Wendy's is replacing its lowest-paid workers with robots

[Spike]

How's that mandatory $15 minimum wage working out for you?



Citing concerns about the rising cost of labor, Wendy's President Todd Penegor told Investor's Business Daily (IBD) about plans to automate the ordering process in company restaurants.

Employees who once took orders from customers will be replaced by self-service kiosks. Mobile ordering and payment apps will also cut down on employee hours.

Wendy's is not alone in the fast food world in deciding to cut the costs and difficulties of human beings out of its ordering process. McDonald's has been testing similar kiosks on a smaller scale.

http://www.businessinsider.com/wendys-workers-will-lose-jobs-to-robots-2016-5

 

[IndySteel]

At least the kiosks use proper enunciation.

 

[Steelr4evr]

...this just in.Robots demand robot bathroom for robots only.

 

[Roy92040]

That's okay we're going to tax the robots now.

 

[Turd Ferguson]

That's okay we're going to tax the robots now.

I read that somewhere else this week....tax the robots. Oh, so we're taxing machines now? OK....tax the crane lifting sheet metal, tax the transport truck carrying coal, tax the soda machine down the hall. I get it, we already have excise taxes in states for owning a vehicle....I'm talking additional tax on operating the vehicle for labor. TAX EVERYTHING!!!!!

 

[Spike]

You can't trust anything in the food marketing biz

 

[Steeltime]

I read that somewhere else this week....tax the robots. Oh, so we're taxing machines now? OK....tax the crane lifting sheet metal, tax the transport truck carrying coal, tax the soda machine down the hall. I get it, we already have excise taxes in states for owning a vehicle....I'm talking additional tax on operating the vehicle for labor. TAX EVERYTHING!!!!!

"Hmmm ... sounds like that guy has a plan."

 

[Roy92040]

I read that somewhere else this week....tax the robots. Oh, so we're taxing machines now? OK....tax the crane lifting sheet metal, tax the transport truck carrying coal, tax the soda machine down the hall. I get it, we already have excise taxes in states for owning a vehicle....I'm talking additional tax on operating the vehicle for labor. TAX EVERYTHING!!!!!

I think Bill Gates recommended that about a week ago.


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[MTC]

The beginning of the end of human retail.
wall-E predicted it

#illuminati
#conspiracy

 

[deljzc]

The way you order hoagies at Wawa is the way every fast food chain is going to go.

Four touchscreen menu order computers. You pick everything you want, all your fixings... you take the receipt, go pay, wait until the food builders call your number, pick it up and leave.

You will still need people to make the food because we like special orders as a society and I don't think any robot will be able to make a hoagie with all the infinite possible combinations of topping to my satisfaction over a person.

The problem has never been fast-food worker or lack their of. The problem is we've convinced ourselves working in fast food is supposed to be a full time job that can pay for a family. It never was meant for that. Not every job is meant to support a family. Some are meant to be for young adults as entry level positions WHILE you do something else.

Unfortunately, we have let in so many immigrants they they have pushed out of what traditionally have been "teenager" jobs and turned them into full time jobs and now complain that those same jobs can't keep them and their families afloat. Plus we've pandered (as a culture) to our children that part time, low skill, low pay work is "below them" or "inhibits their schoolwork".

My friends and I worked in fast food, at the mall, at the movie theater, as construction laborers during summers and even during the school year on weekends. You walk into a fast food restaurant in summer now, you'd be hard pressed to find 1 out of 5 workers be under 20. Instead 4 out of 5 are hispanic with families. That's NOT the jobs we need to have immigrants for despite what liberal America tells you.

 

[Spike]

As I was saying...


DNA Test Shows Subway’s Oven-Roasted Chicken Is Only 50 Percent Chicken

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — If you think that chicken sandwich you ordered at Subway did not fully taste like fowl, you may have been right.

The results showed the Oven Roasted Chicken patties averaged 53.6 percent chicken DNA while the Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki strips came in at 42.8 percent.

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2017...ways-oven-roasted-chicken-is-only-50-chicken/

 

[Confluence]

As I was saying...


DNA Test Shows Subway’s Oven-Roasted Chicken Is Only 50 Percent Chicken

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — If you think that chicken sandwich you ordered at Subway did not fully taste like fowl, you may have been right.

The results showed the Oven Roasted Chicken patties averaged 53.6 percent chicken DNA while the Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki strips came in at 42.8 percent.

