What's really funny is people trying to convince themselves that these kiosks won't be replacing people even if wages remain the same.

 

My mcdonalds had one of these in place when I was in HS.

 

It's hard to say that they will or would have entirely replaced all human cashiers. Self-checkout stations have been the de-facto norm in supermarkets, certain big-box stores (Walmart, Home Depot, etc), CVS, etc., for many years and yet in most of these, self-checkout stands constitute maybe one-quarter to one-third of the total checkout capacity (although, at any given time, they usually constitute 50-75% of the active checkout capacity.

No doubt, however, that a doubling of wage costs will incentiveize store owners to accelerate the transition to kiosk-based ordering.

 

I would prefer to use the kiosk for fast food if it is necessary to eat fast food. I'd frankly rather not have some of those people preparing the food touch it either. For highly processed foods I'm sure the machine will generate a better and more consistent product.

 

at least there's a better chance a machine can line the patty up with the bun...

 

This really cannot happen quickly enough.

A few years ago, I was at a brand-new McDonald's in Peebles, OH (tiny-*** little down on the outskirts of nothing) and noticed that the soft-drinks were being prepared automatically. The drink orders went directly from the POS into a machine wherein a robot arm grabbed a cup and dropped it into a carousel, which then passed it beneath a chute which dispensed ice, then carried it to a fountain which dispensed the drink, before exiting the other side. A human then placed a lid onto the drink and handed it to the customer.

Doing sandwich-assembly will no doubt take a little longer to achieve, but I'm sure we'll get there.

 

have you never been to sheetz?

almost all their food products have been automated (ordering). I'm honestly surprised more arent like it.

but there should be a line for people 50yo and older... because i don't got all ******* day.

my movie theater is same way, typically about 10 kiosks available to get tickets from, but for some reason people still wait in a line to spend 10 times as long to talk to a real human.


also, when all places finally do this, and cut tons of jobs, the prices still wont go down...

 

Never even heard of it. I don't really do Hip-Hop dining.



That's one very large reason that human checkout stands remain in operation in grocery stores, WalMart and so on, and why I don't see even fast food restaurants ever going 100% human-free.

At Terminal 5 of JFK Airport, there's a very nice food court in the center. It contains a half-dozen or so counter-service restaurants (a Cheesesteak place, a burger place, a Chinese place, etc.) The ordering process at each of these is 100% kiosk-based; no humans available to take orders. On more than one occasion, I've been stuck behind people who simply couldn't grasp the concept of how to operate the ordering system. And not all of them were old- quite a few simply appeared to be naturally feebleminded.

Sidebar: I'm honestly a tad surprised that this system is permitted to be in place, as I don't recall there being any ADA-compliant accordance for blind people. It was visual-only, with no tactile cues anywhere.

 

its a gas station...

 

I take my sheetz at home

 

Is it common to dine at Hip-Hop gas stations in Virginia?

 

It's more of a PA company...slowly working the take over the world. It's very similar to Wawa





you can even order from the pump and have it ready once you're done.

 

100% Guaranteed - You'll get the sheetz fast, before your fuel pump stops

 

Pennsylginia is weird.

 

I'll take crappy stations that carry e85 over fancy stations that don't all day urry day

 

dont be jealous of dat 93.

 

Federal minimum wage should be eliminated and replaced with state only minimum wages coupled with a government subsidy on labor paid at a flat rate per hour for up to 40 hours of work per week. The income from this subsidy should be raised by taxing "capital profits", which is a fancy term that I use to describe the total taxable profits that a business makes less an additional 25% of labor compensation costs. (An incentive for paying for labor.) For purposes of defining the additional 25%, any individual's labor cost is maxed out at 6 to 10 times the median compensation paid by that company (to eliminate "we paid our CEO 32.6 million last year, and only made $35.50 in profits). Only labor worked for a profitable company is eligible for the subsidy. The subsidy would aim for a target inflation-adjusted household income of a time period immediately preceeding a historical time of plentiful bounty, with the ultimate goal of returning the average household to single-income earner status which strengthens the family unit and provides an economic benefit to "stay at home mom/dad" ultimately resulting in lower crime and drug abuse rates, and higher societal success.

The only way this works is if we get rid of that ******* "free trade" bullshit and institute import taxes like the rest of the modern world.

As an added bonus, we can significantly reduce or even nearly eliminate welfare programs with the subsidy. The demand for labor immediately goes up which increases the rates that employers are willing to pay for that labor. Skilled people get hired into non-fast-food work so that unskilled people can get jobs. Higher income equates to higher spending which provides a monetary benefit to those businesses paying capitol profits tax. Individuals still incapable of working can be cared for by the head of household who makes enough money to put food on the table and a roof over his/her family. Federal income taxes are decreased by the reduction in welfare costs.

At the individual level, there is no longer an economic incentive to stay home and collect that gubmint cheese. Instead, an incentive for putting in 40 hours/week exists in the form of the paycheck that an employer is paying you to help them make a profit for their business, and the subsidy that the government is paying you to go to work. In the current system, that subsidy is paid instead for you to sit at home or deal crack, meth, and heroin. (Because the wages you earn from dealing crack, meth, and heroin are generally not reported, and therefore they do not reduce the government's "sit on your ***" subsidy).

The end.

 

I want some preliminary numbers run on this assuming no changes from current business behavior (which is unlikely).

 

<p>During the industrial revolution in England, in the 1800's, workers rioted and destroyed machines that were &quot;takin' their jobs.&quot; 100+ years later, same fears over robots. Truth is, the size of the pie is not fixed. Economies can, and do,&nbsp;grow.&nbsp;</p>

 

My e85 station makes boss subs ordered at the pump, zarco 66 is on the ball



Dunno how consistent the e85 is yet, though.