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I think this depends on the establishment. In sit down restaurants, I don't see it happening much, because people are paying for service, and expect it.
In fast food restaurants (which BTW seem to be the epicenter of the $15/hr minimum wage movement), I think customers would easily accept a high degree of automation, especially if it improved service, which, in that environment, it very well could. Also, a lot of the automation could be "behind the curtain" (meaning in the food prep areas) so that it wouldn't directly impact the customers. Also, the automated restaurants could underprice manned restaurants, especially if the $15/hour nonsense becomes law.
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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
. Its a bit sociopathic to not understand that these are in many cases people working harder then the average......and be thrilled by them being "showed what reality is"...that their hard work has no value.
No value and > 200% today's minimum wage are NOT the same thing.
I think this depends on the establishment. In sit down restaurants, I don't see it happening much, because people are paying for service, and expect it.
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Applebees adding tablets, just like Chilis. The local Chilis around me, I can tell by frequenting, have fewer staff on hand now.
A little thing about capital investments: Its about the payback period. The numerator is the $ invested, the denominator the labor savings expected. Wonder how they get that denominator?
Applebees adding tablets, just like Chilis. The local Chilis around me, I can tell by frequenting, have fewer staff on hand now.
A little thing about capital investments: Its about the payback period. The numerator is the $ invested, the denominator the labor savings expected. Wonder how they get that denominator?
Is that Chili's more or less busy? It is common knowledge that chain restaurants are not fairing as well as they use to.
Good for them, that style of restaurant is struggling in this country.
Yeah because if they want to go out they rather goto say Longhorn or Outback and if they want cheap meals, they rather do fast food.
I think baron sitdown well have it's market but so will traditional with actual servers just like a Five Guys in the fast food market. However to champion the loss of low wage jobs, you are cheerleading genocide because at some point all jobs can be replaced even programmers when ai become self aware.
You're moving urban life and may find yourself in a spot where lunch choices are between Arby's , Taco Bell, McD , chipotle and all other big chains with big portions of bland food. Man, I love living in New York. Lol
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Good for them, that style of restaurant is struggling in this country.
Follow the trends in Europe....
The Facebook generation loves anything techie.
Touch screens are big in Vegas too and have been in place for a few years now.
McDonald's orders 7,000 touchscreen kiosks to replace cashiers - Neowin
Electronic menus that replace physical beings is nothing new. Microsoft has been pushing its touchscreen computer, the Surface, which has mostly been a big hit at Vegas casinos, hotels, and clubs — where users can order from the table, play around with the image onscreen, and... "flirt" with people at other tables.
It's a tad fascinating how the culture has embraced DIY over service and has done so without any incentive. We are our own pack mules, while traveling, check and bag our own groceries, use touch screens to place our orders, handle our own admin in business environments and on and on.
I have a friend in Queens whose father raised a family of 5 kids on the salary of an elevator operator back in the 50's- 70's. He owned a modest 2 flat and the renters essentially paid his mortgage. He retired with a full pension. Social security was icing on the cake. The unions lifted people into middle class. People got up and went to work, every day and took 2 weeks of vacation, in August. Life was good for the masses for a blip in time.
You're moving urban life and may find yourself in a spot where lunch choices are between Arby's , Taco Bell, McD , chipotle and all other big chains with big portions of bland food. Man, I love living in New York. Lol
Actually where I am from and am moving back to, Portland, Or, it is a place where local places are where people go when wanting to eat out. I hardly ever ate at chain restaurants when I lived there, and I don't plan eating at chain restaurants when I move back.
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