Bernie Sanders and liberals have pushed Wendy's into deploying automated kiosks to over 6,000 stores by the end of the year.
The company cites the coming rise of minimum wage as the main impetus to invest more heavily into automation. The higher wages make it more appealing to switch to fully automated stores.
http://www.investors.com/politics/policy/wendys-serves-up-kiosks-as-wages-rise-hits-fast-food-group/
This is the problem with Bernie Sanders, and Hillary Clinton, and progressives who push very hard to raise the minimum wage," says Puzder CEO of Carl's Jr/Hardees. "Does it really help if Sally makes $3 more an hour if Suzie has no job?"
wew really looking forward to this I won't have to talk to anyone now
Carl's Jr is also experimenting with a fully automated store.
http://www.businessinsider.com/carls-jr-wants-open-automated-location-2016-3
Puzder's interest in an employee-free restaurant, which he says would be possible only if the company found time as Hardee's works on its northeastern expansion, has been driven by rising minimum wages across the US.
"With government driving up the cost of labor, it's driving down the number of jobs," he says. "You're going to see automation not just in airports and grocery stores, but in restaurants."
>>73913398
they should kick out all the immigrants and do that shit in Europe
>>73913500
the worst part about fast food is the people that work there
Revenue will grow like 2x if you don't have dirty niggers and gross people working there anymore.
Please Robot, save us from bernie sanders.
>>73913398
>touching the same screen normies touch
Never, it will be mac and cheese for life.
>>73913680
the computers would surely make for less fuckups too.
this is all good news to me
Thank you based Momentum machines and other robotics companies.
No meatbags's slimy hands touching my food soon.
No burger flippers needed.
Just technology replacing them, forever.
>>73913398
This will be the downfall of society
At the same time it's kind of inevitable
Just depends on how we as the human choose to go about this in the next 50-100 years. Should prove to be extremely interesting. I for one am very glad I was born in time for the biggest turning point in human existence.
>>73913905
after we replace them how do we get rid of them?
>>73913728
Hover touch screens.
>>73913991
Genetic engineering.
Make their kids into humans 2.0 instead of subhuman.
>>73913946
More welfare niggers on the dole
>>73913996
>hey i didnt push that!
About as useful as an iWatch.
>>73913728
Hopefully >>73913996 or I'll use a disposable glove
>>73914083
Still becomes much more efficient
Just think about the loss prevention from not having workers. Most theft is from employees.
You would save tons of money just not having someone they can threaten to open the register too.
Some nigga walks in with a gun and the machine isn't scared. It will keep the money locked up until cops arrive. So basically no theft from the store will happen.
good. race war is coming friends. when poors no longer have jobs and riot in the streets we'll get our cleansing.
>>73913991
Just gas them all
A lot of really tall employees are going to lose their six-figure salaries
>>73913398
>"Does it really help if Sally makes $3 more an hour if Suzie has no job?"
>Sally
>Suzie
wut? Also, the future is now!
eat shit meatbags
This robot will literally work 24/7 with no requirements other than keeping it's batteries charged.
You can't fucking compete.
>>73913500
kek if it wasn't so serious
social anxiety is crippling
>>73913680
>Revenue will grow like 2x if you don't have dirty niggers and gross people working there anymore.
>Please Robot, save us from bernie sanders.
Revenue will grow 2x if you reply to this post with
Please Robot, save us from Bernie Sanders.
>>73914422
>other than keeping it's batteries charged.
You clearly have no idea how things work
>>73913500
I really like this pepe. What is it called?
>>73914382
the libs will never agree to that and you know it
we'll have to do it the old fashioned way
>>73914422
Whatever it takes to prove labor theory of value was a lie.
Of course, I prefer the commies to die slow.
Robot Requirements:
Can live at the work place
Doesn't sleep
Works 24/7
Never emotional
Any mistake can be fixed to never happen again
Human Worker
gets tired, needs sleep, needs personal time
emotional
requires eating, shitting, and pissing break instead of being plugged in
will steal or cheat the system
Has dirty hands that can carry bacteria or virus onto the food.
Has a speaker that shoots germs when speaking.
We all know meatbags are obsolete.
I fucking love Wendy's. It's a shame the parking lot at the one close to me is so shit.
I am so fucking excited.They don't even count change. I give them complicated change on purpose and they can't count it, don't know how to count coins.
$15 an hour minimum wage!!!!
lel
>>73913728
>He doesn't wear gloves at all times
Enjoy your microbes.
Automation would've happened over time no matter what. Raising minimum wages would maybe have delayed it, but as the technology gets cheaper, the companies would eventually move to automation. And after all it's a good thing that humans don't have to do work that can be automated, you'd be a retard to think otherwise.
