As predicted: Fast Food Going With AI In CA

[Rightguide]

Published April 1, 2024 12:54pm EDT

Taco Bell, Pizza Hut going 'AI-first' with fast-food innovations​

Operator Yum! Brands says about 45% of sales are digital​

By Pilar Arias FOXBusiness

Yum! Brands, the operator of KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and The Habit Burger Grill restaurants, is embracing technology with plans for "AI-powered" fast food, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

The company has been increasing investment in technology and automation, with about 45%, or $30 billion, of sales being digital – nearly twice what it was in 2019 – Yum's chief digital and technology manager Joe Park told the newspaper. That is roughly double the level of 2019.

"Our vision of [quick-service restaurants] is that an AI-first mentality works every step of the way," Park told the Wall Street Journal. "If you think about the major journeys within a restaurant that can be AI-powered, we believe it’s endless."

With California's new minimum wage law taking effect Monday, meaning most fast-food workers will be paid $20 per hour, most restaurant operators are turning to AI to cut costs and increase sales, the Journal reported.

More here: https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/taco-bell-pizza-hut-going-ai-first-fast-food-innovations

This is how ignorant California Communists are when it comes to economics, They are going to deprive the very people they are attempting to help of their jobs with their command-order economic mindset.

 

[RoryN]

This is how ignorant California Communists are

So, you're saying AI innovation in fast food is going to be strictly a California thing.

Looks like you've started yet another thread with a failure for a premise. This will be fun to bump.

 

[DeluxAuto]

You're only a little late on this one. Which California commies voted for this?

 

[goldytheGoldfish]

I don't make the connection.
https://cookcountyrecord.com/storie...r-alleged-illegal-workplace-fingerprint-scans
https://www.classaction.org/news/wi...voiceprints-without-consent-class-action-says

 

[Philthy_Phil]

Cutting costs and increasing sales does sound like a very communist thing to do.

Do words still have meanings?

 

[goldytheGoldfish]

Still missing something. Hmm.

 

[goldytheGoldfish]

https://www.aclu-il.org/en/campaigns/biometric-information-privacy-act-bipa

 

[goldytheGoldfish]

They are going to deprive the very people they are attempting to help of their jobs with their command-order economic mindset.

https://www.nprillinois.org/illinoi...ois-strongest-in-nation-biometric-privacy-law

 

[vietato]

Fast food workers blindsided by sudden closure of Fosters Freeze in Lemoore, Ca.

Employees at Fosters Freeze in Lemoore are out of a job.
Assistant General Manager Monica Navarro says she was called Monday morning by her boss who was at the restaurant to open, only to find the locks were being changed.
Navarro said she thought it was an April Fools joke.
“I was so caught off guard. We had no type of notice, no type of warning either. I mean the owner had told me happy easter,” she said.
And she wasn’t the only one.
“We had gotten a text in the group chat that we were shutting down, and I completely thought it was an April Fools joke,” said former employee Jason Boado.
After learning it was real, she drove to the restaurant on Hanford Armona Rd, where the owner was handing out final paychecks.
Navarro says the owner, Loren Wright, had previously told her the $20 minimum wage increase for fast food workers was going to be really hard on him.
She said he did not tell her or any of the other workers that he was going to close.
“I walked in, and he had just immediately said you guys are out of a job; I’m sorry,” said Boado.

 

[goldytheGoldfish]

This is how ignorant California Communists are when it comes to economics

https://apnews.com/article/nebraska-man-arrested-after-attack-762cf044b1b85e2094ee9c206dae7d71
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...ing-death-penalty-roberto-silva-b2033336.html

 

[JoePepsiCo]

It was going to happen eventually, but it is nice to see government provide the incentive. The delicious irony here is that the workers shed are mostly voters of the people's party, who now have yet another reason to hate the average mom and pop business owner that won't hire them at any price.

A side benefit goes to those newly undocumented citizens who are willing to work under the table for cash for those evil employers not willing to surrender a fair share of their profits to the people's party who deems themselves the real owners of production because they (*chuckle*) supply "the workers..."

The real winners are the owners of the people's party in China who are supplying the cheap (and oppressed) human labor that builds the robots, drains us of capital and saddles us with more hands out for handouts who demand they be hired at "a living wage" (if they're even willing to work, preferring a dole) for useless introductory jobs designed for teenagers.

 

[DeluxAuto]

It was going to happen eventually, but it is nice to see government provide the incentive. The delicious irony here is that the workers shed are mostly voters of the people's party, who now have yet another reason to hate the average mom and pop business owner that won't hire them at any price.

A side benefit goes to those newly undocumented citizens who are willing to work under the table for cash for those evil employers not willing to surrender a fair share of their profits to the people's party who deems themselves the real owners of production because they (*chuckle*) supply "the workers..."

The real winners are the owners of the people's party in China who are supplying the cheap (and oppressed) human labor that builds the robots, drains us of capital and saddles us with more hands out for handouts who demand they be hired at "a living wage" (if they're even willing to work, preferring a dole) for useless introductory jobs designed for teenagers.