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2017...ways-oven-roasted-chicken-is-only-50-chicken/

The study was done in my town. Finally something useful from that damn overfunded liberal arts waste of taxpayer monies.

Eat at Timmies! Lol


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[SteelChip]

I read that somewhere else this week....tax the robots. Oh, so we're taxing machines now? OK....tax the crane lifting sheet metal, tax the transport truck carrying coal, tax the soda machine down the hall. I get it, we already have excise taxes in states for owning a vehicle....I'm talking additional tax on operating the vehicle for labor. TAX EVERYTHING!!!!!

Actually we already do tax the machines. I ran a distribution center in South Florida and they taxed all my forklifts and the yard dog every year.

Can't remember what it was called...Real Property assessment maybe ?

 

[Roy92040]

Actually we already do tax the machines. I ran a distribution center in South Florida and they taxed all my forklifts and the yard dog every year.

Can't remember what it was called...Real Property assessment maybe ?

Sounds like they are taxing them for their worth. Not for the support and work they are providing.

 

[Stewey]

...this just in.Robots demand robot bathroom for robots only.

What about the transrobots?

 

[Ron Burgundy]

That isn't all that's being replaced.

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/life...-may-change-the-tourism-industry-forever.html

Sex robot holiday resorts may change the tourism industry forever


The concept comes after many have previously called clean prostitution a potential advantage of sex robots.

Technology has been transforming several human experiences be it communication, dating, interaction or even addressing important issues. How people have sex has also changed with technology as pornography being called harmful while sex toys and virtual sex have come as a revelation.

The rise of sex dolls has been a cause for rejoice for many and a thing to worry about for some critics as experts say they may replace human partners in bed and clean prostitution being cited as an advantage of sex robots with artificial intelligence.

A new concept, which promises to have an impact on travelling, is that of sex robot holiday resorts as experts say men on vacation will flock to these cyborg hotels where sex dolls with lifelike skin will be on offer and popular tourist destinations like Amsterdam and Bangkok may benefit from this.

Sexologists suggest that it could introduce a new experience which is what drives sex tourism globally as developers are creating more realistic sex robots which can also emulate different moods and emotions.

The new robots can be charming, witty and highly likely to fall in love with the individual and has 12 personality traits that can be activated manually.

 

[RollRed]

How's that mandatory $15 minimum wage working out for you?



Citing concerns about the rising cost of labor, Wendy's President Todd Penegor told Investor's Business Daily (IBD) about plans to automate the ordering process in company restaurants.

Employees who once took orders from customers will be replaced by self-service kiosks. Mobile ordering and payment apps will also cut down on employee hours.

Wendy's is not alone in the fast food world in deciding to cut the costs and difficulties of human beings out of its ordering process. McDonald's has been testing similar kiosks on a smaller scale.

http://www.businessinsider.com/wendys-workers-will-lose-jobs-to-robots-2016-5

When did they raise it? I'm pretty sure the federal minimum wage is still $7.25 an hour. I guess that's too much too. It's true robots don't show up late, report off, or require a paycheck. You know what else they don't do? Buy ******' hamburgers. I look forward to the day when these companies are forced to close because every one of them got so good at running the store with less and less workers that one day they unlock the doors and realize they have no customers because nobody has any money in their pocket to buy whatever bullshit it is they sell because they and all the other corporate ***** laid them all off.

 

[Stewey]

When did they raise it? I'm pretty sure the federal minimum wage is still $7.25 an hour. I guess that's too much too. It's true robots don't show up late, report off, or require a paycheck. You know what else they don't do? Buy ******' hamburgers. I look forward to the day when these companies are forced to close because every one of them got so good at running the store with less and less workers that one day they unlock the doors and realize they have no customers because nobody has any money in their pocket to buy whatever bullshit it is they sell because they and all the other corporate ***** laid them all off.

Yet millions of illegals will sneak in and somehow find jobs. Not with Trump!

Build that wall!

 

[Ron Burgundy]

When did they raise it? I'm pretty sure the federal minimum wage is still $7.25 an hour. I guess that's too much too. It's true robots don't show up late, report off, or require a paycheck. You know what else they don't do? Buy ******' hamburgers. I look forward to the day when these companies are forced to close because every one of them got so good at running the store with less and less workers that one day they unlock the doors and realize they have no customers because nobody has any money in their pocket to buy whatever bullshit it is they sell because they and all the other corporate ***** laid them all off.

