A McDonald’s restaurant in Phoenix, Arizona is employing nothing but robots to run its daily operations and entire workforce. (AP Photo/Dennis System)
The store is set to open July 4th in Phoenix, Arizona once the state-of-the-art robot remodel is complete. The restaurant will still employ a small team to insure all of the robots are working correctly, the food and cleaning supplies remain stocked along with removing the money collected by the robots. Visitors to the restaurant will see these new robots working in harmony at a speed of 50 times faster than the average human employee, with no chance of error. If the test launch for the store is a success, people can expect to see robots located in every store all over the country and at restaurants around the world.
The store’s new manager, Peter Gibbons, told CNN that he has worked with the robots at a product development facility in San Francisco for over six months now and speaks highly of the machines.
“These things are great! They get their work done in a fast and orderly manner, plus they don’t ask for cigarette breaks.”
36-year-old Paul Horner, a spokesman for McDonald’s told reporters that because of the demand for a $15/hr minimum wage, the company has been playing with the idea of a restaurant run entirely by robots for years and believes their “McRobots” are the answer.
“With the high demand for a wage of $15/hr and the protests getting worse every day, this is something we had to implement. Plus with the tremendous margin of human error, poor hygiene, lack of education, laziness, as well as the recent advancements in artificial intelligence it just make sense to automate our restaurants now rather than later.”
Local Phoenix resident, 52-year-old Tom Downey, who has been unemployed for the last 3 years, was excited about the opening of a nearby McDonald’s until he heard about the robots.
“Now that they hire only robots, I don’t know what I can even do. I don’t have an education, a car, and now I’m not gonna even be able to get a burger job. Just the thought of having to go to the state unemployment office and stand in line with those scumbags!”
With this decision, shareholders can finally expect to see their stocks on the rise once again since employee salaries are not only cut, but eliminated. By cutting employees, McDonald’s says it is projecting to make a full financial turnaround and see their stock (MCD) return to $105/share which was originally set back in 2014. In the U.S., first quarter comparable sales decreased 2.6% as product and promotional offers did not meet expectations. U.S. operating income for the quarter declined 11%, reflecting weak sales and the impact of restructuring and restaurant closing charges.
42-year-old Milton Waddams, an unemployed fast food worker, told reporters he is extremely disappointed by the decision to employ only robots instead of humans.
“The McDonald’s had my resume, I already completed two job interviews there and they said I was scheduled to work once the new store opened but they never called,” Waddams said. “I need a job I said, and I was told by Betty in HR they have my resume on file, but they never called, and Sandra told me to talk to Bill, and then I hear of the robots instead of regular humans and that’s not what I asked for. And I need the job I told them, but there’s robots, so now I’m going to have to find another place of employment. And they were big giant robots, and I said no, no robots at McDonald’s. I could set the building on fire.”
Former grill cook, Tom Smykowski, from the original Phoenix McDonald’s location before it was shutdown for robot repairs and upgrades, is still mad about losing his job.
“You know there are people in this world who don’t have to put up with all this,” Smykowski told FOX News. “You have to use your mind and come up with some really great idea. If anyone should know this, it’s me. I’m a people person, how many times do I have to say this? I deal with the damn customer so they don’t have to make their own burgers. I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people!”
Horner said he is excited to pave the way to a more automated workforce, hence a more reliable and affordable one.
“Robots are the future of McDonald’s in the United States and around the world,” Horner said, “Human workers want more pay and this has created giant protests which need our attention now before it is too late. Robots will decrease prices, increase productivity and make for better food.” Horner continued, “Human beings were not meant to stand and make burgers all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about about mission statements. Now I’ve had a chance to meet with some of these robots, and boy, they are just straight shooters with upper management written all over them.”
The new robot McDonald’s is located at 7th St & McDowell Rd in downtown Phoenix. McDonald’s says that if the store is a success, 25,000 more robot-run restaurants will be built in the next year. It is still unclear at this time what the robots look like or how customers will complete transactions as this information is being kept under strict confidentiality, but come July these questions will be answered. Will it be the right or wrong decision for McDonald’s? In the end, it will come down to what is best for the shareholders and the customers. The potential employees hoping to make a minimum wage of $15/hr, maybe not so much.
