Keep it going.
Just a little bit longer.
Almost ready.
McDonald’s orders 7,000 touchscreen kiosks to replace cashiers
McDonald’s recently added 64,000 people to its payroll in the United States, but job prospects in Europe for those so inclined to work in the fast food industry are looking pretty grim right about now. That’s because the fast food giant is poised to add touchscreen kiosks in more than 7,000 of its restaurants in Europe in effort to replace actual, human cashiers.
McDonald’s Europe President Easterbrook told the Financial Times (subscription required), via The Sydney Morning Herald, that the touchscreen kiosks should help speed up customer transactions up to three or four seconds. The European eateries currently serve about 2 million people per day; McDonald’s hopes it will get even more people to flock in through their doors.
How much did you want again?
Yup. Saw this one coming a mile away. This idiot push to raise ‘minimum wage’ instead of encouraging folks to advance and find better jobs is just going to kill most of the existing jobs instead.
An engineer friend of mine has stated that you could easily build a fast-food restaurant that could be run by one person (acting primarily as a caretaker/backup, just in case the robots run into a problem). Something tells me we’re about to see this first hand.
Imagine that – the companies are getting fed up with the bullshit!
Merle