You really don't need to try and convince us that you have no idea of how the US economy works.

 

[Marielani]

Company here in Michigan that has robots that can make cheeseburgers all day long.
No breaks, no vacations. Perfect burger every time.
20 dollar an hour wage? I don’t think so.

 

[RoryN]

You really don't need to try and convince us that you have no idea of how the US economy works.

So true.

Exhibit A: https://forum.literotica.com/thread...pped-bragging-about-the-stock-market.1470002/

 

[Chernosoth]

Many California restaurants switched to a cafeteria model to eliminate waitstaff. They couldn't pay waiters enough to live there.

The future of fast food is smaller businesses with more self-employment and families being the whole staff. Food trucks are very common in California because they avoid California's insanely long and expensive permit gauntlet to building a new restaurant. But even the trucks may be squeezed out by California's restrictions on truck engines.

 

[Fuzzy1975]

Food trucks are very common in California because they avoid California's insanely long and expensive permit gauntlet to building a new restaurant. But even the trucks may be squeezed out by California's restrictions on truck engines.

Food trucks would be an excellent candidate to be full EV. They drive very little and site for long periods at a time. As to an engine, electric now goes to 49,000 HP. So finding a powerplant to move the truck isn't an issue...which kind of fucks up the point you were trying to make.

 

[TastySuckToy]

Company here in Michigan that has robots that can make cheeseburgers all day long.
No breaks, no vacations. Perfect burger every time.
20 dollar an hour wage? I don’t think so.

I'm very much looking forward to having my food all prepped by machines. I prefer zero or as few as possible people being near or touching my food.

 

[goldytheGoldfish]

 

[Sean Renaud]

Sounds like a net win. We won't have much choice on UI if people keep making intelligent business calls.

 

[wizzard426]

Cutting costs and increasing sales does sound like a very communist thing to do.

Do words still have meanings?

it frees up more pasty white young communists for field work. I'm sure you look just smashing in your che shirt weeding my garden!

 

[wizzard426]

Food trucks would be an excellent candidate to be full EV. They drive very little and site for long periods at a time. As to an engine, electric now goes to 49,000 HP. So finding a powerplant to move the truck isn't an issue...which kind of fucks up the point you were trying to make.

Nope, finding the powerplant isn't an issue. It's the "POWER" part that has you idiots in such a tizzy!

So, where is this magic going to come from that lets the EV truck sit there all day..............that kilowatt hour meter still just a humming counter clockwise................................

 

[Fuzzy1975]

Nope, finding the powerplant isn't an issue. It's the "POWER" part that has you idiots in such a tizzy!

So, where is this magic going to come from that lets the EV truck sit there all day..............that kilowatt hour meter still just a humming counter clockwise................................

^^^^^^^^^

Showing you don't understand the subject you're talking about....

 

[MajorRewrite]

The minimum wage has been raised multiple times in the past. It hasn’t eliminated jobs.

As Goldman Sachs analysts recently noted, citing a state-of-the-art 2010 study by University of California economists that examined job-growth patterns across every border in the U.S. where one county had a higher wage than a neighboring county, “the economic literature has typically found no effect on employment” from recent U.S. minimum-wage increases.[1]This report’s findings mirror decades of more sophisticated academic research, providing simple confirmation that opponents’ perennial predictions of job losses when minimum-wage increases are proposed are rooted in ideology, not evidence.

RAISE WAGES, KILL JOBS? SEVEN DECADES OF HISTORICAL DATA FIND NO CORRELATION BETWEEN MINIMUM WAGE INCREASES AND EMPLOYMENT LEVELS

 

[Fuzzy1975]

The minimum wage has been raised multiple times in the past. It hasn’t eliminated jobs.



RAISE WAGES, KILL JOBS? SEVEN DECADES OF HISTORICAL DATA FIND NO CORRELATION BETWEEN MINIMUM WAGE INCREASES AND EMPLOYMENT LEVELS

They say the same thing here. There are now more minimum wage jobs, not less, and the places can't find workers to fill them. Who wants to work for $20.00 an hour dealing with Kens and Karens at Mac D's when you can earn $38.00 driving a dump truck....

 

[lovecraft68]

The minimum wage has been raised multiple times in the past. It hasn’t eliminated jobs.



RAISE WAGES, KILL JOBS? SEVEN DECADES OF HISTORICAL DATA FIND NO CORRELATION BETWEEN MINIMUM WAGE INCREASES AND EMPLOYMENT LEVELS

Not to this extent, and you know that.

What has eliminated jobs is a generation who thinks they can stay home and leech off their parents while the government supports them and pays their debts. Minimum wage keeps going up in this desperate attempt to get these sloths to work, when reality is its not about the pay, but the lack of anything resembling work ethic.

Meanwhile, as usual when the wage goes up, nothing is given to the people who had to work a few years to get to that level, causing them to say "Yeah, well fuck you," and wander off.

The real answer is to get the insane cost of living down, but we'd need "leadership' to that and no one in congress is worried about any wage but their own.