>>73914894
>not dipping your hands into a probiotic mixture
Do you even get science?
>>73914609
>Whatever it takes to prove labor theory of value was a lie
not a lie but incorrect
>>73913398
>Blaming it on Bernie Sanders
wow top kek
the jews who run these companies would rather pay $0 an hour than $8 an hour or $15 an hour. it's not like if the minimum wage stayed at $8 they'd be like "well, even though we'd save money with robots, we'll stick with humans cuz we're nice people! :)"
get real. a corporation will do whatever to save money. that is what corporations do.
>>73914923
No, you'd be retarded if your government policies involve importing as many low skill low IQ workers as possible, aka what EU/Canada/USA is doing, while at the same time seeing the future of automation
Even China is fucking replacing workers with automation already.
>>73914581
It's a food help helpper pepe meme
>>73913946
maybe but we're already halfwhere there anyway. Actually the new fully automated society would perfect the current employment culture where you want stable paycheck, benefits that have no connection to what you do.
You don't get it. The next step will be banning automation or requesting businesses to have x% bioworkers or some other horseshit.
>>73913398
>B-B-BUT WE NEED MILLIONS OF UNEDUCATED THIRD WORLDERS TO FILL ALL OF OUR MENIAL JOBS?!?!?!
I love the free market so fucking much
GAS THE POOR
AUTOMATION WAR NOW
What's the cutoff for when we start exterminating the poors? Annual salary wise. Or do we base it off net worth?
>>73915129
In the next 5 years it's very possible for 10,000,000 USA jobs to be replaced with automation.
Of course that is with a rather aggressive replacement plan, but is very possible.
It's going to be chaos.
>>73913398
>Blaming a candidate that has no shot in hell of winning
>>73915161
>tfw systems analyst
>tfw essentially someone who troubleshoots hardware and software
If they can replace me through automation I will gladly go to the gas chamber.
>>73914582
Holy shit can't believe I share space with you.
>>73915383
The minimum wage hikes in general are turning rather slow thinking fast food execs into robotics/automation.
It has nothing to do with policy but rather that it is making them much more enthusiastic about automation.
KARMAS A BITCH ISNT IT
>>73915031
Yeah well then there's a problem with the immigration policies. Automation will happen either way, with or without minimum wage
>millions of shitskin jobs gone
>Replaced by 1 trained white person who just cleans machines & occasionally trouble shoots
lol
>>73915774
>Implying it won't be an Indian in Bangalore remoting into the server 95% of the time for $1 an hour
>>73914422
>This robot will literally work 24/7 with no requirements other than keeping it's batteries charged.
You forgot the passionate loving it needs from time to time.
>>73915867
this
>tfw hindus are going to be fixing burger machines
>>73913680
>>73913500
THIS
gimmie muh bits without having to talk to ANYONE. Truly a golden age of shitposting is upon us.
>>73915867
>>73915974
>>73915774
What a wonderful utopia, but who will buy the burgers?
>>73916135
The burgers will be too cheap to meter
>>73915457
what? are you a poorfag?
>>73916025
Just letting you know that you are a faggot for watching that show.
>>73914997
Robots/computers cost more than minimum wage to maintain. The reason they're not doing it yet is because people are currently more efficient.
>>73916135
Niggers on welfare
>>73916236
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJMbem7T4KY
>>73913398
Kek liberals are dumber than I thought. Pushing for this means that people will be replaced by machines, reducing jobs.
>>73916135
The 99% of people who don't work in the fast food industry in this country.
>>73913728
The kiosks setup the workflow that allows for cashiers to be mostly eliminated. But you could use an app on your phone in place of the kiosk once they have the workflow setup for bypassing the cashier.
>>73916511
that is mentioned in the article
"n addition to self-order kiosks, the company is also getting ready to move beyond the testing phase with labor-saving mobile ordering and mobile payment available systemwide by the end of the year. Yum Brands and McDonald’s already have mobile ordering apps."
>>73916657
Taco Bell's mobile ordering is a joke. They don't actually prepare your order ahead of time or at least that's my experience.
The new language for working in fast food, I might be interested now.
>>73913398
>This is the problem with Bernie Sanders, and Hillary Clinton, and progressives who push very hard to raise the minimum wage," says Puzder CEO of Carl's Jr/Hardees. "Does it really help if Sally makes $3 more an hour if Suzie has no job?"
Read Ayn Rand, the Democrats will just make automated kiosks illegal.
>>73914417
The point is that the increased minimum wage is going to force companies to optimize certain links in the supply chain, and the best way to do that is with one worker being assisted by a machine, rather than have two workers.
