Wendys to offer self-serve kiosks at 6,000+ stores!!!! More job losses thanks to libs

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Simple-minded liberals - "Lets force business to pay people at least $15 an hour and we'll all be rich".

http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...s-wage-increases-squeeze-fast-food-companies/

may 13 2016 Wendy’s fast food restaurant chain says it will begin offering self-serve kiosks at its 6,000-plus locations across America, making them available to costumers by the end of 2016.

The fast food giant’s decision to move toward automation comes just as “Fight for $15”–a progressive protest movement, pushing minimum wage hikes–is applying pressure on state governments to raise wages for low-skilled fast food workers.

Last August, Wendy’s CFO Todd Penegor told investors that mandated wage hikes will cause his company to pursue other innovative avenues that could lead to fewer jobs for low-skill workers.
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SmarterthanYou said:
gee, who didn't see that coming? :palm:
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I didn't think it would happen this quickly and at this large a scale. It appears ALL their stores will have kiosks this very year!! Personally i never go to restaurants. Too dangerous. Esp at fast food joints. Never eat food prepared by teen-age boys. They need to have machines prepare the food and then i might go back.
 
Text Drivers are Killers said:
I didn't think it would happen this quickly and at this large a scale. It appears ALL their stores will have kiosks this very year!! Personally i never go to restaurants. Too dangerous. Esp at fast food joints. Never eat food prepared by teen-age boys. They need to have machines prepare the food and then i might go back.
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wendys and jack n the box have done test cases with the kiosks for a few years now.
 
Someone manufactures those Kiosk's, someone sells them, someone provides maintenance, someone provides customer service.
 
I love it when big-business conservatives pretend to care about workers who lost their jobs to cost-cutting by major corporations.
 
Gross, I will only go where my food is freshly made and prepared. I don't eat food out of vending machines.
 
Rana said:
Gross, I will only go where my food is freshly made and prepared. I don't eat food out of vending machines.
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Who says the food will come out of a vending machine? It might just be the cashier's job, where the customer merely orders from a computer screen and then the food is prepared by people.
 
Lumberjack said:
Who says the food will come out of a vending machine? It might just be the cashier's job, where the customer merely orders from a computer screen and then the food is prepared by people.
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The real reason is she knows going "elsewhere" will hurt those who are still working at Wendy's and she doesn't really care what happens to them; because she's just waiting for the next cause-de-jour.
 
Lumberjack said:
Who says the food will come out of a vending machine? It might just be the cashier's job, where the customer merely orders from a computer screen and then the food is prepared by people.
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It will be food prepared by automation, what does that mean? In order for a machine to serve it up, some of it has to be made in advance. It does not sound appealing to me, but I don't eat at Wendy's like establishments, anyway.
 
Rana said:
It will be food prepared by automation, what does that mean? In order for a machine to serve it up, some of it has to be made in advance. It does not sound appealing to me, but I don't eat at Wendy's like establishments, anyway.
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I really can't eat at those places.

To the OP, automation is basically the future. We have to adapt to it any way you slice it. There was a discussion on one of the cable shows the other night about Trump's promise to win trade deals & bring back "those jobs." It was a group of industry people, and they were saying how most of "those jobs" simply don't exist anymore. They've been automated, so there is nothing to bring back to the U.S.

Now, if you big government guys want to mandate that companies shouldn't be allowed to automate, good luck with that. It's probably better to prepare the population for the future economy, though.
 
Rana said:
It will be food prepared by automation, what does that mean? In order for a machine to serve it up, some of it has to be made in advance. It does not sound appealing to me, but I don't eat at Wendy's like establishments, anyway.
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That's weird. Don't see how that would appeal to most people. I like their frostys. :)
 
I don't recall any CEOs crying about the jobs that were lost in America when they offshored them in order to get more profits.

I guess conservatives prefer the lax regulation of foreign governments that are willing to let their people be exploited by corporations that pollute the air, soil and water.

Those same corporations often book the profits overseas to avoid US taxes, and leave us to pay for the troops and defense infrastructure that makes offshoring possible.
 
Thing1 said:
To the OP, automation is basically the future. We have to adapt to it any way you slice it. There was a discussion on one of the cable shows the other night about Trump's promise to win trade deals & bring back "those jobs." It was a group of industry people, and they were saying how most of "those jobs" simply don't exist anymore. They've been automated, so there is nothing to bring back to the U.S..
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And the way to adapt is to kick out the illegals and end welfare so poor people will stop having kids. There won't be any jobs in the future for illiterate unskilled people.
 
Text Drivers are Killers said:
And the way to adapt is to kick out the illegals and end welfare so poor people will stop having kids. There won't be any jobs in the future for illiterate unskilled people.
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You are a real idiot if you think lack of welfare will make people stop having children.

You also claim you have a job, so, there is hope for others.
 
Rana said:
You are a real idiot if you think lack of welfare will make people stop having children.

You our claim you have a job, so, there is hope for others.
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Countries poorer than the poor in the US have higher birth rates. To claim ending welfare will make people stop having kids is beyond stupid.
 
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