If poor people stopped buying stuff, they don't need IE fast food. Then they wouldn't be poor, and flippy will always have customers because fast food is dank.@CarlNipmuc
Lol that journalist forget all electronics & machinery that you use everydays for many hours non stop. Will have issues after 2 years 😂 like a overused car You gonna have an electronic arm stop working. Eyes camera shutting down. Battery area stop working A human cost far less When humanncall sick. Best case scenario he miss pay day. Worst case scenario. You pay some hundreds dollars When a robot has mechanical issue or electronic issue. Best case the element to replace only cost a couple of hundreds of $. Worst case scenario, you gonna need to pay a repair technician + thousands of $ to replace an expensive elements
No insurance ,no stealing merchandise , can work all day, no call ins.... and now we don’t have to worry about nasty employees playing around your food
I think this is awesome! We can train the high school students go into this jobs and so they can look over the robots. There is a future for everybody!
They claim one benefit is that the robots don't require time off and don't call in sick. That just means they've never heard of McDonald's ice cream machine. That thing takes more time off than any fast food worker.
Did you know that most of the "machine is broken" at McDs is just the machine refusing to work because it hasn't undergone a cleaning cycle? 😆 Do you really want dirty ice cream? (Because of that, it's really the employee's fault and not some mythical ice cream machine fixing tech, that they are waiting for.)
This is going to lead to riots listen to me this isn’t a damn laughing manner man so stop with the jokes. People are going to go hungry have so emoathyyyyyyyy
There are plenty of jobs robots can’t do entirely. Most automation is in the form of assisting, not replacing. There probably will be companies that will try to completely automate all the jobs, but it won’t turn out well
Honestly, the whole fast food restaurant should be designed like a vending machine. This is the next evolution after McDonald's first changed everything..
@@JerryJones-d4f im going to gues you ment to say "spit". and yeah some fast food joints are in nasty conditions espesialy the all black run one's, every table is dirty bad food and nasty service
they forget those fired or laid-off employees are customers too. They will run out of money. Your customer base will shrink then you go out of business at the end.
As a low wage restaurant worker, I would love this for helping us. Too many people either quit or call off work making my shifts worse and worse. I work at a busy location and the demand is way greater than the staff we have. Oftentimes, I find myself running around to make food for the drive thru and the lobby and people get mad that they have to wait when we literally got NO PEOPLE in the Kitchen.
Sounds like you are one of the good ones. As they bring in more automation, what they should be doing is paying the quality people more to retain them. If it gets down to say 3 people each making $30-40/hr that's ok because at that rate the people are REALLY good. You're basically managing the machines and process and customer facing. That's where the talent and customer experience is at. And a good experience drives repeat business which is what drives revenue
The most critical point here is that the fryer is the MOST DANGEROUS job in the restaurant. That is why it was automated first. Robert, it won't work that way. Salaries won't go up for the remainder, if anything they will go down as they have fewer positions and plenty of applicants. They only raised their salaries because they couldn't get workers otherwise.
@@jmuench420 the tipped delivery jobs pay REALLY low though. Hard to get enough delivery done for them to make a difference. Since the restaurants already bumped up prices 25% to pay for the "free" delivery, most folks get pretty cheap on tips.
@@redwolfexr I was able to average $16-$20 take-home for as many hours as I wanted. Good shifts were generally $25-$35+ per hour. My $4/hr wage just paid the taxes with a few bucks left over
Flippy is much slower than the fast food workers I saw flipping in the back. They were flipping so fast that it motivated me to finish school and never be a fast food worker.
@@jillpatton3432 which is why I’ll never understand why people fight for McDonald’s employees to make as much an hour as a green guy/gal on a construction job site running lumber for 10-14 hours a day lol.
@@jillpatton3432 Wrong. The vast majority of minimum wage jobs are done by adults and it's their main source of income. And if they all quit, everything would collapse. They aren't just "fast food workers" they are your janitors, the people who pick all your produce, on and on.
They just installed a "Flippy 2" at my McDonald's. It was awesome, at first. Always getting my order correct. By the 2nd week all the new robot did was look at its cell phone and stopped working completely.
I worked at Arby's in college, and I'd hate someone to lose their job, but I do have to agree that those high volume fry stations in fast food restaurants are extremely dangerous. Burns happen often, way more than they should.