Higher minimum wage = less unskilled jobs as soon as companies can automate the position.
Problem is, we've got plenty of unskilled labor, which means more nogs on welfare.
It's going to get weird.
>>73914838
>that nog on the left subtly flipping off the camera.
Yay Mummy can get my tendies faster now
Why should people be expected to have a living wage doing a truly shitty job that even a trained monkey could do?
When I worked at McDs (a long time ago) I accepted that it was a minimum wage part time job because I was in college and never expected to work there forever.
They did keep upping my hours to 30+, in spite of my demand to keep it near 20, because I was one of the best people there. I called production after only working there for 2 months. They wanted to make me shift manager, but I didn't want the hours.
Now I have an MS in Chemisty, an MS in Information Science, and make $100K as an application engineer.
It's PART TIME for a reason.
I'm all for automation but we REALLY need to start thinking about what we're going to start doing with all these low class blacks and browns. There is no way in hell I'm paying more in taxes because ex felons and highschool dropouts can no longer get minimum wage jobs.
>>73916869
Don't you understand.
All the futurist economists who said everyone will be fighting for immigrants from Africa in 2025.
Not even making this up but the mainstream elite view is that in the future people will be desperate for as much immigration as possible from places like Africa.
>>73917241
Someone has to maintain the roads. Make the whites the overseers/guards and the negroes/hispanics can do all the back breaking labour
>>73916135
>>73917241
Before a baseline wage comes, expect some food to eventually be free. As in completely. Canned shit especially. It's all about getting the transportation system in place at this point.
Then expect blacks to endlessly bitch about that.
>berniggers and cuntons want minimum wage to go up
>jobs getting replaced just by the threat of it
lel, what the fuck do these retards think will happen when minimum wage actually does increase?
>>73917695
Basically.
Autonomous transport, unloading/loading, etc
It's going to be a long time before it all gets patched up, but it's coming.
The savings are enormous and enough to pay for people to eat.
>>73917695
What about the whites on welfare? Pretty sure there's more of them than blacks overall.
>>73917241
We're building new housing projects for them as fast as we can, anon !! Now we just need to implement production lines on-site.
Lead, follow or get out of the way. This is the latter.
>>73913946
No, the downfall of society came about when work no longer meant anything and it became completely possible to produce nothing and consume for free.
Without that invention the world wouldnt have ballooned to 6 billion and counting, nor would the world economy be as fucked as it is
>>73918184
what contribution are we losing out on?
If a machine can do it better, and there are no new jobs created for them, them being on welfare is a good thing.
>>73918344
Remember when we used to need niggers ?
>muh automation
Automation isn't happening to any greater extent than it has already anons.
>muh robot delivery drivers taking robot-picked and robot-canned produce right to my door FOR FREEEEEEEEEEE
>>73916487
even if there are no machines ready, management will do what they can to cut the number of employees. This has happened time and time again, of course, liberals refuse to see it.
>>73918465
The biggest one I foresee is taxi/truckers.
For some reason I expect the protests and anger to be immense when they are replaced.
>>73916135
The people with jobs. Pretty much any argument you can come up with is easily dismissed as the bottom 10% of America could disappear overnight, and the economy wouldnt feel a single blip on its trend line.
People talk about the 1%. They arent the problem. The bottom 10% are the problem in every way, shape, and form
So let's say this completely happens with these type of jobs
Would that make my grocery job whee I examine the freshness of fruit worth more? Or basically will this start fixing the economy in some way?
>>73913398
now all they need is something edible on the menu
>>73916511
the kiosks have turned the cashier around and improved so the customer can use it himself. With the increasing tech savvy of customers this makes sense - they no longer need someone that enters their order.
The kiosks do not replace a human with a machine - they replace one human with another and cut out reduncancy (2 people trying to enter the order).
>>73914838
god, that looks so much better than waiting in a long ass line just to order
>>73913398
implying this wasn't coming regardless
>>73918674
>Ahmed/Juan doesnt play shitty music and talk their shitty language while I sit through it all anymore
>Comfy AI giving me everything I could ever want in a car ride
The thought of a female AI voice talking to me while it drives and having a nice conversation with me expands my dick to lengths that shouldnt be possible
>>73919211
of course it was, I used these in Jack in the Box over 6 years ago
far better than some idiot fuck asking my how I am as if their my friend.
>>73913398
Yah, nice try OP you still need employees to make the food you fucking idiot.
>>73913398
Not shocking at all.
>>73919090
Of course
but computers are intruding on traditionally human areas like vision and voice recognition.
