But What Does It Mean For Their Employees? It means there will be that many less job openings. It's also a trade off for employees earning $15. It's a shame it came to this, but when you want to force a company to pay <Mod Edit-Rule 2> to hand someone their food, this is the end result.
i hate using self check outs in walmart and other stores now, feels like there using the customer when gas stations went from full service to pump your own gas or bankers went to ATMs.
Will I have to push one for English or will it be a third world kiosks where you push a button next to a picture of a Big Mac ?
Unless they get machines to cook and serve the stuff, I'll bet it won't actually affect hiring all that much. The article points out that most of what the staff do isn't just taking orders, but expediting them. - - - Updated - - - I'll be happy if they offer German or Russian Doubt they will, though.
I'm pretty sure Germans and Russians aren't a protected class in America so you better brush up on Spanish or Arabic.
This was planned and implemented under Obama's leadership. But according to the way liberals reacted to Trump saving the Carrier jobs, you guys should be rejoicing about people losing their employment.
If you ever been an a fast food place near a college campus or where ever you have a large number of millennials snowflakes who communicate 99% of the time by texting you noticed they have a really difficult time orally placing an order at any fast food restaurant. Albertsons, Vons getting rid of most self-checkout lanes at Southern California stores
come on now, let's be fair, the planning came under Bush "McDonald's Expands Its Test of Self-Serve Kiosks" March 9, 2004 http://www.digitaltransactions.net/news/story/McDonald_s-Expands-Its-Test-of-Self-Serve-Kiosks this is not about party, it's about corporate greed.... .
I live on the Left Coast and the majority of the people who work at McDonalds aren't Americans but undocumented Democrats.
Not raise the minimum wage. That'll help to not incentivize other businessses to invest in automation and choose human workers instead
Minimum wage is done at the local level. That is why many cites have and are raising it. Trump has no control of them. Try again. What is Trump going to do to stop the Self-Serve Kiosks going in at Mc D's?
the min wage has to be raised to keep up with inflation - - - Updated - - - I missed in the article where McDonald claimed that was the reason, in fact they stated that was not the reason
Most cities are not raising it. He has control over the federal minimum wage. Your question was already answered. Try again. - - - Updated - - - Wait, there's inflation again? I thought that was just a right wing myth and we should just keep printing money? - - - Updated - - - How is he doing that?