As a democrat I admit this about minimum wage... (federal, percentage, welfare)
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Waiters are not a minimum wage employees so that's out of scope of this discussion...
I don't think the demographics eating at mcdonalds would like to use automation to order and automation can't flip burgers or mop the floor as of yet.
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Originally Posted by bobtn
Check the headcount in your loacl fast food joint. It is down..severely.
Check Chilis, after tablets were installed, mine has several fewer staff every night. Multiply that by hundreds of Chilis nationally who have added tablets.
Applebees is adding 100,000 tablets. It too will no doubt cut staff.
within a few years, we'll be using self-serve systems to order food at most fast food/casual dining establishments. They do not laugh off labor cost increases. They offset them. That is good management.
Honestly I can't stand any of the big chain restaurants, they're already very impersonal.
My favorite style is a mom and pop restaurant where there is no automation, just good food.
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Originally Posted by urbanlife78
The two fast food places by my house still have a number of hard working people staffing them, and I refuse to go to restaurants that use tablets.
I believe the hidden goal is that a lot of people work in fast foods because those are the only jobs available to them so they simply want to be paid a decent, living wage, for a job that requires standing up in a heat all they long.
mcdonalds franchise goes for some $1.5M, the owners make millions while the employees get peanuts and have to apply for food stamps to survive.
Those are the only jobs available to you if you have limited education or a criminal background
Well, I could as well say that anybody who doesn't make six figures must be dull, and Bill gates would chime in saying that if you can't make a simple billion in your lifetime you're a real *******, but it doesn't change the fact that not everybody makes six figures and and not everybody can gain skills necessary to obtain a higher paying than minimum wage jobs. There are places in this country where fast food jobs are pretty much all you can get at the moment.
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Originally Posted by FBJ
Those are the only jobs available to you if you have limited education or a criminal background
Well, I could as well say that anybody who doesn't make six figures must be dull, and Bill gates would chime in saying that if you can't make a simple billion in your lifetime you're a real *******, but it doesn't change the fact that not everybody makes six figures and and not everybody can gain skills necessary to obtain a higher paying than minimum wage jobs. There are places in this country where fast food jobs are pretty much all you can get at the moment.
Isn't working at a call center as a customer service rep a better job than fast food?
Are the call center as common in American country side as fast food joints?
Do cust service jobs pay much more than a minimum wage?
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Originally Posted by FBJ
Isn't working at a call center as a customer service rep a better job than fast food?
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