You mean like what happened in all the coal mining towns in KY, OH, PA, and WV that Bomma put out of business? But we will have "job training programs".

 

[DBS1970]

When did they raise it? I'm pretty sure the federal minimum wage is still $7.25 an hour. I guess that's too much too. It's true robots don't show up late, report off, or require a paycheck. You know what else they don't do? Buy ******' hamburgers. I look forward to the day when these companies are forced to close because every one of them got so good at running the store with less and less workers that one day they unlock the doors and realize they have no customers because nobody has any money in their pocket to buy whatever bullshit it is they sell because they and all the other corporate ***** laid them all off.

They are only replacing the counter help.

 

[Steelerfan]

The way you order hoagies at Wawa is the way every fast food chain is going to go.

Dude, you're from Delaware. Its subs, not hoagies.

 

[Tim Steelersfan]

The beginning of the end of human retail.
wall-E predicted it

#illuminati
#conspiracy

This is the very business I work in every day, selling IoT to Retailers (Internet of Things). Amazon already has a cashier-less store. Self checkout will soon become automated, fully. You walk in, pick up your items, leave the store. You get a receipt sent to your phone. Shelves are smart enough now to know when to "re-order." Refrigerators and freezers talk to us, letting us know before they break that they are going to break. Vendors who used to show up and charge us 4 hours to replace aerators on faucets are now tracked and we know to the minute how long they spent fixing our store, eliminating fraud. We use cameras to take a photo of you at check out that have 97% accuracy on determining your age, race and gender. Couple that with cash register/sales data and companies can revolutionize their supply chains, ordering, product selections, etc. Amazing analytics solutions continually farm social media, news sites, weather sites, etc and drive (by the store) critical up to the minute information - "5K race 1.3 miles from your store tomorrow, stock up on water" or "Major snowstorm headed your way" or "riots just broke out 2 miles away." Robots are being used to perpetually cycle through stores and take inventory of everything on shelves using video and you as a consumer can view the products on the shelves via the website. Sensors are being built into the clothing of people still remaining in the stores to track their health, safety,location.

These types of innovations and thousands of others have perennial giants like Walmart shaking in their shoes. Retail is changing and the likes of Amazon are revolutionizing shopping. Malls are dying. The Walmarts are hurting. Social media is critical to retail but most are not properly leveraging it. Drones are coming for delivery and fleet monitoring (I literally have a drone-IoT meeting upcoming I'm helping to drive).

It's coming fast folks. Real fast.

 

[Superman]

This is the very business I work in every day, selling IoT to Retailers (Internet of Things). Amazon already has a cashier-less store. Self checkout will soon become automated, fully. You walk in, pick up your items, leave the store. You get a receipt sent to your phone. Shelves are smart enough now to know when to "re-order." Refrigerators and freezers talk to us, letting us know before they break that they are going to break. Vendors who used to show up and charge us 4 hours to replace aerators on faucets are now tracked and we know to the minute how long they spent fixing our store, eliminating fraud. We use cameras to take a photo of you at check out that have 97% accuracy on determining your age, race and gender. Couple that with cash register/sales data and companies can revolutionize their supply chains, ordering, product selections, etc. Amazing analytics solutions continually farm social media, news sites, weather sites, etc and drive (by the store) critical up to the minute information - "5K race 1.3 miles from your store tomorrow, stock up on water" or "Major snowstorm headed your way" or "riots just broke out 2 miles away." Robots are being used to perpetually cycle through stores and take inventory of everything on shelves using video and you as a consumer can view the products on the shelves via the website. Sensors are being built into the clothing of people still remaining in the stores to track their health, safety,location.

These types of innovations and thousands of others have perennial giants like Walmart shaking in their shoes. Retail is changing and the likes of Amazon are revolutionizing shopping. Malls are dying. The Walmarts are hurting. Social media is critical to retail but most are not properly leveraging it. Drones are coming for delivery and fleet monitoring (I literally have a drone-IoT meeting upcoming I'm helping to drive).

It's coming fast folks. Real fast.

i have it on good authority that you're just a racist, dumb hick, though.

 

[BAS]

Dude, you're from Delaware. Its subs, not hoagies.

Yeah... but Wawa calls them hoagies -- so the usage is correct no matter what state you're from.

 

[Tim Steelersfan]

i have it on good authority that you're just a racist, dumb hick, though.

You should trust your sources. If they say it on the internet, it must be true.