>>73918674
>taxi
Easy and is going to happen even sooner if you count the fact that your car will drive you to any place you want by itself.
>truckers
I expect major problems, and if you're in the US I seriously doubt the federal government is going to allow it very quickly. Maybe 10-15 years from now.
>>73913398
thank god I hate having to talk to people especially the uneducated or poor english speakers
>>73919515
Retarded wendys burger flipper detected
>>73913398
>Muh 15$
>>73919515
not for long
>>73913398
Meanwhile German car manufactured fired robots and hired humans instead.
Turns out that robots are really high maintenance and not nearly as flexible as humans.
I say lets let them prove their point. If after 5 years of use the automatons have proved their worth, sure. But I doubt it will.
>>73913680
Nooooo. These niggers would be no job and loitering all over the street, doubling crimes and rapes.
>>73920557
Hopefully it just creates more criminal justice jobs and the nigger prison population doubles
everyone wins
This would make me visit their restaurent more.
I order very customized orders, ask for no nice, extra this, no that. Dumb people can never fucking get my order right. I have to repeat it like 3 times and they still fuck it up.
A machine would do it perfect and never complain!
I look forward to seeing one these.
>>73913398
>business model based on slave wages
>forced to adapt to changing times
>/pol/ on suicide watch
>>73914997
You have no clue. These companies invented robots so long ago that you probably never heard about. They just didn't have a reason to replace large amount of workers and cause problems.
Now the society has changed and their workers chimp out. They finally get a chance to use those machines. If anything, this is asked by stupid dumb poor people
>>73920540
Cars are a bit more complicated than taking orders from a pre-determined menu.
>>73914894
Touch screens don't respond to gloves desu...
>>73914627
>will steal or cheat the system
http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-08/evolving-robots-learn-lie-hide-resources-each-other
Robots do this too.
>>73921089
Taking orders, understanding orders, preparing the ingredients, assembling the cooked meals, delivering the final product...
Its not that different.
With all the crazy high FDA standards regarding food hygiene, it might even be that cars are a bit easier to assemble.
They have these at the Wendys here in Houston. They still have people make the food, it just replaces people sitting at a cash register all day.
Looks like this is a place that won't get my business
>>73913398
Fast food work is something teens should be looking to do, but what happens? A bunch of Communist faggots with shitty-shit-tier degrees take up those jobs and demand a liveable wage for flipping fucking burgers.
The result? Capitalism giving Communism the middle finger by replacing men with robots.
The aftermath? A bunch of Communist faggots with shitty-shit-tier degrees are now jobless leaching off the state with teens, who want to work hard, now being able to get any job without a degree, because all the low level jobs have been exported or replaced with by robots.
>>73913398
My local convenient store takes orders and payments online. Kiosks are shit-tier.
>>73918918
It means you better get your ass in school and study something STEM related because shit is going to change and quickly
>cyber warfare for free burgers
>>73913398
Bernie Sanders or no, what the hell is thing going to mean for the job market?
I mean, my first job was making pizzas at fucking Little Caesar's. It was my only means of income.
If the future of jobs like that is automation, and let's not kid ourselves that this was going to happen inevitably, then what does this mean for the job market in general?
If even older teens out there can't get out into the job market then things are only going to get worse from here on out. Automation will fuck portions of the job sector no matter how you slice it. Which will fuck the economy.
Where is Timmy gonna go for his first job, essentially.
>>73922906
k.e.k
>>73921305
Motorcyclists have had to deal with this issue for about a decade. We have many solutions now. One of the more popular is to weave a pad of carbon fiber thread into the fingertip. Another is to saturate the leather with conductive polymers.
http://www.revzilla.com/motorcycle/icon-pursuit-perforated-touch-screen-gloves
>>73923406
I have leather palmed motorcycle gloves and they work with my phone screen just fine
>>73923406
pic
>>73923250
I'm guessing that eventually people will have to seek more "creative" job prospects (programming, entertainment, etc.), but seeing as how many of those things can be automated it won't be long until jobs are no longer available. Two options i see from there:
>Post-production utopia
>End of human civilization
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkI09S4o9WE
>>73916813
New? Ladder logic is fucking old. It's been around for decades. They use it in most industrial machinery that require process control.
>>73913398
Like this is anything to do with minimum wage and was not always coming to take the jobs.
>>73922385
Is it still considered an emerging industry? I imagine it would be quite lucrative if one were to start a business manufacturing and selling these kinds of automated ordering kiosks. Not sure how high the barrier to entry would be though.
>>73915419
VIV can write its own code to address complex queries as it receives them and a computer beat the world's best Go player.
At least on the software side, your job will be obsolete within a decade - if not sooner.
