Let them complain when they have no jobs at all. It only makes sense to forgo human workers. Less chance of orders getting screwed up, an end to robberies.
The technology already exists to pretty much make fast-food outlets operate using robotics.
Watch how many fast food outlets begin replacing $15.00 hour simians with robotics.
The only reason this hasn't happened industry-wide is b/c the franchise owners up till now could pay minimum wage and make about 2-3% net profit.
The only reason so many people wanted to be franchise owners is b/c even though the profit margin is WAY below other profit margins the guaranteed volume in sales make fast food a solid business to be in.
Reduce the low net profit and a franchise owner is better off closing the business and starting an auto parts store. Or moving to robotics.
Sure it does.
And it did as far back as the 1900s.
We called them automats.
Automat - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
How'd they work out?
They worked out very very well! The only reason why the old automats failed is because the cashier machines could not take paper money. The technology wasn't that advanced. Automated fast food is growing in Europe and Japan.
You've been to Europe and Japan, I gather?
When I was there, automats were basically in places that people couldn't set up shop. Like on Subway platforms and train stations.
Otherwise? There are a plethora of food places with real live people working in them.
The Fast-Food Restaurants That Require Few Human Workers All Tech Considered NPR
Today, Amsterdam's Febo chain of stores feature only vending-machine service for burgers, fries and more. A few employees are responsible for stocking the items behind the machines but way out of customer view, so you can walk up, drop in your coins and get a hot meal after a long night out without talking to anyone face-to-face.
Japan also has a version of automats, known there as shokkenki. There, you choose the meal you want and purchase a ticket for it, then you hand in your ticket to the cook behind the counter. I guess this eliminates the role for the person who takes your order at the register
Maybe you were there awhile ago and don't know about automating fast food in other countries.
In Europe which has higher wages than here, the change over is already happening.
McDonald s orders 7 000 touchscreen kiosks to replace cashiers - Neowin
McDonald's recently added 64,000 people to its payroll in the United States, but job prospects in Europe for those so inclined to work in the fast food industry are looking pretty grim right about now. That's because the fast food giant is poised to add touchscreen kiosks in more than 7,000 of its restaurants in Europe in effort to replace actual, human cashiers.
The argument is over. It's going to happen. Fighting and protesting for $15.00 an hour for a job worth 7 will only hasten the demise of the human fast food worker.
Sorry?
Getting info from a blog?
Have you been to either Japan or Europe?
At all?
You are free to provide any evidence you want to refute my link. You can't. You are a liberal and therefore do not think beyond your programming.
It is over. Fast food will automate and is going through the process right now. If these fast food workers want a job in the future, they should go back to school and learn how to maintain and repair their replacements.
Didn't the same thing happen when demands for higher wages contributed to pushing American manufacturing off shore?. Americans were required to train their Indian and Chinese replacements then too. At that time liberals also said there would be no exodus of manufacturing jobs, or even service center jobs. Employers would just pay the higher wages and pass the cost along to the customer. It didn't happen. Prices went down for the customer as cheaper labor was used.
Liberals never learn. They really think that their demands have to be met and there are no alternatives. There are alternatives, These workers will be replaced, rather quickly. The same way they are being replaced elsewhere.