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Jack In the Box CEO Says 'It Just Makes Sense' To Replace Workers With Robots (grubstreet.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Grub Street: Per Business Insider, Jack in the Box CEO Leonard Comma told an industry crowd that "it just makes sense" to swap cashiers for inanimate machines in the year 2018. Not because he thinks 2018 will be the year that fast food gets technologized so much as it's the year that Jack in the Box's home state of California increases the minimum wage to $11. In fact, wage bumps hit 18 states this year, with California on pace to become the first $15-wage state in coming years -- a prospect that terrifies industry executives. Jack in the Box has flirted with the idea of installing automated kiosks before. As early as 2009, it tested them out, and apparently found that they increase store efficiency and average check totals -- not bad at all if money's your bottom line. But according to Comma, the chain's executives balked because the upfront cost of converting from people to machines was still too great. What a difference a dollar an hour apparently makes: He told the crowd that with "the rising costs of labor," it's time to start thinking about automating restaurants.
Minimum wage jobs are not careers is the issue you're failing to recognize with the left's talking point argument. They're entry jobs or part time jobs. They should never be in the conversation about a "living wage" because that's not the purpose of such jobs. Anyone that works for minimum wage for more than six months is doing something very wrong. Show some initiative and strive for more.
Condoms are free. Their parents shouldn't have had children they could afford to educate properly to the level required to become self sufficient productive members of society.
Furthermore, working the fast food counter is supposed to be a kid's summer job and off hours for college and pocket money or first car. It is not living wage work for adults. If fast food is your family's primary source of income then you have failed at life and see above about condoms.
It is not my nor anyone else's problem nor responsibility to take care of people who can't be bothered to take care of themselves when perfectly capable and had every opportunity to do so.
You added the "manager payroll" into a talk about raising minimum wage.
That makes you simply a liar. That proves me right. if you didn't think I wasn't right, you wouldn't be lying to try to make me look wrong. Go on, read the link. It's clear. Though, the source is a reddit post from NZ, so the numbers are not confirmed, and may not be right for US. And the link you quoted mentions NZ, which has a $15/hr minimum wage, so how can McDonalds operate in places with higher minimum wages when they are paying more than the margin you indicate makes it unprofitable? The NZ owner mentioned sold his store for $1.4M. Not something pays for something unprofitable.
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That's probably because you're a terrible person, and the workers, who put up with terrible people all day, recognize it and treat you accordingly.
Be polite, be jovial and use some empathy (if you are capable of that) to realize sometimes mistakes happen and they can be resolved without punching, and your restaurant visits will be much nicer.