More "Fight For $15" Job Losses On The Way

From Fox News online today:

Jack in the Box CEO: Swapping cashiers for robots 'makes sense' due to minimum wage increase

The CEO of fast-food restaurant Jack in the Box said “it just makes sense” to replace cashiers with robots due to the minimum wage increase in California.

"As we see the rising costs of labor, it just makes sense" to swap cashiers with kiosks where customers can order their food themselves, CEO Leonard Comma said Tuesday at the ICR Conference in Orlando, Fla., Business Insider reported.

However, Comma said that while his fast-food restaurant has tested products with technological advances at their establishments, he has decided to not go forward with the kiosks.

California, where Jack in the Box is based, will raise its minimum wage to $11 in 2018 and again in 2023 to $15. California and 18 other states have proposed to raise their respective minimum wages, Grub Street reported.

Jack in the Box was not the only fast-food joint to consider using robots in replacement for cashiers. Wendy’s said it would be installing the kiosks in the next year and McDonald’s also announced they were planning to install the kiosks to 2,500 restaurants. However, McDonald’s vowed they would not be swapping cashiers for the self-automated machines.

Smaller fast-food chains such as CaliBurger and Eatsa have already started making the entire restaurant automated, Business Insider reported.

As a way to cut costs before the minimum wage increase, Red Robin announced Tuesday they would be cutting bus boys from 570 restaurants in order to save the company money.

The Victim Card

Fact: Having been a victim at one point in your past does not make you a victim in perpetuity. It doesn't make you immune from being called out on your hypocrisy for your actions (or inaction) now.

If members or your race, gender, or ethnicity are now or have ever been legitimately victimized, but you personally have not, you cannot play the victim card by extension.

Jobless Future: Shake Shack’s Humans Out, Robots In

This is the future the Left is bringing with ridiculous "living wage" laws:

Jobless Future: Shake Shack’s Humans Out, Robots In

Tim Pearce - Energy Reporter

Via The Daily Caller 9:27 PM 10/04/2017

A new Shake Shack opening up in New York City’s East Village is trading human cashiers in for robots in order to pay the rest of the shop’s employees a $15 an hour wage.

The newest building is an experiment that Shake Shack management hope will direct the future of the company. They want to attract a more skilled and committed workforce by automating some jobs and paying higher wages to the rest, the New York Post reports.

Millennial Wars Episode IV - A New Hope

I get really depressed at the reality that our future is in the hands of Millennials. I mean, come on, they're fucking idiots.

But every once in a while there is a glimmer of hope. Hope that there are a few of them who actually "get it" and aren't the lock-step mindless morons who willingly enslave themselves to Liberal PC culture.

I saw this video and young women like this keep that hope alive in me.

Fast Food Employees Closer To Extinction (Fight For $15)

Remember the good old days when a job at a fast food restaurant was an entry to the working world, not a final destination?

Remember when the fast food joints were staffed by eager fresh faced high school kids earning their first paychecks and gaining valuable work experience? OK, so maybe they weren't all that eager to be there, but they knew it was just "paying your dues" before moving onward and upward to a real career.

Today's reality is that your average fast food employee is more likely to be older, foreign born, uneducated, unmotivated, and harboring a great deal of resentment at having to work for a living in the land of plenty.

This sense of entitlement and lack of ambition has led to the "workers of the world, unite!" socialist attitude that spawned the "fight for $15" movement for a so called living wage for minimum wage employees.


The marketplace, as it always does however, is adapting to the rising labor costs and lowering labor quality by moving steadily toward automation.

For example I saw this today: Hamburger-making robot company raises $18 million

From the article: "Founded in 2009, Momentum Machines is developing food-preparing robots, the first one of which supposedly can prep hundreds of made-to-order hamburgers in an hour ― from raw ingredients to packaging. In other words, it might be the future of fast-food prep work."

The next time you're at Burger King and the person taking your order can barely speak English, and you get your Whopper looking like some gorilla was playing soccer with it, just remember things will change soon.

"Mahk" Destroys Millenials

This is one of the funniest videos I've seen in quite a while.

If you're not familiar with this YouTube video series, this guy plays a based Boston working class guy named Mark, or pronounced in the Boston accent - Mahk. Mahk is inserted into commercials, mainly from Chevy, and he plays a real life participant who tells it like it is.

This episode had me rolling. Mahk destroys Millenials and Hipster culture.

Subscribe to this guy's YouTube channel: Zebra Corner  Updates are infrequent because of the production values involved in the videos, but it's worth the wait.