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Wendy's moves to replace workers with kiosks; loss of $15/hr. wages
Topic Started: Feb 28 2017, 12:05 PM (123 Views)
Rainman
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As predicted, Wendy's moves to replace workers
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Well, that didn’t take long at all. Rather than waiting to see how the Fight for 15 turns out, fast food chain Wendy’s announced this week that they will be moving into the world of automated sales at some of their restaurants starting with a pilot program in Ohio. The technology they are installing has already been available and in use for some time in Europe and Asia, as well as in other point of sales applications in America. But for those who have been so loudly arguing in favor of a “living wage” for people taking starter jobs asking if you would like fries with that, this announcement has some ominous portents.

Even if there isn’t going to be a national minimum wage of $15 per hour coming along this year, the writing already seems to be on the wall. Many states have moved forward with incremental increases which will drive labor costs up to or near that level over the next few years. In New York we will probably see that minimum wage level in the city in the very near future, while upstate regions will lag a bit further behind. As more and more areas bow to the social pressures being exerted by activists, employers no doubt foresee more of the same on the horizon.

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Feb 28 2017, 12:05 PM

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social pressures being exerted by activists

Do activists make minimum wage?
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A comment I read:
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Presumably they’ll cost less than $15 an hour to operate and won’t fall under the ObamaCare employer mandate.

They’ll also keep much closer tabs on customers’ buying habits.
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Steve Miller
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This has nothing to do with minimum wage. If the employees were making $5/hr. they would still be doing this.

Everyone else will follow in short order. Warehouse jobs are about to disappear as well.
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Mark
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HOLY CARP!!!
It's bad enough their food sucks. That is 99.999% the reason I stay away from these places. Now they are going to make them into giant vending machines?

No thanks.
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It seems a little hard to blame a minimum wage law that effects maybe 1% of the country. Especially since this trend toward self checkout is about a decade old.

Of course higher employment costs do effect decisions at the margin. So it's not like there's no effect. But basically this becomes a political Rorschach's test.


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First place I saw this fully implemented was a high end Italian bistro at JFK. Before that just for wine lists.
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Steve Miller
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Might be a good time to talk about the Robot tax. Call it a kiosk tax if you like.

Some one is going to have to support a whole lot of people who can't get jobs once this trend takes hold.
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The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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