If you have any further questions about the robot-run establishment, McDonanld’s has setup a 24-hour robot hotline at (785) 273-0325.
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So, all those employees will be out of jobs??!! Way to go McDonald’s. First is was heart attacks and now you’re causing mass unemployment
Is it McDonald’s causing mass unemployment, or the people with no education that are demanding $15 to flip burgers causing it?
Their $15/hr comment is a scapegoat. That argument has only been had, and came to be in “some” states, in the past few years. They didn’t JUST now respond with this type of technology that takes YEARS to build and perfect. If anyone is so naive to believe this – they are the ones losing their fast food job.
Since when did McD’s become the welfare state. They re a for profit organization not a charity.
At least a robot won’t spit or put hair in your food.
how that $15 an hour demand working now?
Is it McD’s causing mass unemployment or the unskilled workers asking for $15/hr? Big question… hmmm, I don’t know, I would have to say both sides are to blame, no? Well, sure the workers are asking for $15 which is foolish. But they didn’t point it out in clear words in this article, but they did touch on the subject (without explaining why they mentioned it) – their share prices. Well, why’s that a concern? Well, unless if you’ve been sleeping under a rock for the last 10 years, you know about McD’s slow decline which has been accelerating rappidly as of late. It all started with that Super Size Me Movie – that was the moment when people started questioning what is it that they buy from this place called McD’s? Is it good for you? It went from that to people talking about all over the place and online, you know – P2P marketing – but in a bad way to them. You can find youtube videos all over the place showing Big Macs that don’t mold or rot 5 years after purchase, same with their fries. Is this really food? Or is it plastic? Or is it both? 100% beef? Last time I checked real beef rots in days, not years! Plus all the food they mix with the plastics in their “food” is GMO – and people don’t want that neither. So, people are more informed now, people don’t want to eat their Mc”food”. The article didn’t mention it, but unless if you haven’t heard – google it – McDonald’s has been losing money fast – their earnings have been steadily on decline for the last 11 consecutive months. This is their move of desperation trying to avoid bankruptcy – their workers expect $15 an hour, and their customers are fleeing their stores in droves – they don’t want their plastic, GMO, fake “food” anymore. They’re humpty dumpty, and not all the kings horses, or all the king’s men won’t be able to put him back together again! No, robots will not fix McHumpty Dumpty, people will continue to avoid the so called “food” they sell, and I think the introduction of robots just might even accelerate their decline even more – people don’t want their so called “food” no more, and now, people will feel insulted that the place won’t even employ their lazy teenage son who can’t get a job even if he looked for one.
Well put and totally agree!
McDonald’s is the most successful restaurant franchise operation that ever was in history. No personal claim here, this is a statistical fact. I don’t ever see McDonald’s dying in the lifetime of our generation. They will automate, appeal to a strategic target among the population, do something different to accommodate that target..in other words adapt…..and continue to prosper as they always have since the 1950’s. Honestly, an automated restaurant would be a franchise owner’s dream come true! I think that owning a business/franchise will be the wave of the future for those of us who maintain an income. Those that can’t adapt will simply just perish in the streets….
The lazy, dope-smoking kids can still get jobs cleaning the place.
I’ve got a job for you: learn how to build robots.
I’m lovin’ it!
Work sucks
I, for one, welcome our new burger overlords.
ha
Good! These boys need to go to college and get real jobs! Way to go McDonalds, I will be eating there more for sure
well i pay for my college now imagine if tomorrow i find out i will no longer work since robots do my fucking job
I submit that you have in fact never been to college or you would not have made this ignorant of a comment.
And I submit that smartertanhU is correct!
… Was ‘Steve’ working towards a degree in burger-flipping?! Must have gotten some wonderful help from his Guidance Counselor in High School, eh?
I think he means he pays for his schooling by flipping burgers. Nothing wrong with that.
“plusafdotcom” and “smartertanhU” you both need to go back to school. He clearly stated he is currently in college and paying for his education by flipping burgers.
