Because no one whose primary job skill is asking “Would you like a hot apple pie for one dollar more?” is worth $15-an-hour. (Especially not the ones at the BK down the street from my office who… hand to Ra… took ten minutes to get me my Whopper, Jr. when there was like me and two other people in their restaurant.)
Various outlets are reporting that McDonald’s is currently testing automated cashiers in the hopes that they will soon roll out all over the country. The machines are touch screen and will enable customer to order and pay for their food without having to wait in line and interact with a live cashier.
Similar machines are already being used in Europe
Which will make it a little harder for all of the cheap foreign laborers Obama wants to import to find work.
On the subject of the minimum wage, useless DIABLO Chris Christie… actually said something pretty smart about that.
“I’m tired of hearing about the minimum wage,” Christie said during a speech at the Chamber of Commerce. “I really am. I don’t think there’s a mother or a father sitting around the kitchen table tonight in America saying, ‘You know, honey, if our son or daughter could just make a higher minimum wage, my God, all of our dreams would be realized.’ ”
“Is that what parents aspire to for our children?” the possible 2016 presidential candidate asked. “They aspire to a greater, growing America, where their children have the ability to make much more money and have much great success than they have, and that’s not about a higher minimum wage.”
And he must have drawn some blood with that remark, because it seems to have ticked off the right people.
Every economics teacher in the entire nation will tell you that the minimum wage does NOTHING to help those it claims to help.
Yet, they keep doing it, because it wins votes.
Idiots.
I think a totally automated BK would be the most awesome thing ever! I vote for a $25/hr minimum wage.
The reason the leftist want a minimum wage increase now is to offset the guaranteed drop in competitive wages once all the “illegals” get dumped into the labor pool.
If you are making $1 over minimum wage now, once Jose and Juanita hit the labor pool, you will be out of a job as J&J will think minimum wage is a great deal.
I don’t like the touch screen order screens. One of the regional gas station companies (Sheetz or Wa-Wa) has them and I won’t use them. I’m old fashioned and want the service I’m paying for. (I am mostly consistent: I never use the self-checkout lanes at super markets either unless that is all that is open when I’m there.)
But this minimum wage politics is stupid and harmful.
I for-one welcome our robot order-takers.
The increase in minimum wage scam is for the UNIONS, a Democratic money source. Many union contracts are tied to the minimum wage, so an increase there is a stealth-raise for them as well. Aside from it being a vote-grabber for the uninformed, it also provides, directly and indirectly, more money for Leftist coffers.
We already have a minimum wage of nearly $30 per hour: welfare. Why work at all when you can skip taxation, get housed, heated and hold a part-time job and be a player in the underground economy? Mother’s and the occasional mother and father couples all across the land sit at their kitchen table and don’t aspire for themselves or their children.
Nobody wants to address the 800 lb. gorilla is the room. The “needed” labor the DemonizingRats find so readily among the illegal immigrants is labor the welfare class won’t do. And why the heck should they? They are best unionized class of slugs on the planet.
I wouldn’t mind. At least I wouldn’t have to argue with a person, who likely has a bad attitude, that he or she got my order wrong.