Progressive Econ 101 Fail: Wendy’s Serves Up Big Kiosk Expansion As Wage Hikes Hit

[Acebb]

#Fight for 15!!

Wendy’s said that self-service ordering kiosks will be made available across its 6,000-plus restaurants in the second half of the year as minimum wage hikes and a tight labor market push up wages.

It will be up to franchisees whether to deploy the labor-saving technology, but Wendy’s President Todd Penegor did note that some franchise locations have been raising prices to offset wage hikes.


These jobs that will be lost are never coming back. No worry, thanks to Dems those who lose their jobs can just get 99 weeks of unemployment then go on disability.

 

[Willie99]

when minimum wages are increased, people working those jobs receive pink slips

100% of the time

and you know what? the fucking idiots will make the same arguments and cause the same damage in 2020 too

Pavlov's dog

 

[Willie99]

what kills me is how the fucking idiots never once take into consideration the business model for the fast food industry, it can't work with idiot politicians trying to run the show

next week, some fucking idiot will say something like "we're going to close the tax loopholes that encourage businesses to automate replacing minimum wage employees", and libtard nation will start chanting "low income lives matter"

fucking idiots

we need to find a cure

 

[festeringZit]

Liberalism sucks ass.

 

[SheriffJoe]

when minimum wages are increased, people working those jobs receive pink slips

100% of the time

and you know what? the fucking idiots will make the same arguments and cause the same damage in 2020 too

Pavian's dog

k:

 

[ScottL]

I'm really gonna miss the kid who handles my money and then palms 11 of my french fries.

 

[guitarjosh]

what kills me is how the fucking idiots never once take into consideration the business model for the fast food industry, it can't work with idiot politicians trying to run the show

next week, some fucking idiot will say something like "we're going to close the tax loopholes that encourage businesses to automate replacing minimum wage employees", and libtard nation will start chanting "low income lives matter"

fucking idiots

we need to find a cure

What kills me is that the left never looks at labor as just another product that is being bought and sold in the market. Creating a "living wage" makes as much sense as making a minimum price for the cost of a car to ensure that no car maker will ever need a bailout. If no one will spend $55,000 on a $20,000 car, why would anyone spend $55,000 on $20,000 worth of labor?

 

[hehateme82]

What kills me is that the left never looks at labor as just another product that is being bought and sold in the market. Creating a "living wage" makes as much sense as making a minimum price for the cost of a car to ensure that no car maker will ever need a bailout. If no one will spend $55,000 on a $20,000 car, why would anyone spend $55,000 on $20,000 worth of labor?

 

[SheriffJoe]

Building robot McDonald's staff 'cheaper' than hiring workers on minimum wage

The worrying forecast could threaten jobs at the fast food franchise, a former CEO of the company warns

A former McDonald's CEO warned that robots will take over staff jobs at the fast food empire - because it's cheaper than employing humans.

Ed Rensi has said that buying highly skilled robotics is a cheaper alternative than employing people on minimum wage to work in the company's worldwide restaurants.
He warned that huge job losses are imminent, and commented that it would be 'common sense' to replace humans in the workplace.

This comes as a study into the future of human employment has predicted a surge in machine-led work such as robotic counsellors, body part makers and virtual lawyers.

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A battery-powered robot serves dishes up to 8 hour a day in a restaurant in Shenyang, capital of northeast China's Liaoning ProvinceThe worrying research, by professor of management practice at London Business School, Lynda Gratton, and futurologist David A. Smith, suggests that humans will be replaced because robots are able to produce better results.

Prof Gratton said: "Studies have suggested that a third of jobs in Europe will be replaced by technology over the next two decades."

Robots

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If the recent comments are to be believed, McDonald's staff could face the same fate.

Former CEO Ed Rensi said: "I was at the National Restaurant Show yesterday and if you look at the robotic devices that are coming into the restaurant industry.

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"It’s cheaper to buy a $35,000 (£24,000) robotic arm than it is to hire an employee who’s inefficient making $15 (£10.20) an hour bagging French fries.

"It's nonsense and it’s very destructive and it’s inflationary and it’s going to cause a job loss across this country like you’re not going to believe."

He told FOX: "It’s not just going to be in the fast food business. Franchising is the best business model in the United States.

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"It’s dependent on people that have low job skills that have to grow. Well if you can’t get people a reasonable wage, you’re going to get machines to do the work.

"It’s just common sense. It’s going to happen whether you like it or not. And the more you push this it’s going to happen faster."

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A robot delivers food on a hospital ward

Read more: Meet the hi-tech ROBOT cancer doctor saving hundreds of lives

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Demonstrators demanding an increase in the minimum wage protest in front of a McDonald's restaurant in ChicagoGetty

A demonstration for workers' rightsProf Gratton added: "As middle-skilled roles disappear, workers may find that the 'rung' above them no longer exists, and that the career ladder may begin to look more like a career web.

"The ultimate implication is that workers cannot now expect to gain seniority by moving 'up', but rather moving sideways by gaining additional complex skills."

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/building-robot-mcdonalds-staff-cheaper-8044106

 

[SheriffJoe]

I'd rather be served by a professional robot than some bitter ugly entitled vtard.

Progressives ruin everything. EVERYTHING.

 

[SheriffJoe]

Democrat economics:

 

[Willie99]

I'm actually somewhat embarrassed for this guy, and our public education system that obviously failed him

 

[Dave007inVegas]

I'm actually somewhat embarrassed for this guy, and our public education system that obviously failed him

Somehow I don’t think he cares if you’re somewhat embarrassed for him.

 

[Willie99]

Somehow I don’t think he cares if you’re somewhat embarrassed for him.

no, he wouldn't be, if he had any self respect he wouldn't act so stupid

and self respect is a prerequisite for being embarrassed

the mayor of libtardville is in the same boat

 

[Willie99]

I worked at McDonald's for 7 years, they didn't hold be back, they hooked me up

 

[Dave007inVegas]

I worked at McDonald's for 7 years, they didn't hold be back, they hooked me up

Typically that’s the way it worked back then when your parents weren’t wealthy.


Today it’s considered demeaning.

 

[SheriffJoe]

Typically that’s the way it worked back then when your parents weren’t wealthy.

Today it’s considered demeaning.

The results are predictable:

Millennials Are Setting New Records—for Living With Their Parents

More women are living at home today than in 1940

http://time.com/4108515/millennials-live-at-home-parents/

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Just another reason why life was better in the 50s or even the 80s.

 

[PatsFan1283]

How is wanting $15 an hour for working in retail or fast food any different than wanting the manufacturing base from post-WW2 up to the 80s to return by imposing tariffs and regulations? The only reason many of those jobs would pay well today would be with union or gov't intervention.

Either way, you are asking for the government to step in and distort the market in your favor.

 

[vitterd]

If it were up to guys like con man Joe, old man Dave and idiot Willie......everybody still be in horse and buggy. Thank God these old dudes are leaving soon.

 

[MantisToboggan]

How is wanting $15 an hour for working in retail or fast food any different than wanting the manufacturing base from post-WW2 up to the 80s to return by imposing tariffs and regulations? The only reason many of those jobs would pay well today would be with union or gov't intervention.

Either way, you are asking for the government to step in and distort the market in your favor.

Boom. Patsfan dropping the truth.

It all comes down to being able to relate. These Trump voters can relate to older blue collar workers who have lost their jobs to innovation. They feel empathy for them. Can't relate to a 23 year old African American kid flipping burgers.

If politicans were honest, they'd come out and say free trade/innovation/efficiency is going to benefit 90% of you. It's going to bone the other 10%. We're all going to have to chip in to help the 10%.