So, “smartertanhU” if his comment is “ignorant” and means he couldn’t have possibly gone to college, your comment is beyond ignorant and fully in the realms of retarded and we can conclude that not only have you ever stepped through doors of a college, but you’re a high school dropout.
Nope, that is exactly the liberal drivel that the colleges are spitting out these days.
I submit that he has indeed been to college and is a fine example of why it’s no longer worth the inflated cost to attend unless you’re paying to learn a trade, engineering, computer science, pre-medicine, accounting or some other actually useful skill.
Um. To the STUPID folks. What Steve is trying to say is that what IF this starts to happen in other areas….NOT just “burger flipping”. Who knows if the aliens start to teach us how to make a robot work with “reasoning” and other intelligent skills. Ok…GO….to all the folks out there who haven’t lived or ever really educated themselves..
What about all the people that are going to college but have all the debt? Jobs like these help high school kids and college kids pay for college. How are they going to go to college if they get laid off. Not everybody has family that will pay for them. Some people have to pay for their own school. At the time this may be the only thing that will help them. All this is, is money for the company. They only want publicity, money for stock. Way to go mcdonalds to dehumanize society
McDonald’s of not a social welfare organization. It’s a profit making business whose first obligation is to maximize profit for its shareholders. The company has an absolute free market right to sidestep high wages for low skilled workers by using robots-kudos to them for having the backbone to do so on today’s political environment! I plan to give them more of my business as a shot in the arm for encouragement!… And encourage others to do so as well.
The line cook sounds like he could get a job at Initech
You know, you can just call me “Mike”
His dreams of working at McDonalds have been completely shattered. What the heck is wrong with this country?
This will definitely decrease prices, increase productivity and make the food better. Go robots!
It will not decrease prices you or I will pay for our big mac. Prices will if anything go up gradually so that those poor share holders will make more money. Someone has to make more money, it certainly won’t be those greedy employees anymore.
I remember when people thought items made in china was because it will save the consumer money since chinese labour is about 1/hr. Boy were they wrong. Eliminating the millions of US factory jobs saved US companies billions, cost consumers more overall for a far less quality product that they will have to replace more frequently now. Companies and their share holders made a massive win on that move, the middle class got stomped down to lower class.
You know how the robots revolted in Terminator? It’s only a matter of time before that happens at this McDonald’s. Everyone needs to move their family out of the United States NOW while they still have a fighting chance.
there was no robot revolt in terminator (you’re thinking of the matrix~). skynet was created to prevent wars, the fastest way to prevent war was to eliminate mankind. No humans, no wars.
Actually, I think the robot revolt was in “I, Robot” starring Will Smith.
It was the Cylons who revolted.
Well, I guess that means no more $15/hr for these lazy bums
Well first your name says it all – second you have either never been to a McDonalds or looked in the back and see what goes on. Lazy is not a term that I would use. I fell for their Management Program idea all I got was 8hrs a day with running my ass off to keep up with demand. If I wanted the training I would have to stay after work – on my own time to access the training from the intraweb that could not be accessed from home. You definitely come home at the end of the 10 hrs 8 hrs paid and 2 hours free a worn out person. Since I was a man with many years of Management experience I started at 9 dollars an hour with a promise of fast track entry into Management. I took this low pay and spent my own time and McDonalds didn’t follow through on their end. The main take away is that they work their asses off for little or nothing while the store (I worked at) netted 3 million a year.
They are in business to make money, not you.
So, McDonalds works people to the bone for low wages and “They are in business to make money…” But McDonalds workers demand a wage that is at the national poverty line and they’re lazy freeloaders who don’t work? What’s the whether like up your own ass?
I can see how you didn’t make it through the training program when you don’t even understand the difference between revenue and net.
I hear a lot of crying.
Yeah lazy is the last word they should use to lump all the workers there together. Some of those people work like dogs! When you go to the doctor and they want to know where you get all the bruises and burns like they want to get the cops involved. When the doctor says to you “you should be fine to work in 3 days (with a knee sprain) just standing there taking orders and your the one running your rear end off in the kitchen. People get stuck in some jobs because of certain situations. You can find slugs in any job no matter the skill level. Just know you are a better person. That you may have a look down your nose job but, you are trying your best which sometimes is better than some of the big dogs do!