>>73913398
They already tried it up here in WA before the wage rise, and nobody liked it and it was removed.
There is more to customer service jobs than simple automated tasks.
>>73923876
geez
skimmers will be installed on day one
>>73913398
this is why im TWEETING FOR TWENTY now.
>>73921455
>press order into screen from pre-determined list
>person still assembles meal
>???
>delivered as normal at a delivery station
No one talked about removing burger flippers. OP is about removing the cashier. That alone would halve the work force, you fucking medpack.
>>73913996
Finally! The Hoverhand Wins again!
Pol should stop being so reactionary. $7.25 is literally slave labor but fuck no I'm not paying a burger compiler 15 bucks an hour to get my order wrong. I say around 11 dollars would be sufficient since most of those workers are already on government handouts.
>>73923919
Then people will just lose their jobs. Most restaurants average single-digit profit margins. Of course these idiots who can't get promoted out of fast food cashier jobs have no idea what that means, or the inevitable ramifications of demanding a 100% pay bump.
>>73913513
Time to start eating burgers for the automated future.
A liberal tear in every bite.
>>73916827
>Read Ayn Rand, the Democrats will just make automated kiosks illegal.
So companies will implement on-line ordering through a smartphone.
Or they will reduce the size of the restaurant to that of a vending machine.
Democrats don't rule the world and Americans have never been comfortable with other countries being more technologically advanced.
The trouble for them also is that these things are already in widespread use which means that if the government bans them, under the Democrat negotiated TPP the government will need to compensate those companies for the increased cost of employing staff - as well as the companies that designed and manufactured the machines for lost revenue.
>>73924311
There's actually a lack of fast food workers here despite the wage rise. Vibrant economy is pushing people to greener pastures.
That said, this is partially because we weren't retarded with the wage rise (it comes in staged phases, speed depends on business size, and you are allowed to charge a surcharge for extra wage cost if you need to).
They've already been doing this for years at gas stations like Wawa and Royal Farms. I'm surprised it took them long enough.
>>73913500
Yeah and robots won't spit in your food.
>>73913398
I'll be glad when fast food is fully robotized. First off, no 16 year olds giving me attitude like they're somehow important or 'forgetting' to wash their hands frequently enough, secondly, having been on the other side of the counter, people might actually figure out why a LARGE combo costs more than it says on the menu (for a regular combo). Seriously, I had at least one customer that retarded per night.
>>73913680
nigga you are aware employee pay is like, 1% of your food prep cost at these sorts of places, right
this is literally just fast food places throwing a shitfit that their profits will take the tiniest hit
>>73921455
This is just taking orders. Something that is already done at a couple places around the nation already.
Even if the company stops at cashers, you're looking at a staff cut of at least 2-4 people per store. That is a huge cost savings not just in salary but also the bull shit humans bring with them.
>>73920904
a friend of mine does this. He's a pain in the ass and probably gets extra fomunda with his order. Fast food employees get mad if they have to break routine and think for a second or two.
>tfw no one will look at me weird when I walk in drunk and order a baked potato, a baconator, fries, frosty and spicy chicken sandwich
Finally we can replace those people.
I am sure everyone who doesn't have marketable skills will be turned into pets just like other working animals that humans no longer need.
>>73921089
there's still plenty of robots, they're just trying to reach equilibrium.
>>73923707
That music is shit. People will probably always prefer art made by humans.
>>73913500
>>73913680
Truth. Wendy's employees are the scum of the earth, always trying to talk down to you as if they're superior for working at a fucking Wendy's and you're inferior for eating the food at 2 am.
I'd eat somewhere better if it were open, BITCH.
I have three machines like this in my local Mcdonald's. Massive vertical touch screens that are cleaned on the hour, and they're double sided so six people could order simultaneously. The GUI is actually really nice. Scrolling menus and everything that make me feel like I'm in minority report.
Every damn time I walk into one to buy my fat mother a burger so she can stop fucking calling me, I'm literally the only person using them. People prefer people, it seems.
Or at least normies prefer normies over the spooky over-sized iPad.
>>73914179
Easy way to fix that, is to have your finger hover over the spot on the screen for three seconds to confirm your choice.
>>73927678
tfw fuck a VR doll then go to fast food place and order from a robot
>>73928325
Plug my brain in, senpai.
>>73914582
>by gasing them
>>73927951
People are just getting accustomed to them. This is how it went down for grocery stores when they put in massive self-check out. People are afraid they won't know how to work the machine and look like massive retards. They'll get it sorted out eventually.
>>73915419
Youre alright. Dont go to autwhitz tomorrow
To all who oppose the minimum wage increase, then what do you do when inflation keeps rising the cost of living?