The whole thing is a hit and miss. I literally just had a guy call me a narc because I said even if you work in fast food and a customer is respecting you that still gives you no right to spit in their food etc. This guy kept calling me names and wouldn't stop. Said he's never gotten a "thank you" at work. I told I'm sorry that happened to him and I understand getting less pay which is why managers like me bend over backwards for people like him, because we know they don't get paid enough, my staff also gets weekends off because I volunteer to work every weekend, no one works over 5 days, can take off for emergencies, don't work overtime and are not allowed to work off the clock. Even my boss was 30 minutes over and I walked up to him asking what day it was because I knew he forgot, he said what day it was then I told him it 4. He stopped and thought then cursed because he was supposed to have been gone 30 minutes ago. I told him I would finish up and to go and enjoy his day off tomorrow. We do this with our other staff too. Our job doesn't pay a lot and while we can't control the pay we can at least offer a safe and stress free environment to work in with flexible hours and weekends off and not doing a manager's job. The schedule I have set had a manager in the department every day and no working overtime. This guy was furious and outraged and kept calling me names. Then said all that processed food is poisoned and what does it matter if you spit in the food anyway. That is another reason why fast food workers are being done away with.
@@haydotherapper5401 I do agree with your comment but lets not forget corporations are pretty greedy themselves and even without the min. Wage increases, if they can find a way to fatten their pockets, they will
@@christins.1481 workers in fast food don't deserve more pay. They are already almost getting paid what a full time at Amazon gets. Part time should not be more than $9 an hour. No part time. And that's less than 40 an hour.
my only problem with automation is that these cost savings will likely not be passed on to the customers. So companies are cutting jobs, getting themselves and their shareholders richer, while not benefiting their customers in any new way.
*I live in California, and I've never had a problem with the so-called ice cream machines breaking down at McDonalds. Then I went on vacation to Louisiana, and every single McD's I went always said their machine wasn't working* 😅
That must mean there is nobody maintaining it at all, think about it, you have to clean it and check it to make sure it is functioning right and we know that most workers don't do that if at all.
YES, they will sooner or later. Actually there's going to be a lot of jobs eliminated by robots and AI. The really crappy part is Ill bet you almost anything prices wont go down. However, CEO profits will go up. The thing we have to think of is once you eliminate millions of jobs what happens then.
What happens then is that a bunch of unemployed idiots with no skills will complain about how nobody wants to hire them. Congrats, the current generation of entitled idiots are ruining things for their own kids.
What happens then is that a bunch of unemployed idiots with no skills will complain about how nobody wants to hire them. Congrats, the current generation of entitled idiots are ruining things for their own kids.
Much of the talk in the video centered around company profits. It’s not just restaurant work there’s a lot of jobs have been lost in finance etc. to automation.
@@craig8638 Its coming for all from 3d printed homes, robot brick layers, robot doctors, self driving semi trucks, self learning AI that can replace many white collar jobs. Make no mistake they arnt focused on no skill jobs its not a matter of if its a matter of when "your" job will be taken by a robot. Everyone was so focused on can we no one thought "should we"
4:10 the human workers $12.07 at 8 hours every day works out to $2,703.68 which is saving $796.32 per month (28 days) but then if you take into account that the robot can work 24 hours a day for the human to do the same amount would cost $8,111.04 24/7 for one month (28 days) which means that by getting the robot you are saving $4,611.04 per month (28 days) if your restaurant is open 24/7 which means that you will pay off the robot in 60 days 17 hours and 29 minutes and then you make profit
In some ways working in fast food looks like it's getting better. At the McDonalds by my work they barely take orders anymore they have the kiosks do it. Not having to interact with customers has to be a huge quality of life improvement. Being a customer is like a temporary mental illness
All that you just said .. is sad .. the fact hat u sound like I take comfort in that is miserable … that’s not a improvement that’s a prison . Be an adult and deal with people deal with life there isn’t a kiosk for everything we as a country need to revert to conventional ways and stop being lazy and scared to deal with people . This country is lame because of this type of attitude
These fast food chains would replace every single worker if they could. it was never about employees, it was always about the bottom line and saving a buck.