AMEN! Educate these imbeciles Dan the man!
When i go to McDonald’s .. which is rarely, my experiences have been that more than 50% of my orders are incorrect … on my last visit the “sandwich assembler” forgot the tomato .. WTF. When ordering breakfast I once joked to a McDonald’s manager by handing her a $5 bill and saying “give me something” … when she looked at me quizically, I said “I never get what I order anyways” .. The sarcasm went right over her head.
I love it when they claim that the robots will do everything “with no chance of error”– I really wish that people would learn that having robots do everything will not mean that it will be done “with no chance of error” but rather that the errors will be based on the errors of the programmers (or based on what the inevitable hackers want done when the system is hacked).
Bob, I’m a law school educated individual and your “give me something” comment went right over my head too. Guess I’m stupid. But for once in your little minded, rock slithering of a substance, perhaps you could pull out a kind bone from your little minded head. Really? Must you be so insulting of someone else? I never look down on a man unless I’m there to help him/her up. You are part of the reason people suck. Who gives two shits if you didn’t get that extra pickle on your effing sandwich? NO ONE. Get over your little pampered, I must have been ass raped by my dad, self.
I think you mean “All over the world”.
This will cut down on labor costs, but will put a lot of people out of business… I don’t know what to think
Well this is gonna put a strain on taxes, welfare claims will skyrocket.
YEP! Not to mention CRIME! And soon we won’t be able to own a gun.
Mcdonalds makes good burgers
Humans Need Not Apply…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
Don’t we need a new economic system?
Try understanding the existing one, first.
The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is clear: To build and maintain those robots. — The Simpsons
how will the robot handle special order requests – “double the azidocarbonide, high frustose corn syrup, silic one, aluminium, etc.?”
This is just absolutely horrible
In 1971, when I was in high school, and making a $1.65 an hour, McDonald’s was considered a top notch job for teens that wanted to work, and could maintain decent grades at the sametime. Interestingly enough, when we were in school, and McDonald’s was open for business during the day, retirees who wanted to stay busy worked the shifts during school hours. During that same time in the history of the U.S., immigration was limited to those who could hold their own in this country, while high school students were taught a trade if they chose not to go to college or join the military.
Now fast forward to the “progressive” 21st century where foreigners that speak little or no English, head straight for the welfare and unemployment lines, and work in those jobs once held by high school students. They have no skills, they take money from our economy and ship it home to “their” countries (more than a few I’ve talked to have no interest in being U.S. citizens), and our education system has devalued a college education by telling everyone that they must go to college, which means that an AA or a BA really doesn’t mean much anymore to the point that employees with college degrees are only making 10.00 an hour. Now couple that with the losers that think they are entitled to 15.00 an hour for flipping burgers instead of gaining skills that justify a 15.00 an hour wage, along with liberals in political offices in cities such as Seattle and Los Angeles that force businesses to pay outrageous wages, and it does my heart good to see businesses, even businesses run by liberals push back and think outside the box to avoid paying 15.00 an hour for an ungrateful and unskilled loser that they hired.
Way to go Mickey D’s!
This is bullshit. Adjusted for inflation, $15.00 is about where the minimum wage should be. A well educated soul could certainly aim higher.
To the extent these highly profitable companies pay their employees poorly enough to qualify for food stamps shows who the real welfare queens really are.
Their shitty robot idea will not fly; it’s a glorified vending machine solution.
Machines are causing unemployment, but it will be a good thing. Human beings shouldn’t do that kind of soul killing and demeaning work. Humans should have free access to all the education they can use and we should build a bright future, get off this rock!
Besides… I think this is a faux article.
hmmm… interesting
I don’t like Fox News
Odd part of the $15 per hour crowd is they complain they can’t affordrent and other expenses. Maybe the $15 crowd should quit smoking and buying smart phones. A pack of cigarettes costs as much as they make in an hour.
