Me, , "Yes, but there will be humans monitoring the robots some where, in case a robot has a hiccup. Which means, more robots run and service fast food chains, and more chains can open serving more food per neighborhood.. The human workforce becomes more techie trained and a 15 dollar an hour job may become even greater paying for the lucky individuals who are the robot support staff. Old jobs taken away but an almost equal amount of new jobs created per new stores opening across from each other as per demand.."
(The robots are coming, and they will take jobs, just as new technologies have since pretty much the day the wheel was invented.
CEO Steve Easterbrook has said that the chain's automation efforts won't lead to it eliminating human workers.
That might be true in the short term, but ultimately, it makes no sense for the company to pay people to do what robots do better and -- after a big capital investment -- cheaper. That does not mean McDonald's will be eliminating all humans in its restaurants, but eventually, there will be fewer of them.
"It's cheaper to buy a $35,000 robotic arm than it is to hire an employee who's inefficient making $15 an hour bagging french fries," former McDonald's USA CEO Ed Rensi said in May on Fox Business Network's Mornings with Maria.
That sounds like a dire prediction, and it could be, but pretty much all of recorded history suggests it's going to happen. What Rensi said simply makes sense. A tablet can take your order better, faster, and with more accuracy than a human. The same is almost certainly true of producing fries, burgers, and the rest of the chain's fare.
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