Posted by ss55 on April 25, 2014 at 07:07:07 from (50.81.112.224):
In Reply to: Automated fast food posted by Spook on April 24, 2014 at 19:43:20:
Where was that McDonnald's located?
The automation has been around since the late 1970's when PLC's (Programmable Linear Controller) were widely adapted. The hangup was that it takes skilled personel to maintain and repair the automation, i.e. skills equivalent to a copier repairman.
Most fast food restaraunts were too small to keep a full time technician busy at just one loacation, but they could not afford to be shut down for an hour waiting for an off-site technician to arrive.
Also the restaraunt managers and most franchise owners balked at paying market wages for experienced technicians, and they didn't have the back ground to hire and train new technicians.
It will be interesting to watch what happens. I suspect the fast food industry does not want to go automated no matter what wages are. The lowest price restaraunts will switch to more pre-packaged products. The higher priced restaraunts will not change.
A few well publicised machines could influence politicians and the public enough to get the industry an exemption to the new minimum wage laws.
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