I think this idea is Horrible! Just because something becomes more difficult, does Not mean you throw in the towel and just forget what McDonald’s is all about! This quote was taken from the McDonald’s website from the Founder Ray Kroc….. “Our founding father Ray Kroc once said, “McDonald’s is a people business”. We operate with the belief that it’s essential to be a part of the communities that we serve.” So, let me ask you then…….How will McDonald’s be a people business and be an essential part of Any community if they are run by Robots?!
Sounds like some of you need to get some french cries and dry your eye with a Mcnapkin.
In response to this development by McDonald’s I will no longer be patronizing any of their restaurants and I will be strongly encouraging all my family, friends and acquaintances to boycott as well. To think it appropriate to disrespect flesh and blood workers and hope to sell their products to the same is insanity. Goodbye McDonald’s!
I agree!! I will no longer eat at McDonalds!! They are taking jobs away from people who need jobs!!
I concur, I will not give them any more of my time and money because of this.
I totally agree
Hey that’s a great idea! That way when their revenue takes a hit, they’ll fire more and more people. Maybe they will even close down the store if enough people boycott it so that even the last few humans left working there lose their job. Great plan idiot!
The net effect of raising the minimum wage @ Mickey D’s is it is expediting better service @ less cost by automating there service , the net down side to raising the minimum wage is the jobs that can not be automated but the supply of labor & need is such that they could provide a certain number of jobs @ a lower rate than the minimum wage , is that total number of jobs will not be filled because of government regulation, hence increasing unemployment by government statute !
McDonald’s food sucks anyways lol..fake burgers and over salted fries. Not to mention fake chicken they need to do something to get people eating there again i will go just once to see it work but definitely not eating that crap
We live in a capitalist country, not a socialist one. Businesses have zero responsibility to provide for jobs, all they care about and rightfully so is their bottom line. This is the land of opportunity for a reason people, get off your asses and make something for yourself instead of expecting big business or the government to provide for you, it ain’t gonna happen.
I find this amusing. Robots making burgers… what a riot!!!
Oh look my comment was completely changed by the moderator of the article. So I guess you can erase this one too. This is fake sheeple.
I do not agree with this at all!! This is taking jobs away from people who need to work!! If people are not working, they are not making money and therefor they are not spending money!! DUH!! If we replace people with robots, soon your business will crumble because no one has a job anymore and therefor no one is spending money at your establishment!! Then what?? People need to work and make money so you can make money!!
I know this all sounds good for McDonalds, but soon we all may be replaced by robots.
Think about it.
Can a robot be built to take the job or career you have?
Look further down the road.
This is like a baby learning to crawl.
What will happen to the world, to us, when that baby can run?
There is NO WAY that McDonald’s would survive being run completely by robots; there are certain things that can only be handled by humans, and even with the presence of the touchscreens where customers can order their food without going to the counter (which I firmly believe is the fast-food industry’s response to the whiners who insist they be paid $15 an hour for a job that is meant for teens who are still living at home), there still needs to be some sort of human contact at the other end.
I would never give business to a restaurant run by robots… never. Just gives me another reason to never give that company any of my time or money.
With you, 100%. Let their robots collect dust. Unless and until these corporations throw in to support a UGI–well, to twist a quote of one of their great icons: “Let Them Eat (their own) Burgers!”
Father Guido Sarducci (Don Novello) did a stand-up routine about the only thing you’ll remember from economics courses is “Supply and demand.”
Yep. You can demand $15 an hour wage but if you’re not worth that, a cheaper substitute will take your job away.
You can throw a tantrum but it won’t get you your job back at a price higher than you’re worth. That’s because “supply and demand” is a natural law, like gravity.
I’m 35 and just found out that my dream job at the bank is going to be replaced by a robot called an automated teller machine. Now there are no jobs left but for me to continue doing laundry and cleaning windows for my mom’s weakly allowance.
McDonald’s are a bunch of asshats!!!
The Republicans commenting on here are fucking morons, and I don’t understand how they don’t see it, but let me try and break it down for them so they understand…
EVERY JOB in the world has people that are lazy and feel entitled etc etc etc
MOST people that work at McDonald’s are young kids going to school or who couldn’t get into school and McDonald’s is pretty much the best they can do. The other 10% can do better, but don’t, because they are lazy.
