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toothpetardHamilton Nolan
5/16/16 1:41pm
I can’t wait for the pies

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  EvenBaggierTrousers4toothpetard
  5/16/16 1:42pm
  How did you travel to the future???
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  MBCocktoothpetard
  5/16/16 1:42pm
  Pretty soon they will allow you behind the counter and tell you to grill your own.
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DontCallItAComeBackHamilton Nolan
5/16/16 1:40pm
You’re welcome Bernie!!! This is EXACTLY what will happens with those idiots and their $15 an hour wage dogma. It isn’t economic.
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  Flying Squid (I hate me more than you do.)DontCallItAComeBack
  5/16/16 1:41pm
  Yes, that’s why this happened. Not because of inevitable progress in computers and robotics.
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  RobertMadooDontCallItAComeBack
  5/16/16 1:45pm
  “It isn’t economic.”
  
  What....does that mean?
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phunkshunHamilton Nolan
5/16/16 1:47pm
You know..I don’t eat that shit anyway. So be it.

I would necessarily feel a twinge of guilt for even saying that, seeing as how pro-labor I actually am...but the people that are going to stuff their gullets at this place are the same people that:

A) Make me out to be the enemy because I am carrying a union card and am Pro Democratic Party due to it.

B) Also carry a union card and still, mind bogglingly, vote republican.

Man I never used to be this polarized..
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  Jeb! & The Hologramsphunkshun
  5/16/16 2:11pm
  You think the only people who eat burgers are Union-affiliated Republicans?
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  phunkshunJeb! & The Holograms
  5/16/16 2:12pm
  No, I do not. That was a single serving of spite from me for this day.
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wakkawakkawakka2Hamilton Nolan
5/16/16 2:41pm
How is a universal basic income not socialism with a nice slick coat of paint on it?
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  You might be wrong.wakkawakkawakka2
  5/16/16 3:50pm
  What’s wrong with socialism? Like, you know all the programs that basic income would replace are socialist in nature, right?
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  R. damascenawakkawakkawakka2
  5/16/16 4:09pm
  Because the means of production are still privately owned.
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PopChipsHamilton Nolan
5/16/16 2:56pm
One critical thing to remember here is that these kiosks are not being driven by customer demand. Customers have been demanding more personalized service, not less. If implemented, the kiosks are being driven solely by the restaurant which will doom them to failure.

10 years ago, to cut cost and supposedly increase speed of service, McDonald’s and a few other chains tested outsourcing drive-thru order taking. So, when you pulled up to the menu board, the person taking your order wasn’t located in the restaurant. In some instances it was a person working from their own somewhere in low labor cost USA or in even lower labor cost India. It wasn’t popular with customers; hence, it didn’t catch on.

Labor savings practices implemented by the restaurant have to receive a buy-in from customers. When we asked customers to begin filling their own drinks by placing the soda machine in the customer area (a labor savings and a perceived increase in speed of service by customers), the buy-in was free refills.

Customers aren’t asking for these kiosks so unless they come with some buy-in for the customer, all you’re going to do is make them mad as their speed of service slows and they receive less personal service.
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  You might be wrong.PopChips
  5/16/16 3:47pm
  What kind of moron wants “personal service” when they’re getting fast food?
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Tidal TownHamilton Nolan
5/16/16 1:55pm
This was going to happen, minimum wage increase or not. The technology, both investment and maintenance, is only going to get more affordable. We’re reaching the point where it’s just more economically viable (from a business standpoint) to deploy automated kiosks. I don’t think they work in all cases, for example: A fast food joint like Chick-fil-a that makes customer service and cornerstone of their method (say what you will about the company, but they do claim to make that a big part of their business model) or at a grocery store when you have 20+ items; the self checkout line is awful for that.

But buying a couple things? Yeah, I’m going to the self checkout line. Ordering food? If the self order setup is good and there’s a line at the counter, yeah, I’ll do that instead. Not at Panera ‘cause their order kiosk sucks, but at Sheetz? Yeah. I think they’ve let you order subs via touchscreen for like a decade.
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  N64commentorTidal Town
  5/16/16 3:21pm
  Yeah its weird when people are like “How are they gonna teach people how to use it!?”
  
  Like there aren’t 400 Wawas/Sheetz/Quikchecks already doing the same thing.
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Rom RombertsHamilton Nolan
5/16/16 1:49pm
Joe Wenderoth’s “Letters to Wendy’s” couldn’t really exist in that machine-controlled future...

“Today I bought a small Frosty. This may not seem significant, but the fact is: I’m lactose intolerant. Purchasing a small Frosty, then, is no different than hiring someone to beat me. No different in essence. The only difference, which may or may not be essential, is that, during my torture, I am gazing upon your beautiful employees.”

“Today I bought a salad just to look at it, smell it, rub it on my face. Again I’m feeling like a doctor, but now the feeling is clearer—I feel like an ancient doctor, with ancient ideas about what need be done. I asked the register-girl if it would be possible to have small holes drilled into my skull so that good strong coffee could be poured down on to my brain.”

“So many drive-through people. Of course, there is really no such thing as driving through—one drives by. And who would drive by a Wendy’s? Who would be so ridiculous as to assume that he could simply extract what he needs from a visit without actually making the visit, without standing awhile inside the blessed delusion of a manned source? How fast the dead learn to bury the dead!”
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IAMBlastedBiggsLostBurnerHamilton Nolan
5/16/16 1:49pm
You watch—within a month of them coming into use, some dumbass will still try and blame the kiosk for fucking up their order. Or claim there was a pube put in there. You know...in an unpleasant sort of way.
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LastScene86Hamilton Nolan
5/16/16 1:49pm
OK, but do I still have to stand in line again to get a refill because Wendy’s refuses to put the soda machine out in the restaurant?

MY 4 FOR $4 IS VERY PARCHING WENDY'S!
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  Armageddon T. ThunderbirdLastScene86
  5/16/16 1:55pm
  The recently remodeled Wendy’s near me installed Pininfarina machines. Befuddles the fuck out of old people.
  
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  LastScene86Armageddon T. Thunderbird
  5/16/16 2:10pm
  I love that the design studio behind some beautiful Ferraris has decided to focus all their attention on letting me mix 15 different Cokes and feel sexy while doing it.
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JustDidIt2Hamilton Nolan
5/16/16 1:41pm
“The process of robots taking our jobs has begun.”

Has begun? It’s been happening for decades. Now it is the fast food industry’s turn in the barrel. No one should be surprised by this. This outcome is exactly what was promised when the push for $15/hr started.
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  RobertMadooJustDidIt2
  5/16/16 1:46pm
  Yes, before the push for $15/hour started, birds would land on the shoulders of factory workers to sing them sweet tunes while they labored.
  
  It’s not like the elites have been moving their factories around the globe attempting to get as close to slave labor as possible.
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  m9105826RobertMadoo
  5/16/16 1:57pm
  Exactly, robots aren’t the problem here, unregulated greed is. Looking at human workers as numbers on a spreadsheet is a dangerous way to run an economy. Pushing for perpetual profit growth at any cost is an unrealistic system in the long run.
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