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Originally Posted by Robbie
I think that fast food restaurants were happy to hire young people fresh out of high school and pay them a fair UNSKILLED worker salary to give them their first job in life.
Yes, they could have automated years ago. But it was good public relations for the communitys they are in.
But now? $15 an hour to do the job a monkey can do?
Nope. It's going automated...just as I said it would when they started demanding high wages for a job that requires ZERO skills.
I've already started seeing it at local McDonalds here. Going to McDonalds is so expensive that you can go to a real restaurant and eat for the same price or less.
For instance, I have always enjoyed a 1/4 Pounder meal...large size. It was always about $4.00 in the past.
But now? It's almost nine dollars for that shitty meal.
I can go to Lino's Italian restaurant down the street and get a plate of great spaghetti bolognese for $7.00.
Fast food was always the CHEAP way to have a meal. Not now.
So I went through McDonalds and ordered a sweet tea the other day...and guess what I saw...right by the drive in window the drinks are now automated.
I watched the cup drop into a slot on a "conveyor belt" and go under the ice machine where it was given the perfect measurement of ice and then to the sweet tea dispenser where it was filled to the top perfectly, and then to a spot where a lid was placed on it.
All without a human touching it.
Next up will be touchpad order screens to eliminate the morons asking "Would you like fries with that" at $15 an hour.
Congrats to all the unskilled workers who "demanded" a "living wage". Soon you will have NO wage at all.
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Other than kiosks we don't have the automation here in canada yet but we do have the min wage boost up to 14 and soon 15 by the end of the year. Because of that mcdonalds and other fastfood places have increased prices at LEAST 25% and it's going to continue to climb i'm sure.
Here it is comparable to eat at a modest restaurant rather than eat fast food. It helps keep us away from there, which i'm sure is good in the long run health wise but the problem has already begun with employment. More and more older people are conceding for these jobs and working there now and those jobs that would normally go to youth are disappearing. Our inflation has already gone up so fast that its had a direct impact everyone. People who once earned a modest living in the middle class are essentially earning less because the cost of living has gone way up and we aren't even a year into this huge min wage hike.
There has to be a better way...