NOW… compare that to any other job out there… a hedge fund company on Wall Street, hell, a job I worked at years ago…
I was running a mortgage company making about $30,000 a month. I would show up to work, extremely hung over, around 10 or 11am. Take a long lunch, leave by 3 or 4 pm, and then go drink my face off, party in the VIP rooms, bang hookers and do cocaine till 6am on a fucking Tuesday. That’s about as lazy as it gets. But in our society who gets props and respect? The mortgage broker making $30k a month. And it’s only because I have a higher IQ and I’m intelligent. I didn’t go to school or take any special training. If I didn’t have this higher IQ or intelligence, and couldn’t afford school or special training, then guess where I’m probably going to end up working? McDonald’s… or slinging crack rock and then in prison.
So, you dumb fucking Republicans, wake the fuck up and stop being so goddamn ignorant. Get out of your echo chamber of Fox News, hate and religious fanaticalism, because it’s getting really goddamn boring hearing the same dumb shit all the fucking time.
First, Look in the mirror for hate and intolerance.
Second, Don’t blame anyone or anything else for dumbing-down America. Stay at home and watch MSM (Main Stream Media) for a day or two and you will get your fill (or Dr. Phil) of mind numbing Kardasian news, fashion tips (of which most cannot afford), lifestyles (the only cruise or adventure were US Navy submarines), and feeling sorry for those less fortunate (immigrant leaches). Fox and religion are positive (Fox news can be tedious and repetitive though).
Thirdly, My wife worked in the mortgage business and I know its abusers. You sold worthless paper, defrauded millions $$$ (and took a commission – $30K/mo), and lied to people to sell crap.
I HAD TO PAY FOR FOR YOUR SCAMMING THE SYSTEM.
Democrats prefer their voters DUMB or felonious. For having such an high IQ, you fit both categories. FannieMay and FreddieMac were run by the DNC to funnel money into their pockets. There are more Democratic millionaires and billionaires than Repubs. Wall Street was bribed $1.2T/yr for six years to keep the economy running (the 1%ers are even richer than before). We now have fewer jobs, more workers and more regulations preventing business growth.
Read (and understand) Atlas Shrugged. If you are as smart as you say you are, you may see the similarities. If you cannot read or understand Ayn Rand, just check into prison and become someones b*tch.
How did robots revolutionize the automotive industry? Cheaper cars with fewer defects.
How will McRobots revolutionize the food industry? Cheaper and safer food (w/o added hair or spit).
JAlex…. don’t worry…. he won’t understand or believe anything you or I can try to tell him.
As a side-note, I’m wearing my “Atlas Shrugged… Now, Non-Fiction” t-shirt as I type…
Paul, you are a perfect example of why the Democrats have put the U.S. twelve trillion in the red. All you think about is $$$$$ and that we owe people like you. Well, you dummy, (not going to use your intelligent language) here are the facts. McDonalds is a job for the young to learn about how to work. It is not a career type job. Although people like you can’t make it past these start up jobs. Maybe you should go to work for Obama, since he didn’t have a real job before the Democrats put him in a job that is well over his head. I hope and pray we are able to overcome the mess stupid people like you put us in.
I don’t think I’ve eaten at McDonald’s in a few years. Honestly don’t know how they stay in business. Oh yeah, stupid people, as all business depends upon.
Except, someone has to repair those robots when they don’t work; therefore, McDonalds is actually creating jobs. These jobs are more technical and require more skill than a McChef. Demand a good paying job? Get with the times, get educated, and reenter the market with marketable skills. Lazy people would rather picket their wages than work to increase them.
Good evening, sir. My name is Steve. I come from a rough area. I used to be addicted to crack, but now I’m off and trying to stay clean. Peter: Ok. Steve: That is why I’m selling magazine subscriptions.
