BREAKING : Wendy’s Response to $15 Minimum Wage? Rollout 1,000 Robots!
Liberals who believe that a person flipping burgers deserves $15 an hour have a very rude awakening coming their way.
Fast food giant Wendy’s has a response to their $15 minimum wage idea.
ROBOTS.
One thousand robots.
From Zero Hedge
In yet another awkwardly rational response to government intervention in deciding what’s “fair”, the blowback from minimum wage demanding fast food workers has struck again. Wendy’s plans to install self-ordering kiosks in 1,000 of its stores – 16% of its locations nationwide.
“Last year was tough — 5 percent wage inflation,” said Bob Wright, Wendy’s chief operating officer, during his presentation to investors and analysts last week. He added that the company expects wages to rise 4 percent in 2017. “But the real question is what are we doing about it?”
Wright noted that over the past two years, Wendy’s has figured out how to eliminate 31 hours of labor per week from its restaurants and is now working to use technology, such as kiosks, to increase efficiency.
Wendy’s chief information officer, David Trimm, said the kiosks are intended to appeal to younger customers and reduce labor costs. Kiosks also allow customers of the fast food giant to circumvent long lines during peak dining hours while increasing kitchen production.
“There is a huge amount of pull from (franchisees) in order to get them,” David Trimm, Wendy’s chief information officer, said last week during the company’s investors’ day.
“With the demand we are seeing … we can absolutely see our way to having 1,000 or more restaurants live with kiosks by the end of the year.
A typical store would get three kiosks for about $15,000. Trimm estimated the payback on those machines would be less than two years, thanks to labor savings and increased sales. Customers still could order at the counter.
Kiosks are where the industry is headed, but Wendy’s is ahead of the curve, said Darren Tristano, vice president with Technomic, a food-service research and consulting firm.
“They are looking to improve their automation and their labor costs, and this is a good way to do it,” he said.
H/T – Red State Watcher
Amy Moreno is a Published Author, Pug Lover & Game of Thrones Nerd. You can reach her on Facebook here.
Let’s see how long it takes for the snowflakes that make a career out of fast food to vandalize these kiosks.
Wonder how long before the government figures out a way to tax a robot? All that payroll tax will be missed.
Whatever that tax might be it will be a lot less than paying some whiner $15/hr, right?
Good for them! Looks as if I’ll have to start patronizing Wendy’s. I wouldn’t mind the occasional oil drip, from a machine vs the spit from some POS loser when they see me proudly sporting my MAGA cap.