>>73913996
>tfw leap finally has a business case
>>73920218
Ill spit on your burger next time you order you little bitch
>>73928898
remind myself that im not a teenager and need to pursue a career and not work at my local movie theater for $9 an hour for the rest of my life
>>73929151
I thought you could during the golden age of America... what happened to that?
>>73925057
win margins are less than 2% usually
They make shekels from selling a lot of shit when we talk about corporations
>No more niggers touching food with their slimy hands and spitting at your food when you forgot to tip them for 20 dollaros after forgetting to tip from your tip
>>73915161
>Mechanical engineer
You can meme all you want, but that doesn't take away my job
>>73925057
what are you talking about nigger. Employee compensation is the largest operating cost of any restaurant/food provider.
Fucking finally. America deserves better jobs than service industry. This will create more jobs for techs etc and will push people to look for better opportunity than just relying on that shitty fast food check.
Im a liberal and Im kinda glad this is happening.
>>73913398
Is that even at a wendys? Looks like duchess
>>73913680
>Love Checkers/Rallys.
>Niggers at one close to my house always fucks up order and are rude.
>video comes out of Checkers employes wiping buns on the floors and serving it to customers.
Please robot take their jobs.
>>73913398
I look forward to the era where we get gourmet hamburgers at fast food joints perfectly made to order by machines at a reasonable price.
I'm 100% okay with this as long as they get rid of those bullshit Coca-Cola soda dispensers
I fucking hate their entire product line and their company and they've ruined plenty of stores by having those abominations put in replace of fountains.
>mfw I am arguing about soda when it's slowly killing me like everyone else and I should only be drinking water
>>73929508
>he doesn't know about overhead, logistics and advertising/marketing
>laughing_sluts.jpg
>>73914997
>>73920975
Yeah, most products in stores are made by machine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JeODHrC6Pk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHArD6LgTAI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8KJGtMGMSY
>>73913398
Wendy's is about ready to go bankrupt anyway, we lost ALL Wendy's in our town in early 2015 and nobody has protested/asked for them to return or seemingly cared much.
They just had a bad run on their stock and its under 10 bucks which is even worse than El Pollo Loco.
Just a desperate attempt to stay afloat, people will avoid it worse IMHO because the machines will break when people abuse them especially in suburban areas and losing the human touch negates the entire purpose of eating in, just eat at drive throughs.
>>73923250
>>73923707
It's not just food
Sports Authority is closing 450 stores, The Gap is closing 150, and Aeropostale is closing 100
I'm sure Macy's will close some as sales fell and their stokes fell 17% this week.
http://dailyjobcuts.com/
>Macy’s woes could doom a third of America’s malls, analyst says
https://archive.is/L4fED
>>73923406
>>73923587
>>73923696
Can't you just take them off
>>73931628
*stocks
>>73931263
A Wendy's has been on a corner near a Walmart for years and another one off the highway. I don't see many go in, but they've survived for more than a decade
>>73931628
The brilliant bankers are figuring out that having everyone be massively in debt kills the economy.
And next to go are all the easy overpayed STEM jobs that rely soley on computers and automated machines. This has nothing to do with a push to create livable wage for all, it has to do with greed and capitalistic corruption.
We have these automated order and pay things here they are pretty nice actually especially to people with social anxiety like me
>>73913398
This is only the beginning. I cant wait for once overpaid union jobs to be automated aswell. Automakers who have fully automated plants that only require one or two techs on shift. Lego has only a couple dozen employees and the factory is closed 4 months of the year. I heard the Chinese are experimenting with fully automatic steel mills.
>>73914997
So whats wrong with them deciding to automate their process as opposed to hiring people to do it?
>>73932016
But it's only starting to happen now?
see
>>73931163
They're still going to need workers in the kitchen and package everything, not to forget people need to repair machines.
Most machines seem to be made by outside companies and cost a lot to repair.
I'd probably go to Wendy's more just because they had machines desu
>>73932581
I'm surprised cars are built by machines already.
>>73913398
>ordering inside
drive thru master race
>>73913398
All 6000 stores? only 3 states have a 15 dollar minimum wage these pieces of shit are trying to spread it across the board and you are blaming an old jew for it.
>>73913398
Me and my friend went into a Wendy's when we were on holiday in the US. We both had faggot hair back then.
>we walk into the store
>black guy at the till
>"Why do all white boys gotta try and look like Justin Bieber?"
Niggers really do make the experience shit even though it was hilarious. Wendy's is shit though. There was more fat and grease than burger.
Automation will make it better though.
