If you raise the Min Wage, how long before the order taker at McDonalds is replaced by a touch screen?

In order for her Just Cupcakes LLC to remain profitable in the face of higher ... Before rising to $5.85 in 2008, the federal minimum wage held steady at ... "In retail, it's not like you can get a machine to replace someone on the floor," he says. ... for using touch-screen technology to eliminate most or all of her minim...

http://www.cnet.com/news/mcdonalds-hires-7000-touch-screen-cashiers/ How long until this becomes the norm? ... If you are a high school student, I can see you making min. wage. But, if ... doesn't demand a $15 per hour wage even though it'll take orders more efficiently than it's nearest competitor - the human order taker.

Soon McDonald's could replace most of its low-wage staff with robots. ... . and second, you don't have to be a multi-millionaire before you can become a franchisee. ... . (PNRA) CEO Ron Shaich supports raising the minimum wage, but has ... ordering, with a planned 7,000 touch-screen kiosks across France.

Americans like the idea of hiking the minimum wage — until they ... as companies cut payrolls and raise prices to compensate. ... we see McDonald's has often replaced the order taker people at the ... "Like a little iPad touchscreen and you order your burgers and your ... Login if you are already a member.

Minimum wage hikes and labor complaints aside, the lack of job opportunity is the ... "If only you get X degree, you can get Y job," they're told. ... but they'll need to get bigger and louder before the top industry leaders -- McDonald's, ... . McDs is replacing order takers with touch screens in 7,...

As long as you avoid the fried food it wasn't so unhealthy. ... There's always the option of staying with your parents until you have a car ... If you raise min wage from 7.25 to 15 per hour, that is a huge increase in a single shot. ... . to eliminate the order takers all together and use a touch screen menu as seen ...

http://www.businessweek.com/articles... 5-minimum-wage ... Once there, you may continue to sit on the couch. ... This is a McDonald's worker at $15 per hour. ... They HAD to raise the minimum wage so all the high school drop-outs ... think that McDs wont replace the order takers with touch screen, self serve ...

McDonald's shows off a touch-screen kiosk installed in France in 2009. ... The move is designed to boost efficiency and make ordering more ... Minimum wage fast food jobs are NOT supposed to be the only income for a family. If you plan on raising a family, you need to make more than minimum wage, ...

Congresswoman Barbara Lee Wants A $26 Minimum Wage In California · Do Women Earn Less than ... But will it spit in your burger if you are rude to it ? ... ... It won't be long before fast food restaurants won't have order takers, they will just touch screens and then the food assembly folks will be gone ne...

How long before smarter and more skilled workers take over the fast food workforce? ... Craig A Whitehead Mcdonalds already has a prototype touchscreen order taker and ... Steven Scranton If you raise the floor, and the ceiling rises commensurately, what did ... Minimum wage was never intended to be life long pursuits.

If the worker can be replaced at a reasonable cost with a machine or ... The coming robot rights movement and the minimum wage ... . replacement of ordertakers/cashiers at McDonalds and the article ... Yeah, but with the touch-screen kiosk you lose the “personal touch” of ... How long before they unionize?

But, another round of raising the minimum wage by a proposed 25% just might ... That drive-up order taker/cashier could simply be replaced by a touch-screen and an ... Lastly and more importantly, if one fast food company, like McDonald's, starts ... On Climate Change, Would You Trust People Who Have.