Don’t worry, your kids won’t care. They might even think you’re old fashioned.
I guess it’s that time again. We’ve got a (D) as President, time for more The ROBOTS are taking all the jobs threads.
still need someone to cook the noodles, all that does is cut them its an expansive knife.
It’s one of them trendy places. They have live music, and food trucks out front. We also have a pour your own wine place that is pretty popular as well.
I love one of the reviews for that tap room though.
Warning : SCAN your Drivers License. Not Cool. This is setting us up for COMMUNISM
It’s not a bad thing necessarily for the US businesses to invest in technology. Rather create 20 good paying engineering and technician jobs than import 100 low skilled uneducated immigrants.

It’s fascinating watching people argue against higher pay for workers.
That’s not what I’m doing. Do you believe that every business can pay what Microsoft pays a software engineer? If not, why?

PurpnGold:
However if we have a labor shortage… then we need more people. Otherwise wages will naturally rise and give big business more incentive to automate
The service industry is actually much harder to automate than people act like. You can automate cashiers but there’s no point at which a robot is more cost effective than a pimply seventeen year old even if you have to pay them three more bucks an hour.
And servers and bartenders will never be replaced. Or line cooks.
Some jobs yes, some no. As I noted earlier there’s little reason one needs a human to take a person’s order and futuristicly I could see robots bringing the food to people’s tables. How hard would it be to program a robot the layout of a restaurant and to stop at a specific table?

zantax:
Can’t automate overnight, but that’s an example of why they will.
In the economic reality there’s a limit of what a restaurant, especially fast food, can pay their staff. Does a restaurant really need someone to take a person’s order? How much time does that take? Put the appropriate technology at every table and cut your wait staff in half if not more.
Look up flippy. Nice robot, cooks burgers.

As I noted earlier there’s little reason one needs a human to take a person’s order…
And that’s where you’re wrong.
It’s not like it hasn’t been tried. It doesn’t work.
It’s not what people want.

Eagle-Keeper:
As I noted earlier there’s little reason one needs a human to take a person’s order…
And that’s where you’re wrong.
It’s not like it hasn’t been tried. It doesn’t work.
It’s not what people want.
Yeah, online ordering doesn’t work, tell door dash.

The more labor costs, the faster it happens.
BS.
When profit is king…reducing costs is the constant goal.

Yeah, online ordering doesn’t work, tell door dash.
Well, it sorta works. I order a lot of takeout, they ■■■■ it up a lot of the time.
But that’s not the point. Delivery isn’t the same as dining out.

TheDoctorIsIn:
Eagle-Keeper:
As I noted earlier there’s little reason one needs a human to take a person’s order…
And that’s where you’re wrong.
It’s not like it hasn’t been tried. It doesn’t work.
It’s not what people want.
Yeah, online ordering doesn’t work, tell door dash.
someone still has to make the food, and deliver it.
if anything you create a new job by being lazy and not driving to pick it up.

Eagle-Keeper:
As I noted earlier there’s little reason one needs a human to take a person’s order…
And that’s where you’re wrong.
It’s not like it hasn’t been tried. It doesn’t work.
It’s not what people want.
If a restaurants decides it’s more cost effective to put technology at every table then people won’t have a choice. They’ll get used to it.

zantax:
The more labor costs, the faster it happens.
BS.
When profit is king…reducing costs is the constant goal.
No contradiction there. So how is it BS? Profit is king, that’s the purpose of business.

There’s a money problem.
There is a greed problem.

If a restaurants decides it’s more cost effective to put technology at every table then people won’t have a choice. They’ll get used to it.
Of course they’ll have a choice.
They can go to the restaurant down the street.

No contradiction there. So how is it BS? Profit is king, that’s the purpose of business.
Well, that is the problem.
Need to put other factors on that balance sheet, besides cash.

Eagle-Keeper:
If a restaurants decides it’s more cost effective to put technology at every table then people won’t have a choice. They’ll get used to it.
Of course they’ll have a choice.
They can go to the restaurant down the street.
Dining is one of the few things people enjoy the concept of being waited on by staff.
its part of the appeal.