So now I guess it’s not profitable ENOUGH to poison us with the crap they serve (although they don’t serve that crap to me) they can’t fathom putting out a quality product because quality ingredients cost more, so as people are getting the idea of the crap, their profits are plunging (But not far enough) and so they offset it by automating the entire process. Way to go McD’s! You’re this week’s poster child of greed. No where near Ray Kroc’s vision of getting kids going in life with their first job, now it’s all about nothing but money. Imagine what QUALITY might do to profits. There’s examples everywhere of quality equating to huge profits with PEOPLE producing the product! In and Out is a great example. But no, why be “good” when you can rape and pilage your people, your planet, and pretty much anything you come into contact with .
McDonald’s needs to only hire humans
The fries will taste no better than before and may even come with a metallic taste.
Go McDonalds! I’m tired of dealing with surly, incompetent prejudice morons that make too much money as it is let alone $15.00/hr. I’m going to buy some McDonalds stock now!
Glad I know how to write code.
I only have a question, will these robots be bilingual? Or speak different languages?
With the way they describe the employees, lazy, poor hygiene, etc I will not support any McDonald’s after reading this article. Not only are they taking away employment but just because you come up with a new toy you talk bad about the employees which you have underpaid for years. Have you ever thought about maybe if you paid a fair wage and was more careful of who you hired you could have minimized some of those problems. I would personally take this article down because when people start to wake up not only won’t you have to worry about employees like that working for you but there will not be a McDonald’s because ya’ll will be out of business. I will not ever support a place that take jobs away from people then talk negative about them once they don’t have use for them anymore. Says alot about the company and it character. Then you wonder why you sales declining.
July 6th. It’s still is under construction. No progress made in weeks. Pending lawsuit? Robotic McDonalds would be great for the economy and the united states in general. More agricultural jobs, cheaper food, better quality. And many more positives, less negatives.
This McDonald’s just opened and I went and visited it.. the robots are so futuristic, they almost look like real humans
I like this statement by a McDonalds PR person
“With the high demand for a wage of $15/hr and the protests getting worse every day, this is something we had to implement. Plus with the tremendous margin of human error, poor hygiene, lack of education, laziness, as well as the recent advancements in artificial intelligence it just make sense to automate our restaurants now rather than later.”
Another place to add to my list of companies I don’t give me money too. Not to mention they are selling swill, plain and simple.
Technology is great until it starts taking jobs from hard working people, and so what if they smoke. Why don’t you robot dicks just outsource your shitty fast food to india, that’s right, they don’t eat cows bitches.
well I wont be eating there any more, I never really did any ways but now deff wont now , its just the beginning of things to come, if it does work, then alot of other company’s will follow suit , I think Congress should be replaced with robots , at least you dont need to pay a Trillion Dollars a year for their pay checks ,, What a sham what this world is coming too…
Quote: “I said no, no robots at McDonald’s. I could set the building on fire.”
Can’t quite put my finger on it… employees like this just might have something to do with it.
The way I see it its great jobs for the skilled to keep everything working. Like me who is a trained electronics expert. I rarely get $15 a hr on most jobs and these burger flippers think they deserve it no way.
Im confused as to why any unskilled workers would strike when they can easily be replaced. Its not very smart they must all be stupid.
Im also confused as to why anyone would try to raise the min wage knowing that this will happen. You have to be really dumb to want to raise the min wage.
This article clearly shows the folly of the “living wage” movement because the entry level employees who need training in working hard, coming to work on-time, and in the basicsof employment, won’t be able to find positions which pay the living wage because their skills do not match their cost to the employer, and the product pricing will not support higher prices because of competitive factors.
Where will young, inexperienced, and marginal employees find employment in a situation where they do not produce value commensurate with the “living wage?” These jobs will be taken-over by robots.
They will not find employment and they will form a permanent underclass of unemployables who will burden society with welfare costs, crime, and poverty.
Is this what we want for our young people? They are already earning their costs because there is no shortage of applicants who live at with their parents at home who need jobs far more than they need an inflated wage.
If McDonald’s displaces the labor in 25,000 stores, competition will do likewise, and we can expect anti-robot violence and modern-day Luddites who will protest the disappearance of entry-level jobs.
Stopped into this McDonald’s yesterday so I could see how it worked. All robots! So amazing! One of them was kind of hot too