>>73913500
>wew really looking forward to this I won't have to talk to anyone now
I feel your pain bro. I have social anxiety and if it weren't for self service at super markets I would be royally fucked.
>>73913398
>ITS BERNIE SANDERS FAULT
bullshit. They were always going to do this shit because not having employees increases profits.
Blaming it on lefty politicians is just an excuse as it allows them to deflect criticism and lower support for politicians/ideologies they dont like
You're a retard if you cant see this.
>>73913905
and once the 4 tomats are sliced in hamburgers, guess who's going to refill the tomato tube ?
In reality, robotics can't efficiently flip burgers as of today.
>inb4, wendy's blaming on Sanders what they have prepared for a long time ago because fuck - everything that can be automatised will be automatised. No need minimum wage laws for that.
>>73913513
WOULD YOU LIKE SOME EXTRA BIG ASS FRIES!?!?!
>>73913500
Basically this. I don't get fast food because I don't want to be a person who eats fast food in others eyes. If I could sneak in with a hoodie and order at the machine maybe I'd do it.
>>73913398
We have these fucking kiosks in our McDonald's restaurants up here.
My problem with them is I don't want to be TOUCHING A TOUCH SCREEN SOME SHIT FINGERED SNOT NOSED LOWLIFE JUST TOUCHED BEFORE EATING FUCKING FOOD!!!!
Seriously, we should start doing bacterial cultures on these ordering systems and suing the restaurants for fecal matter found on the surface.
>>73913398
It does help Sally because Suzy will be able to walk down the street and get a new, more productive job.
This idea that there's only finite jobs is bullshit. With that kind of reasoning we shouldn't build trains because it'll put all the bus drivers out of work.
>>73917233
>Why should people be expected to have a living wage doing a truly shitty job that even a trained monkey could do?
Because they lost their better paying job and have a bills to pay and kids to feed?
Or would you rather give people an economical incentive to rob to stay alive? It costs way more that way.
>>73918184
13% of the population, ~40% of welfare recipients
yes, jimmy say after mister shekelberg here
WHITE GENOCIDE IS GOOD!
>>73933281
desu senpai I already get fussy about eating food after touching the card machine.
>>73933067
>tfw you learn that robot's entire life is to just die
>>73933281
I doubt they don't clean the screens once a day. They're probably cleaner than the money in your pocket.
Touch the screen with your knuckle or go wash your hands before you pick up your food. Ez
We already have this stuff in most gyudon/ramen places. You order by getting a ticket from a machine by the entrance. Conveyor belt sushi places normally have tablets for you to order from, too.
Step up westerners
>>73933509
What had happened was lately yes jobs have actually been awfully finite.
>>73933602
>tfw you learn YOUR life is to just die
>>73932903
Sanders would make $15/hour national
>>73913500
Is this realy how you want to live your life? Being so nervous of people that you retract from every little social interaction progressively, only to end up with nothing but your own voice in your head and all encompassing loneliness?
I have social anxiety too, but this is madness.
Oh god
>>73933281 >>73933569 >>73933655
When I do pick up food from a store I don't eat fries on the way home because I know I've touched money and the doors.
>>73933602
>>73933067
>>73933746
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqzLoXjFT34
Technically Sanders wants Wendy's to redistribute the profits of its automation back into the hands of its customers.
>>73933509
>his idea that there's only finite jobs is bullshit.
There is only finite amount of money in the system before taxes are substracted. After that there is even less.
People only have so much disposable income to use to buy services and products.. With less demand there are less jobs. Its a positive feedback loop.
Post yfw you realize this means IT workers will have to be hired to keep them running correctly basically having tech nerds cucking high school dropouts and college kids
>>73934019
Yeah it's fine if you do take out but if you eat in you're fucked. This is why back when I used to go, I'd always take it out.
>>73934258
Except they won't hire you. Theyre gonna make you work for free for "upkeep" which barely covers the gas for your car.
Theres gonna be millions of applicants.
I wonder how Tumblr/Reddit is reacting to this.
>>73933281
How much piss and shit is on your menu?
>>73913398
more reasons for distributing wealth. if robots, ai and driverless cars are going to replace tens of millions of jobs in the future then its important how money is split up.
whether you like it or not anon, it's coming , one way or another.
>>73934442
>Except they won't hire you
I won't even be applying
I'm a photographer, I literally cannot be outsourced
>>73934481
Eh, they could implement hand gestures without the need to touch the screen. I worked with this technology a few years back. Not much different than Wii/kinect.
>>73934605
There is someone who will do it cheaper
>>73934605
When unemployment hits 90% good luck finding customers who can pay with things you can exchange for food...
