re: Have you been inside a newly remodeled McDonald's Recently? It's so bizarre

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The person that frequents the fast food establishments aren’t exactly on a much higher social status scale than the person that works there. This realization makes some people lash out.

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Doesn’t Warren Buffett eat a Sausage Egg and Cheese McMuffin every day?

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This is the ramifications of minimum wage increases

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Automation was going to happen no matter what. The only difference is McDonald's now has an excuse.

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Doesn’t Warren Buffett eat a Sausage Egg and Cheese McMuffin every day?

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Only if the Dow was up the previous day.

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McD’s opened a fully automated restaurant end of last year. They’re preparing for massive layoffs to automate everything possible. This is the ramifications of minimum wage increases

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The bad part of this will be as this happens more and more it will dump a shite ton of unskilled labor that will find it difficult to find work. So you’ll end up with more welfare recipients and higher crime.

Same thing happened in the Ms Delta when farming mechanized to the point you can farm 1000s of acres with a handful of people, on top of the textile mills and cotton gins shutting down. All the black workers who had steady employment lost good jobs and now sit around on welfare, and it’s destroyed these communities.

And to top it all off, we are allowing millions more unskilled workers to flood across the border. It’s a recipe for economic disaster when the nation is already in a debt crisis. We cannot afford more dependents and less tax payers

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minimize face to face human interaction as much as possible.

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Or to help out when understaffed.

It's like they don't want you to see when the minimum wage workers are spitting in your food.

FIFY

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Should be rephrased to “now they have the motivation to expedite it”

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These wheels have been in motion for a long time. They started putting kiosks in McDs in 2015, but they started testing them out 20 years ago. Personally, I don't give a shite about whether it's automated or not. I have small kids and we grab happy meals occasionally while on the road. I'll use the app b/c it saves a few bucks and I don't have to worry about some min wage worker hearing me correctly over a shitty drive thru comm. Maybe this motivated McDs to speed up the process, but I think it's more likely that it opened the door for them.

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It’s crazy how the moderately poor are so threatened by the very poor getting a pay raise.

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Theyre not. They just understand that unskilled, uneducated workers have no future because of automation.

If you actually cared for these folks, you would encourage them to do better.

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Anyone remember smoking inside McDonald’s?

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I remember it in a lot of fast food restaurants