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The Burgerrrrrr I mean [Bad Food] Thread
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unless they eliminate counter services 100% they're already at the minimum amount of people needed.
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Minimum wage places rarely straight up fire people because of these things.
But tech items like this are a net good because the skill level to maintain them requires a higher set of workers. So sure, hypothetically you lose a cashier or two, but you gain maintenance staff and some engineers.
maybe
not much anyone can do about it one way or the other I guess
Not at a frickin Little Caesar’s.
When the machine breaks they probably just call in a contractor to look at the equipment as needed.
We will eventually lose practically all of our unskilled labor jobs, yes, I know. But the alternative is to stymie progress and technology because some low skilled workers can't make rent or get food.
There are better solutions to this puzzle (UBI) even if they're political unfeasible right this second.
that would be a great solution, yes. It needs to be in place before though for it to work
also, the bolded is true, what they do is scale hours back.
Large scale corps like caesars do have their own on staff maintenance and engineer people, the economies of scale make it much cheaper.
Mom and Pop shops that implement something like this in their own restaurant likely use contracted services. There is, ultimately, a tipping point in contracting services in a small business. IT in particular is one you can readily see this. Once you've got 15+ staff members it becomes cheaper to have a single on site IT person than paying for contracted IT by a large margin.
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Yes, and lives have been cast aside in the name of profits since then, and it's not ok and capitalism is unethical and needs to be dismantled
Workers need to be allowed to, and encouraged to join labor unions to protect themselves in the interim
And your solution to the problem is what?
Stop progress to protect jobs? Have people dig ditches and then another set fill them in so they're doing something?
Not in my experience. Burger king, at least the local franchise I worked for, definitely had an on staff engineer to fix their equipment. And if it's custom built equipment and not COTS equipment that you can just buy from toshiba? That's internal. AFAIK the pizza portal wasn't contracted out to another firm to design and build.
could probably do with another big public works infrastructure initiative
get those deathtrap bridges fixed up, y'know
I'm game for that.
I agree
automation isn't preventing this
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Depends on the business arrangement. In a franchised setup the franchisees can opt for self servicing though are still taking the store infrastructure from the brand's mandate. Even in those cases though, large scale infrastructure updates (or things like new store installs) will tend to get flexed out to the OEM and their own network as the franchisees are not usually carrying enough labor flexibility to, say, replace all of the Front of House systems in their district in a single week. Self servicers will also tend to be still ordering repair parts and such through corproate.
Company-owned setups (like a Walmart) are very different. Store systems are so numerous the training requirements and scale for internal management are beyond what they want to invest in (which doesn't even touch on the logistics requirements). They usually outsource the whole operation to their chosen OEMs, usually segmented by Front of House, Back of House, Security, etc. Specialty systems are usually serviced by their provider - coupon printer systems by Catalina Marketing, those new "everyone stands in the same line for registers" systems by Irisys etc.
Yes, something like a huge public works thing would be amazing
My Diabeetees just got Diabeetees.
if its seafood flatbread with tomato sauce and cheese is it then a melt?
It's a hot dog.
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Sorry, some people just like to watch the food world burn. (Or at least Well Done).
(Seems fishy.)
No, that's what you put a fish corn dog on.
That is all true and has nothing to do with Little Cesar’s installing automated warming ovens.
No job lasts for ever, and we shouldn’t pretend as if maintaining a job that is no longer necessary is a desirable, sustainable, or ethical solution to the problem of “menial labor is being replaced by automation”.
I pity the poor unfortunate soul that ordered that
STOP
IT
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Especially if they were a finicky eater. /deadpan
That's a dry-ass sandwich
Oh and also that like 90% of popular fish is inherently unsustainable and arguably an environmentally irresponsible food to consume
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
No, it's dead in a bun
What's the least popular fish that is also the least sustainable? Wanna meet that unlovable fish.