i heard theres some stonks we can buy

This topic is such a shame. People living off Stimulus. Worst of it all they happy to make a few bucks investing it in crypto/stocks when a normal job would beat all that $ by a landslide. Youth nowadays = Disgrace.

This post was edited by SunnyvaleTrailerPark on Feb 6 2021 09:16am

The majority of people on this forum are not youth, think you’re confused buddy. The basis of “youth” is also what the previous generation bestowed, life is taught and learned, AKA if there’s a problem with a current generation it’s because of ties to the previous one

So wait a minute, most people here are grown men living off stimulus. Wtf?

Yes that’s indeed true, I’m not sure that you would classify what most of these people are doing as living but to each their own I suppose

This post was edited by MakeD2GreatAgain on Feb 6 2021 09:21am

Interesting, but I'm not convinced it's actually going to save that much as far as jobs go. You're still going to need staff to clean it and maintain it, and prep things to go in it, and everything. It basically removes the guy on the grill, but the guy on the grill is usually doing more than just grilling (well, he's probably only grilling during peak hours, but most of the time on a shift isn't peak hours).

There's a reason why countries with an equivalent of $20 minimum wage haven't implemented these things yet after all.

I cleaner. But all of the input automation is even more simple. Basically 1 cleaner who loads up the prep stations. 1 man show. This shit really is coming fast. Pass a 15$ min wage and you'll see.

Depends entirely on the "restaurant". Many fast food companies, the majority of it is pre-prepped anyhow. McDonalds isn't having every head of lettuce shipped in and individually washed and shredded. Every tomato slice isn't exactly the same width due to the extremely skilled knifework of the average 16 year old. All the ingredients are shipped prepped, cleaned, and sealed by the manufacturer. Cleaning as well between each preparation of a meal can easily be automated, etc.

Realistically speaking, rather than 3 people taking orders, 3 people preparing meals, 2 people cleaning and dealing with stocking stuff up, and a manager on shift at any given time, you could boil it down to ordering kiosks, machines, 1 person to keep the preparation machines loaded and clean tables/bathrooms and shit, and 1 person who is the "manager" and doubles as the machine maintenance tech, and deals with order handling.

It's even better with the takeout/drivethrough nature of lockdowns. We're not far away at all from no internal access to the business becoming the norm. Just pick your drive up machine to prep your food or your walk-up machine, have 3 bolted in table/bench combos under cover, and provide no restroom at all. Mucho savings!

I mean, that's always been the argument. "pass it and you'll see", but most of the world has already passed that and they haven't seen, and that's just one thing. You're also still going to need people at the windows taking payments, still going to need the lobbies cleaned, inventory, that maintenance and prep guy, etc. etc. You aren't going to get rid of the grill completely because when that machine breaks they aren't going to shut down the entire restaurant for 2-3 days until a new one is shipped to them or a repair guy comes out. You're just not going to automate away most of the jobs in a restaurant.

Like, yeah, automation is definitely coming, but a restaurant will always have a minimum number of people. I don't think that automation is coming for nearly as many minimum wage jobs as it is for the very expensive and technically difficult jobs.

This post was edited by Thor123422 on Feb 6 2021 01:12pm

If I can get 10 prep machine for $30K that're going to last me 10 years and pay 2 shifts of 2 people $30K/year each or I can pay 2 shifts of 10 people each $30K/year each, I'm going for the machines and laugh in your face when the machines have paid themselves off the first year.

The math isn't hard here, Thor. $15/hour * 40 hours/week is greater than $30K/year. It's not "1 machine" that you'd be dealing with. We have a McDonalds right across the street that is pretty damned huge and high traffic. Internally, there were no longer any "cashiers" as of 3 years ago. It was ordering kiosks. They didn't "repurpose" those jobs. They fired those employees. It turned out the that 5 $10K multi-lingual kiosks provided a better service to the customer than 2 shifts of 5 cashiers each at $24K/year. Legitimately, the ratings for the McDonalds went up, which is odd, given the terrible nature of the food.