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Question ,so what happens to those that can't better themselves,we have all seen challenged people working at McDonald's or the Grocery store ,what do they do?
min wage jobs have the highest turnover of any industry..over 60%. They'll do what they always do..leave and find another min wage job.
Americans will love kiosk and tablet ordering, just as we love self checkout systems.
I see the future being like Japan. Vending machine or tablet ordering and a few people around to bring the food. The traditional waiters are reserved for really high-touch, expensive restaurants.
The first changes will be on the order entry side, not cooking food.
It is not productive for me, born in the USA and speaking mostly only English, to use voice commands to direct an Hispanic person struggling to learn our language, to key data into a computer when they can see the screen and I have no way to verify they are entering the information correctly until my order shows up. Besides, I am hard of hearing and it is a really obnoxious process. They mumble and it's a noisy environment.
Just turn the whole terminal around and I'll do it myself.
Or better yet, let me do it without standing in line, on my phone, using the store's secure wifi.
"There's an app for that"
The first changes will be on the order entry side, not cooking food.
It is not productive for me, born in the USA and speaking mostly only English, to use voice commands to direct an Hispanic person struggling to learn our language, to key data into a computer when they can see the screen and I have no way to verify they are entering the information correctly until my order shows up. Besides, I am hard of hearing and it is a really obnoxious process. They mumble and it's a noisy environment.
Just turn the whole terminal around and I'll do it myself.
Or better yet, let me do it without standing in line, on my phone, using the store's secure wifi.
"There's an app for that"
As for staff level, learn different things..great..as if fry chief is infinitely more marketable than burger flipper.
99% of the McD's staff, like the ones of the 80s, should move past McJobs after the acne years.
It actually took more skill decades ago to work at McDonalds.
That was my first job. You had to know math cause those registers didn't spit out answers to you or send the order to the back..you had to do the math in your head for change and send the order back to the guy flipping the burgers. And you had to remember who ordered what because there were no tickets with your number and items on it.
Thank you ,you proved my point of exactly how ignorant you are on the subject.Comparing anything today to anything from the 1980's is pretty stupid.
True, the 80s kids had initiative.
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