McDonald's rolls out self-service kiosks: push for $15 min wage brehs

[Vinny Lupton]

In September of this year, nearly one-quarter of restaurant closures in the Bay Area cited labor costs as one of the reasons for shutting down operations.

Thanks To 'Fight For $15' Minimum Wage, McDonald's Unveils Job-Replacing Self-Service Kiosks Nationwide

And just this past week, a California-based communications firm announced it was moving 75 call center jobs from San Diego to El Paso, citing the state’s rising minimum as the “deciding factor.”

Earlier this month, McDonald’s announced the nationwide roll-out of touchscreen self-service kiosks. In a video the company released to showcase the new customer experience, it’s striking to see employees who once would have managed a cash register now reduced to monitoring a customer’s choices at an iPad-style kiosk.

It’s not just McDonald’s that has embraced job-replacing technology. Numerous restaurant chains (both quick service and full service) have looked to computer tablets as a solution for rising labor costs that won’t adversely impact the customer’s experience. Eatsa, a fully-automated restaurant concept, now has five locations—all in cities or states that have embraced a $15 minimum wage. And in a scene stolen from The Jetsons, the Starship delivery robot is now navigating the streets of San Francisco with groceries and other consumer goods. The company’s founder pointed to a rising minimum wage as a key factor driving the growth of his automated delivery business.

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Speak on it, comrades

 

[88m3]

 

[Regular_P]

This is happening no matter what. These a$$holes just want to blame the $15 minimum wage.

 

[Will2x]

Let's see how long these expensive machines last in the hood.

 

[JahFocus CS]

This is why the working-class needs to run society. Labor-saving technologies shouldn't be a bad development where people get tossed aside and their ability to survive is greatly reduced. Labor-saving technologies should be widely dispersed and harnessed so working hours across the board are reduced and full employment can be provided for.

 

[acri1]

Like this wouldn't happen regardless.

 

[phobos:\\]

Self-servicing is cost effective, and McDonald's being a corporation, it was only a matter of time before this happened.

People really need to consider a STEM career at this point in time.

 

[DeeringHighTornadoes]

This is happening no matter what. These a$$holes just want to blame the $15 minimum wage.

exactly, LOL at fukking MCDONALD'S tryna weasel out of paying employees a living wage

these scumbags make trillions selling poison

could basically have machines doing every single job in the joint (and don't think they ain't gonna eventually try)

 

[Reality]

Blame the minimum wage for job losses when the marginal hourly cost of a kiosk approaches zero brehs.

Be an unsuspecting shill brehs.

 

[Jhoon]

OP is either a cac or so dumb that he ate up republican talking points

Or maybe he eats at mcdonalds.

 

[ORDER_66]

This is why mcdonalds is loosing their business... Their food sucks and now the machines are gonna suck too in the name of effeciency... all because they want to cut corners and not pay that $15 an hour. keep it 100.

 

[Soymuscle Mike]

We've had this in the Netherlands for at least a year now, and our minimum wage is way above yours.

Lmao at thinking McDonald's cares either way, plus those things are just convenient as fuk.

 

[Saiyajin]

why tf are you demonizing and mocking people who want to earn a liveable wage?

in support of a billion dollar corporation?

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

why tf are you demonizing and mocking people who want to earn a liveable wage?

in support of a billion dollar corporation?

It worked for Trump.

 

[Vinny Lupton]

Self-servicing is cost effective, and McDonald's being a corporation, it was only a matter of time before this happened.

People really need to consider a STEM career at this point in time.

You must be a cac
A person should be able to buy a house on a McDonald's cashier salary