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By standardizing its product across thousands of (domestic) locations (repeat respectively across countries), McDonald's gave consumers the ubiquitous predictability the thousands of independent burger joints simply cannot deliver.
For those traveling outside their usual haunts, that predictability has made McDonald's and its shareholders billions and billions of dollars.
So if you are in an unfamiliar area, are you going to eat at Joe's or eat at McDonald's?
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By standardizing its product across thousands of (domestic) locations (repeat respectively across countries), McDonald's gave consumers the ubiquitous predictability the thousands of independent burger joints simply cannot deliver.
For those traveling outside their usual haunts, that predictability has made McDonald's and its shareholders billions and billions of dollars.
So if you are in an unfamiliar area, are you going to eat at Joe's or eat at McDonald's?
Let's assume what you said is right, the government, using capitalist's money, invented the Internet. It would not be with us had it not been the vulture capitalists trying to profit from the Internet.
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By standardizing its product across thousands of (domestic) locations (repeat respectively across countries), McDonald's gave consumers the ubiquitous predictability the thousands of independent burger joints simply cannot deliver.
For those traveling outside their usual haunts, that predictability has made McDonald's and its shareholders billions and billions of dollars.
So if you are in an unfamiliar area, are you going to eat at Joe's or eat at McDonald's?
When I travel, I prefer McDonald's over ANY local eatery. There is no way I am going to risk food poisoning from some joint from "Kitchen Nightmares". I know the food may not be great, but it is good enough and is consistent in quality and taste. To me food is FUEL. Nothing else.
It's going to be interesting. The auto industry has embraced automation for years (and automation is more than just "robots"). Automation has allowed people to be removed from dangerous, difficult, heavy, hot, tedious jobs for quite some time. Due to the increased productivity, most products are less expensive and higher quality than they were before automation. And jobs that utilize actual human skills are opened up, allowing people to do things of higher value. Look at self-checkout lines. A cashier has to be one of the worst jobs out there-on your feet the entire shift, with nothing more valuable to do than swipe items over a scanner and stuffing things in bags. Talk about a waste of human talent. Let alone flipping burgers. Automation provides the opportunity to use human skills for far more valuable efforts.
Beyond that, automation allows high wage, high cost of business countries to remain competitive in a manufacturing environment. All those iPhones being build by slave labor in China? What happens when we can automate that and bring that product home? Same across the board. We have the creativity to design amazing products, but the cost of production, especially at low volumes in this country means many things we could produce get shipped off-shore.
Automation in various degrees has been around for decades, and exactly the same concerns were being expressed in the 1980s (and probably before that, imagine the upset over the concept of an assembly line 100 years ago) as now. The promise of replacing tedious, low-reward jobs has been slow to be implemented, as technological development hasn't happened nearly as quickly as expected. But maybe we'll get there. Instead of paying criminals to work for slave wages to do jobs "Americans won't do", how about automation? If we can automate more agricultural harvesting, maybe we can get over the need to have criminal aliens do those jobs and decrease the incentive for them in this country. Same with other miserable jobs like livestock processing, maybe garbage collection, etc. Lets get humans doing productive work that utilizes human ability, not the simplest, stupidest, crudest jobs around.
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I like the self checkouts. At least if my bread is smushed it's my fault and I make sure that it's not in the bottom of some bag in the bottom of my cart. And I pack all my freezer stuff in one double bag to keep it all cold.
I don't mind going through the cashier line but the baggers today are something else. One bagger started packing my stuff in the small bags. The big bags were right there yet everything went into the small bags. I had like 50 million small bags to load up in my truck. WTH.
dsjj251, It cuts staff. I've seen it at Chilis who did it in Tn. Instead of waitstaff and cleaning tables staff, you can get by with one. Waitstaff become clean the table staff; the latter see their positions eliminated.
McDonalds sets it's wage they believe is fair along with benefits for full time employees. I would can anyone demonstrating against that wage in order to maintain profit . I would get photo's of those in the crowds and fire as many as I recognize or can identify. The waiting list for jobs is endless. Go away if your underpaid and go somewhere else ,but leave so I don't have to pay unemployment as it diminishes my profits ,my money ,my bottom line already milked as a franchisee ! it's marginal busi-
ness as a franchisee already without having greedy workers hammering me.
Fun fact, The Mcdonalds CEO thinks minimum wage should be raised.
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