>>73934604
This guy gets it. This is why we need to be experimenting with basic income. But first corporations like Wendy's need to pay their fair share.
>>73934481
>Not carrying around one of these bad boys
>>73934481
>>73934902
Does touch screen recognize it?
I'd just go to the bathroom and take some paper towels
>>73933538
>spending over 130 billion on niggers and spics who refuse to work every year
how does our government plan to even dig themselves out of this fucking hole? no matter how you look at it America will ALWAYS be going more and more into debt.
>>73934605
You overestimate yourself. I can see AI photography being viable, just a matter of when.
>>73934866
>>73934604
You think the rich would give up their money? They would have already.
You think $15/hour will hurt the dollar but giving everyone money won't?
>>73934785
You don't understand the photography market much do you?
>>73934802
$20 is $20
Also since I've been doing it for years my eyes have gotten bretty damn good at catching details and finding things most people don't simply because they don't use that part of their brain often. I could literally scout for hire among a myriad of other things
>>73935027
There is absolutely no incentive for them stopping piling on debt. Theyre addicted and will attack you if you threaten their addiction.
>>73935171
>$20 is $20
Yeah and the british pound used to be worth a literal pound of silver.
Shouldn't the goal of civilization be 100% unemployment?
>>73935141
They must, or no one will be able to afford their products and services to begin with.
>>73935141
I think $15 here in California will kill a lot of jobs, but they need to be killed. Too many people here already that don't need to, maybe they will fuck off and try to make it somewhere else.
This state is built on low wages, and once they ramp it up to 15 here, off the top of my head I see a couple of stores going that I know personally, but lik eI said, they need to. So many businesses here who only exist because they pay shit wages, there wont be as many people here, rent prices will sink. Instead of building all these failing businesses that essentially fucks employers, they should build houses.
>>73934866
>need to pay their fair share
This ol' meme again. You don't get it do you? It's cops and robbers. You have to catch them and cut them off, stop them dodging and evading. Otherwise they will always do it.
>>73935574
>employees*
>>73935362
Depends whetever that future is Soylent Green or Star Trek.
>>73913500
I agree, fast food employees are (understandably) terribly unpleasant to deal with.
The free market really does fix everything, unless you work there.
>>73935574
CA here too. Silicon Valley had 3,000+ laid off Q1 2016, about 1,000 more than Q1 2015. That's only counting companies with 50+ employees.
NBC4 had a report that the LA garment district is slowly moving overseas.
>>73913398
Well i already dont shop at wendys hopefully others will do the same and they go out of bussiness.
How would you like it if you wanted a raise at your corporate job and then you were fired and replaced with a comptuer. Because that could happen to you too.
>>73934481
>he doesn't have a stylus
use a fucking leaf if you have to
>>73937106
>>73913398
Get the fuck with it people. Obligatory.
>>73913398
Socialism doesn't kill jobs they said.
Automation engineer here. This is why I'm voting for Bernie. His push to raise minimum wage will get my company a lot more business.
>>73933538
>>73935642
Yeah exactly. And it will happen.
>go to movie theater with parents as child
>have fun, walk home
>dad takes a wrong turn and we head towards the bad part of town
>robber shows up, wanting my mom's necklace
>dad says no, gets shot
>shoots mom as she tries to go for his gun
>parents are dead, so have to grow up with house keeper
>decide to devote my life to ridding the world of criminals
>discover tendies
>ditch criminal plan because tendies are love
>years later some faggot breaks my back and smashes my arms to a pulp
>can no longer order tendies because people have been replaced with wiis
>why even live
>>73937784
>automation
>socialism
see
>>73933065
retard
>>73937934
What companies do I invest in? What automation companies are there
>>73913905
Keeping complex machines like this food safe for health department regs with only highschool-tier labor skills is going to be a hassle unless they come out with better antimicrobial materials/washable modular parts. Ice cream/froyo machines are already troublesome.
>>73938418
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXdvY0vs1b8
Japan has done it pretty well.
>>73913398
>"higher wages guise!!"
And significantly fewer jobs. Wew lad.
>>73938418
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhPA5TxL_Ms
This is years old technology and they have only improved it. Sushi is pretty ideal for it though.
>>73924794
Haha, funny but true!
>>73914422
With the right mind you can work like that too. Just home to sleep and then back for work. When I was younger I had days starting at 6am and ending at 10.30pm with only 30minute break during the whole day after wich I still had to get back home to bed. Tho I slept away my weekends after that.
>>73938563
Dude that's cool as fuck.
>>73939006
you can, for a while, till you burn out and kill yourself.
>>73916274
I have been replaced by a robot twice. Both times in the metal industry. Welding robot and one assembly.
