Jack In The Box CEO: We May Replace Workers With Robots Because Of $15 Minimum Wage Campaign

[Teh One Who Knocks]

What does this even mean?

All you keep going on about is ROI blah blah blah blah...do you think that these robots are going to become faster, more efficient, and CHEAPER as they keep being developed? If people kept your way of thinking, cars would still be assembled by hand now.

[Muddy]

What do you care about these dumbasses that are going to be replaced? *ridiculousness insult removed*

As I've stated in the past. Any moneys the employer doesn't pay their employees are moneys that the government will pay out to these individuals in tax cuts, welfares, and subsidies.

If you want to have 25 employees, then pay for 25 employees.. Don't make me do it with my taxes. If you cant afford to pay your employees then you should maybe rethink your business plan. They are called government subsidies. The government is subsidizing the lack of compensation these places are shirking their employees out of.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

As I've stated in the past. Any moneys the employer doesn't pay their employees are moneys that the government will pay out to these individuals in tax cuts, welfares, and subsidies.

*source needed

[Muddy]

If people kept your way of thinking, cars would still be assembled by hand now.

Maybe this is why pickup trucks are 40-50 thousand dollars now!!!

[PorkChopSandwiches]

We sell that fuckin stupid robot Lance just posted.. (well not the burger flipper, thats just a base model outfitted to do that specific task) Theres a TON of ROI to recoup on something like this and the technology is not infallible. And did you know that these robotics aren't set it and forget it? They have service that occurs on a rather frequent basis.. Who do you think does that service?.. Not that cheapo $15 an hour guy.. Then guess what? a specific life span!! Aaannd time to open your fat little wallet again and go through another upgrade/ change out. The guys doing all this make a helluva lot more than $15.00 an hour too..

Yeah, but that's the same as robots in an auto factory. CLearly it works and is cost saving even with the repairs and upgrades, otherwise they wouldn't do it. Just like in the other thread they are dropping waitresses and replacing them with 1 or 2 servers and having you order at the table on an ipad and 2 people handle what used to be 6-8. So you just lost 4-6 jobs to give 2 people $15 an hour.

[Muddy]

*source needed

You know damn well if a persons income is low they qualify for financial assistance.. Whether that be reduced taxes, food stamps, ebt cards, and medicare...

Who pays for that?

[Muddy]

Yeah, but that's the same as robots in an auto factory. CLearly it works and is cost saving even with the repairs and upgrades, otherwise they wouldn't do it. Just like in the other thread they are dropping waitresses and replacing them with 1 or 2 servers and having you order at the table on an ipad and 2 people handle what used to be 6-8. So you just lost 4-6 jobs to give 2 people $15 an hour.

You tell me when you put taps on your walls and fire your wait staff big fella..

[PorkChopSandwiches]

You tell me when you put taps on your walls and fire your wait staff big fella..

Ill tell you right now, we wouldn't be in business through last year if we had to pay $15 at the brewery for some girl to pull a beer out of a tap.

[Muddy]

Ill tell you right now, we wouldn't be in business through last year if we had to pay $15 at the brewery for some girl to pull a beer out of a tap.

An extra $50 a day would put you out of business?

[Muddy]

For real guys.. Every ones prices are rising.. Except the bottom, their pay is not rising... Everything you pay out has doubled.. Someones collecting this money... They are not trickling any of it back down.. Even the last 10 years cost of living has doubled.. Everything is rising except the pay.. It is not right...

[PorkChopSandwiches]

When an employee gets paid, the hourly isn't the only cost to a business. There is unemployment, taxes and things that increase as wages increase. My point is the margins are thin as it is, I mean I can increase the cost of a pint from $5-6 to $7-8 but I would imagine I would lose business

[Muddy]

When an employee gets paid, the hourly isn't the only cost to a business. There is unemployment, taxes and things that increase as wages increase. My point is the margins are thin as it is, I mean I can increase the cost of a pint from $5-6 to $7-8 but I would imagine I would lose business

I get it in your case, on your scale, at your startup level.. But these fuckin mega corps that raise their prices yearly and are not in a business deficit I don't get it.

[deebakes]

where's my beer porky?

[PorkChopSandwiches]

At the brewery, when you stopping by?

[Hal-9000]

I get it in your case, on your scale, at your startup level.. But these fuckin mega corps that raise their prices yearly and are not in a business deficit I don't get it.

Yes the price of established goods and services never go down. As soon as automation becomes cost effective, I believe we'll see a lot of industries attempt some forms of piece-meal replacement.

Those ol robots at the GM plant that put in a door screw are too attractive not to have other industries start eliminating human roles where they can. I think the fast food world is just the start of a larger change over.