Pizza Hut Testing Robot Cashiers and Wait Service (wages, illegal, weapons)

[katzpaw]

This has little to do with with low-wage workers being overpaid. Automation and robotics could replace 30-40% of all US workers. See the FoxxCon link above and Experts predict that one third of jobs will be replaced by robots - Business Insider

Truck drivers are next.

http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/dow...Employment.pdf

Partial list of jobs with over 98% probability of being automated:
Order Clerks
Brokerage Clerks
Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks
Timing Device Assemblers and Adjusters
43-9021 Data Entry Keyers
Library Technicians
New Accounts Clerks
Photographic Process Workers and Processing Machine Operators
Tax Preparers
Cargo and Freight Agents
Watch Repairers
Insurance Underwriters
Mathematical Technicians
Sewers, Hand
Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers
Telemarketers
Grinding and Polishing Workers, Hand
Pesticide Handlers, Sprayers, and Applicators, Vegetation
Log Graders and Scalers
Ophthalmic Laboratory Technicians
41-2011 Cashiers
Camera and Photographic Equipment Repairers
Motion Picture Projectionists
Prepress Technicians and Workers
Counter and Rental Clerks
43-4071 File Clerks
Real Estate Brokers
Telephone Operators
Agricultural and Food Science Technicians
Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks
43-4041 Credit Authorizers, Checkers, and Clerks
Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop
Models
Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks
Legal Secretaries
Radio Operators
Driver/Sales Workers
13-1031 Claims Adjusters, Examiners, and Investigators
Parts Salespersons
13-2041 Credit Analysts
Shipping, Receiving, and Traffic Clerks
Procurement Clerks
Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders
Etchers and Engravers
Tellers
Umpires, Referees, and Other Sports Officials
Insurance Appraisers, Auto Damage
Loan Officer

[Hemlock140]

Originally Posted by ScottPlake

Their pizza sucks.

We refer to it as the plastic pizza. I prefer automation, and was very annoyed that our Safeway supermarket remodeled and took out the self check aisles. Now we have to hear the canned "did you find everything" when we go there.

[Floorist]

In Missouri, they classify almost all employees as waitresses and pay them waitress minimum of $3.85 hr.

[PedroMartinez]

Originally Posted by Floorist

In Missouri, they classify almost all employees as waitresses and pay them waitress minimum of $3.85 hr.

So,you're saying that, what, 75% of people in Missouri make $3.85 an hour?

Something tells me you're just making things up and pretending they are fact.

[The Dark Enlightenment]

Originally Posted by Hesster

That's in Japan. Considering their cost of living in the cities, I'm sure the workers are paid more than the equivalent of $15 an hour.

Actually, no. Nobody is paid that much to wait tables in Japan. They make only slightly more than the minimum wage, which is about the same as in America, $8-10 an hour and they don't get tips.

[greywar]

Originally Posted by steven_h

By the time a $15 minimum wage becomes a reality, there may not be any service jobs to fill. Welcome to the tipping point of employee cost vs. technology cost.

A robot will take your order now

Sigh. And the cost of robots has been going down for a long time. Know when Mcdonalds and other companies started this? Before the $15 hr minimum wage was being discussed.

I know a lot of people want to conflate the $15/hr with automation, but the reality is....theres no real correlation. Might make it occur slightly sooner, but not by much really. a month or two maybe? Big whoop. The better question is..what will we do when automation causes 30% unemployment.

[Diane de Poitiers]

Regarding that list of jobs which could potentially become automated.....I'm wondering what specifically they mean by "Library technicians". Because in the library system I work at, one of the larger branches has an automated check-in machine, but a staff member is still needed to go through the returned materials, because sometimes the machine checks in items that belong to other library systems, and it doesn't "catch" things like liquid-damaged books, or someone returning a DVD set with one of the discs missing.

[knowledgeiskey]

Originally Posted by ScottPlake

Their pizza sucks.

What? Lol

[kevinm]

Originally Posted by Ponderosa

Who is left to buy the goods?

Those of us who get paid to use our minds and not those whose only contribution is to apply the grease to the machine.

[MIKEETC]

Originally Posted by steven_h

By the time a $15 minimum wage becomes a reality, there may not be any service jobs to fill. Welcome to the tipping point of employee cost vs. technology cost.

No surprise here.

[said the local ATM]