More Fast Food Restaurants Are Now Automating

[Jimi Swagger]

There's something about the human experience at a restaurant. Chick Fil A only operates 6 days a week and still profitable. I don't see them ever bringing self service kiosk to that company.

Those traditional, queer-free waffle fries fried in peanut oil with one packet of Polynesian sauce and small Arnold Palmer drink on cheat days

Their service is always good. They use walk-up attendants in drive-thru during lunch hour. Everyone I know who worked there in HS/college loved the company. They were founded on small town principles instead of the production line model like other fast-food joints, maybe that is the difference.

 

[Antiquity]

As technology continues to evolve we will move even further into a post-scarcity economy. Karl Marx foresaw this exact predicament and said that the automation of labor would usher in the end of capitalism.

 

[How Sway?]

companies are just blatant with their reasons for automation.

 

[Wild self]

companies are just blatant with their reasons for automation.

And the prices ain't even dropping.

 

[ill]

Chowbotics raises $5 million for salad-making robots named Sally, of course

Food service robots are taking over the back of house as well.

 

[Ill Lou Malnati]

And the prices ain't even dropping.

They're gonna go UP because they're going to be investing millions and millions of dollar into this shyt.

 

[Maschine_Man]

Good , fukk a $15 minimum

 

[Tom Foolery]

I rarely eat at the fast food chains. They could close up shop for all I care.

 

[Breh13]

Food service entering a new age.



I remember Amazon showing some grocery video that uses your phone or some NFC card for you to shop around. It automatically tallies all your items and you just pay in the end by tapping on the exit. No scanning or nothing.


These min wage jobs are getting killed.

 

[GnauzBookOfRhymes]

Feel bad for the teens. This generation of early to mid teens are so fukking lazy and entitled - terrible that the ones who actually want to work will suffer. Just about everyone I grew up with had their first job st McDonalds or some other fast food joint.

 

[tmonster]

long hair don't care

 

[Camile.Bidan]

I don't know about other areas in America, but out here, none of the unskilled min-wage jobs are held by teenagers anymore. When I was a kid, the vast majority were young kids.

Now, even the Chinese dim sum shops and Chinese Grocery stores are staffed almost entirely by Mexican workers.

Every fast food space and retail shop has now hiring signs up permanently because nobody wants to work there. Point is. Automation is necessary because nobody really wants to do those jobs even kids.

I worked in Fast Food as a teenager, and it taught me some very valuable lessons about work. It's sad that many kids won't have that experience now.

 

[Vonte3000]

And the prices ain't even dropping.

Why would prices drop, with our monetary sytem its a chore to knock out inflation as it is a result of the fed increasing the money supply not development issues or minimum wage laws or whatever bullshyt excuse they throwing out. These machines won't save money they'll just serve an agenda. No pun intended

 

[Buckeye Fever]

There's something about the human experience at a restaurant. Chick Fil A only operates 6 days a week and still profitable. I don't see them ever bringing self service kiosk to that company.

Chick Fil A=dikk Fa Bae


Even if the cashier is a dude.


Their service is THAT good

 

[Vonte3000]

Good , fukk a $15 minimum

There is nothing wrong with increasing minimum wage, as the cost of living goes up by way of the dollar's devaluation it only makes sense we need more money to accommodate. Our country spending billions on wars but can't take care of home.