McDonalds Replacing Cashiers With A.I.
We are going to start to see more and more of this. I'm a Regional Manager for restaurants in LA. Starting July 1 minimum wage is $12. Its ramping up to $14 in the coming years. That's if they don't vote to hike it up even further!
Imagine being a Server who works for tips and gets paid $12 an hour plus tips. If the Minimum Wage keeps increasing I will stop managing and end up making more money!
Thats what people don't realize. As wages increase for lower skilled positions, people with higher skills start to think, " Hey, I can get paid the same if not more for a bartending job without the stress of my current job." It will push low skilled workers out of the workforce from both sides...Having to compete with higher skilled workers and being replaced with A.I.
It's happening now. Read the Zero Hedge article here:
I have been near a srore that's had them for 6 months the touch screens stink and the reciept always malfuntions.I'm sure they will fix it.
Easily fixable. Just a small hurdle in the grand scheme of things
I like the idea of automated ordering because now there can't be any confusion if the server doesn't understand exactly what the customer is saying. I'm not sure if you're familiar with Wawa's, but you can customize an entire sandwich on a screen and it's prepared and served super fast. Definitely gets people in and out quicker, especially since it's not limited to one or two people working the counter. What I wonder, is how long will it be until the food production itself becomes automated?
Closer than you think. I have been keeping my eye on it. Bots can now make pizza and burgers with no human help. They are creating bots that mimic high end chefs with complete recipes for inside your house.
Yeah, I actually watched a short bit on some company in California that is trying to completely automate pizza service. Pretty crazy potential.
Rich getting richer and poor forced to become smarter.
The first part is right. unfortunately the poor arent becoming smarter fast enough and the economy and automation is passing them by. There is literally a few work capable generations that are completely lost that we are going to have to support.
Maybe someone should of explained to the idiots who demanded 15 dollars an hour that if they kept pushing for it and got it like they did in California that would end up being replaced by a robot. Now you see the push for a Universal Income for everyone coming soon.
I have this conversation daily with my managers. "You don't know what you don't know." These workers don't understand the economics. They want something without understanding the consequences.
They have no concept on how we earn money control money and or spend that money. They have this socialist paradise running around their heads thinking its all wonderful in the end. I just wished people would understand that money is not going to solve this issue. Giving people more per hour only is going to increase prices across the board on everything and we'll be stuck right where we are now except you got people screaming they need 25 dollars an hour next.
Looks like a Sonic.
In Russia they started using such AI something about 3 or 4 years ago. For me as a customer it's faster to make an order and send it to the "kitchen" by myself. But for the staff this is not a good thing, for sure.
A business is run by 2 questions. How can we make a customers experience better in (pick your sector)? And how can we make money off of it?
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