Panera already started to lt customers order from Ipads... (unemployment, wages, salary)

[Rapaport]

Let's wait and see. I'd like to see automation stocking shelves and dealing with older customers. Lol

Originally Posted by HappyTexan

You won't get 100% automation but you will get pretty darn close to it.
And with that come less workers.

Big box stores with 8-10 self checkouts only need 1 person to watch over them.
That's 7-10 jobs eliminated.

[urbanlife78]

Originally Posted by bentlebee

Panera Bread Speeds Up Orders with Mobile Tech, iPads - The CIO Report - WSJ

I wonder how happy the $ 15.00 protesters like that....having a job or no job.

And are those ipads what is ordered?

[Ih2puo]

Originally Posted by bentlebee

Panera Bread Speeds Up Orders with Mobile Tech, iPads - The CIO Report - WSJ

I wonder how happy the $ 15.00 protesters like that....having a job or no job.

The best will move to making the soups salads and other crap snobs buy and the rest will get on the governments tit. Win win.

[No_Recess]

Originally Posted by Mircea

I say "in their face."

It's about time they grow up and learn about Realityâ„¢.

Thrilled...

Mircea

I'm still worried about your home life Mircea.

[greywar]

Originally Posted by Rapaport

Some people simply think that flipping burgers in for 8 hours is just fun and requires no effort. Hilarious.
I personally don't believe in automation taking over in ff world because of the human factor: many people actually like to have a human contact or can't deal with technology

Are those people willing to pay more for it? Cause thats the reality.

[Workin_Hard]

Here's the new reality of making demands when you're not in a position to make them...

[Rapaport]

Originally Posted by greywar

Are those people willing to pay more for it? Cause thats the reality.

I am not sure it is, grey war. Don't get me wrong, I am in it and have nothing personal against computers and automation however some things are not that easy to automate or it's not really cost effective.
I have seen it before, about 20 years ago everybody thought that call centers are gone and Voice Recognition will do the job of customer service agents. Millions were spent on development and implementation only to find out that many people will press zero until they reach a "live agent". There was a real backlash against companies who moved towards Voice Recognition Systems and many companies found out that to keep customers they still have to man the lines. Similarly, the FF companies have been trial testing automation for quite a while and still they don't seem to provide promised savings where implemented.

I particularly don't see the demographic that frequents the ff joints embracing automation as much as expected. I am being remind of it every time I help an elderly person use one of the automated parking machines.

Also, were just talking about cashiers in ff restaurants as all other functions would be hard to automate and I think both ff employees and hairdressers are safe for now despite all the hoopla about automation.

[Rapaport]

Yeah, I can only imagine the long lines at restaurants and millions in lost revenue...
If it was easy, it would have happened already...

Originally Posted by Workin_Hard

Here's the new reality of making demands when you're not in a position to make them...

[desertdetroiter]

Originally Posted by bentlebee

That might be true but due to the amount of talk over the years they probably increased the speed of getting other options.

So then what difference does it make? If they.were gonna do it anyway.

And why are you so giddy about it? You own stock in Panera?

[dreamofmonterey]

Originally Posted by mlassoff

It's nice to see someone who still gets off on stomping on our mostly poorly paid workers!

'Murica!

Indeed.
Panera is like a cafeteria anyway, yet OP takes glee in others misfortunes. Truly the American way. How patriotic.
{sarc.}