[Newsbot]

Title: McDonald's hires 7,000 touch-screen cashiers
Category: Business
Posted By: N_Fiddledog
Date: 2015-04-22 00:22:34

[martin14]

Andy better watch out, Timmies is next.

[ShepherdsDog]

[N_Fiddledog]

There are self-serve checkouts in my local drugstore that take cash.

These fast food employees who have been convinced they should get $15 bucks an hour should do a rethink. They're making it worth an employer's while to go robot.

And how difficult will it be to come up with a robot that flips hamburgers, I wonder.

[DrCaleb]

I guess they are a decade behind Japan. Every mom-and-pop Ramen and Sushi joint has a self serve machine out front where you order your meal first, then take the ticket inside.

Some even take transit tokens instead of money!

[raydan]

N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:

There are self-serve checkouts in my local drugstore that take cash.

These fast food employees who have been convinced they should get $15 bucks an hour should do a rethink. They're making it worth an employer's while to go robot.

And how difficult will it be to come up with a robot that flips hamburgers, I wonder.

They can make pizza, why not burgers?

[BartSimpson]

N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:

There are self-serve checkouts in my local drugstore that take cash.

These fast food employees who have been convinced they should get $15 bucks an hour should do a rethink. They're making it worth an employer's while to go robot.

And how difficult will it be to come up with a robot that flips hamburgers, I wonder.

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