New McDonald's In Phoenix Run Entirely By Robots
Moochers want $15 min. wage...they now get nothing. Anyone could see this coming. Already in this article one person is saying "burn it down"
I'm curious where in Phoenix this will be built. Haven't been to McDonald's in years
I'm curious where in Phoenix this will be built. Haven't been to McDonald's in years
The robot is to replace the person who thinks McD's is a career job, not a place to get a start. It is too bad it will do both because minimum wage is all ready pricing High School kids out.
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"Phoenix, AZ — After seeing a decline in earnings for the first time in nine years, McDonald’s plans to do something no other store of its kind has ever done before; open a store run entirely by robots.
The store is set to open July 4th in Phoenix, Arizona ..."
Because I knew that, as soon as the strike ended, the toll rates would go up.
In the end, automatic toll collection machines replaced virtually all of the toll booth coin collectors and probably shifted just part of their previous total cost to the maintenance folks that serviced the machines.
McDonalds is just a few years late to the realization, but the $15/hour strikes and protests are undoubtedly the driving force for Change (no pun intended) today.
Hey, Obama wanted Change, didn't he? McDonald's is now going to further automate it!
Now that the robots are here, they won't demand $15 per hour, just a little oil now and then. This may be the first giant step toward the predicted robot singularity.
Jan, one of the few
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I still can't understand why the garbage trucks with their new claw-grabber-dumper mechanisms aren't reading a bar code on my trash bin or recycling bin, then weighing the net contents and charging me accordingly!
Ah, maybe some day...
News Examiner is a satirical web site.
That said the kiosks are real. My company (well the one I work for) is producing the prototypes for these.
The value is not completely driven by obsoleting $15/hour moochers. There is also an increase in per transaction sales. The kiosk never forgets to ask you to Super Suze the order of if you want an apple pie.
http://money.cnn.com/2014/05/22/technolo...
Again the satire is indeed there, the article was written a year ago.
Here is one from the Guardian, I do not know their quality, but seems to indicate this is an ongoing issue that pops up regularly:
http://www.theguardian.com/money/us-mone...
But that's the idea. Paying someone thirty thousand dollars a year just to be a short-order cook is never economically viable. Or if it is, that tells us the dollar isn't worth beans.
member ("55 minutes ago") and we're glad you're
here! -- john
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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-12...
you should also check out his blog of his same name. Rich Hoffman never stops. lol neither does kathyw. :)
One way to make it safer, make it slow. The cargo transfer system could be geared to move 'at a snails pace' when absolutely maxed out. If it takes a full minute for a box to be lowered from the truck and it hits you, um, should have moved I guess... and at this pace, probably still faster than human cargo handlers in total, and doesn't mind working nights when the place is basically vacant.
Next thing will be some gov entity saying the robots are a hazard, or pass a law that each robot needs to have a human wet nurse.
Robots can't make cars, either.
Think of the new job openings for robotics technicians. I assume it's debit or credit only otherwise is one of them RoboCop?
Though not a bad idea!
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