fast food industry.

As for the notion of fast food restaurant employees bringing one's food to one's table, well, I think that's mostly poppycock. McDonald's may very well initiate the kiosk program that way, but I suspect that after the kiosks have been deployed to about 25% of McDonald's stores, if that many, workers delivering food to one's table will stop other than in customer specific exception scenarios. After all, what do in-store customers do now? They order and wait for a cashier to call their order number, whereupon customers approach the counter to retrieve their food.

Quite simply, whenever and wherever firms can profit-effectively reduce production and sales costs, they will, and they'll use whatever tools are available to do so. It's never been otherwise, and it's not ever going to be.

 

[del]

McDonald's fast-food ordering kiosks will boost sales, analyst says

They bring your food and have less employees in the store.

it's really got noting to do with $15/hour, though

 

[saveliberty]

McDonald's fast-food ordering kiosks will boost sales, analyst says

They bring your food and have less employees in the store.

it's really got noting to do with $15/hour, though

Only a fool would believe that the two are not related.

 

[MaryAnne11]

McDonald's fast-food ordering kiosks will boost sales, analyst says

They bring your food and have less employees in the store.

it's really got noting to do with $15/hour, though

They never heard of Automation?

 

[OnePercenter]

McDonald's fast-food ordering kiosks will boost sales, analyst says

They bring your food and have less employees in the store.

it's really got noting to do with $15/hour, though

Nor does it tout less employees. The OP is a liar.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

McDonald's fast-food ordering kiosks will boost sales, analyst says

They bring your food and have less employees in the store.

it's really got noting to do with $15/hour, though

Companies will make the same investment choices at $15/hour that they do at $7/hour? Really?

 

[del]

McDonald's fast-food ordering kiosks will boost sales, analyst says

They bring your food and have less employees in the store.

it's really got noting to do with $15/hour, though

Companies will make the same investment choices at $15/hour that they do at $7/hour? Really?

do you really think mickey didn't have this in the works prior to $15/hr?

would you like to buy a bridge?

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

McDonald's fast-food ordering kiosks will boost sales, analyst says

They bring your food and have less employees in the store.

it's really got noting to do with $15/hour, though

Companies will make the same investment choices at $15/hour that they do at $7/hour? Really?

do you really think mickey didn't have this in the works prior to $15/hr?

would you like to buy a bridge?

Investments that don't make sense at $7/hour are more likely to make sense at $15/hour.
Get it?

 

[del]

McDonald's fast-food ordering kiosks will boost sales, analyst says

They bring your food and have less employees in the store.

it's really got noting to do with $15/hour, though

Companies will make the same investment choices at $15/hour that they do at $7/hour? Really?

do you really think mickey didn't have this in the works prior to $15/hr?

would you like to buy a bridge?

Investments that don't make sense at $7/hour are more likely to make sense at $15/hour.
Get it?

and investments that made sense at $7/hr still make sense at $15/hr

jesus, get a clue, s0n, get a clue

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

McDonald's fast-food ordering kiosks will boost sales, analyst says

They bring your food and have less employees in the store.

it's really got noting to do with $15/hour, though

Companies will make the same investment choices at $15/hour that they do at $7/hour? Really?

do you really think mickey didn't have this in the works prior to $15/hr?

would you like to buy a bridge?

Investments that don't make sense at $7/hour are more likely to make sense at $15/hour.
Get it?

and investments that made sense at $7/hr still make sense at $15/hr

jesus, get a clue, s0n, get a clue

You bet.
That's why they were put in place years ago.
DERP!

 

[del]

it's really got noting to do with $15/hour, though

Companies will make the same investment choices at $15/hour that they do at $7/hour? Really?

do you really think mickey didn't have this in the works prior to $15/hr?

would you like to buy a bridge?

Investments that don't make sense at $7/hour are more likely to make sense at $15/hour.
Get it?

and investments that made sense at $7/hr still make sense at $15/hr

jesus, get a clue, s0n, get a clue

You bet.
That's why they were put in place years ago.
DERP!

because the technology existed years ago, right?

dummy

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Companies will make the same investment choices at $15/hour that they do at $7/hour? Really?

do you really think mickey didn't have this in the works prior to $15/hr?

would you like to buy a bridge?

Investments that don't make sense at $7/hour are more likely to make sense at $15/hour.
Get it?

and investments that made sense at $7/hr still make sense at $15/hr

jesus, get a clue, s0n, get a clue

You bet.
That's why they were put in place years ago.
DERP!

because the technology existed years ago, right?

dummy

You don't think it existed years ago? LOL!
Moron.