These machines are not expensive - The MAIN reason this isn't happening faster is because most of these fast food companies fall under an umbrella corp. If they brought in the machines overnight that would be the biggest layoff ever. They are simply cutting the work force.... slowly.... very slowly.
We were warned this would happen. Eventually, robots will run entire fast food restaurants, including taking your order. Only computer techs will be present to fix anything that breaks down.
With residents demanding 25, 30, 50 USD/hour, it's to be expected if you want the current prices to remain. Otherwise the cost of everything will keep rising, till no one can afford to live there.
I saw so many restaurants in Korea with robot cooks and it's not just fast food. They also have robot server where they will deliver from kitchen to table. Things are changing really quickly
This is for the better. I worked part time at dominoes. Eveyone always says how easy these jobs are, and yes they’re easy to pick up. It’s the amount of work and hours that’s a killer. I was “part time” and had to work like 13 hours most days because we were short staffed and had to deal with so many damn orders. It’s honestly some of the hardest work out there, and I challenge anyone who thinks it’s easy to go work at a busy and packed fast food place and see how “easy” it is, not to mention we’re barely paid anything for our work.
I like this. Not just for the sake of robotics and dependability, but I am wondering ....can the robots make the food better and more consistent. I think they can.
You're absolutely correct. This is why robots manufacture the critical core structural components of every vehicle when they're new. Consistent welds and consistent build quality.
@@organizedchaos4559 u actually think min wage workers in fast food are putting some kinda extra "human touch" into the food to make it better? LOL Not likely at all.
$21.6 million in expenses with only $36,150 in revenue for Miso Robotics in 2021 and they are considered the biggest and best known competitor in the market. It sounds like they (and the whole food robotics industry) have a way to go before they become profitable.
They made a profit… you need to go back to business school or go read more while on the toilet. However you are getting your info. Even if they made $1 they are making a profit. There are TONS of companies that are massive and don’t make profit. Uber, Lyft, etc. so this company to actually make any profit is going good after all the expenses.
No, it sounds like you don't even remotely understand how an R&D heavy technology business develops, at all. But hey, I am totally in favor of you talking yourself and lots of other underinformed people out of investing in Miso.
I can imagine one day there will be massive warehouses full of these robots making fast food and handing it over to self driving cars to be delivered to customers, just an engineer or 2 to keep an eye on the whole thing.
They don't need an engineer to keep an eye on the robots. Any warehouse worker can be trained to do this. I saw a video about Amazon using robots, and they had a warehouse worker supervising the robots.
Saying "Flippy doesn't call in sick" is just one good thing. The other side is that when Flippy does malfunction or stops working, who do the franchisee call to fix it? The in house techs? No, what happens is that managers need to call a service rep to come out and repair. This is another substantial cost I'm sure.. The down time causes issues in workforce productivity because if it is a substantial repair the unit may have to be moved out and re set up for human interactions. I can only imagine the employees at White Castle who have to work around a tech who has parts all over the kitchen. Working in the manufacturing industry for over 30 years I can tell you the biggest issue with these start up companies and their high tech machines is getting them to work as described and stay up. When a rep does get called out to fix their machines it was at a huge cost to the company. The down time was immense.
As a former fast food worker Im glad. Sometimes conditions are downright inhumane. Close tight quaters that sometimes feel like if you were working in a sauna, long hours, grabing fried food almost right out of the frier with your gloved hand (the glove doesnt insulate at all so you feel you hand burning), rush hour stress and rude coustumers. Im glad that feelingless, stressfree machines will take those jobs
try working in a dry cleaner, especially during the summer where there is no air condidtioning and risk of permanent lung damage is always present due to the chemicals used to dry clean your clothes.
This is one of the key reasons low skilled jobs are getting replaced with robots in the first place. If your job doesn't require critical thinking, specialised or social skills, creative input or problem solving then it is MUCH more efficient to employ a robot.
Honestly if this helps the workforce by reducing work-related injuries due to repetitiveness, then I think it's a good thing. Throughout history several jobs became obsolete as times changed. My only worry is of course the unemployment of those who would otherwise work in this task.
@@pragueexpat5106 That doesn't answer the question of what you do while it's non-functioning/malfunctioning. You can't just uninstall it like its a coffee lid to access the friers.
@@kzkz1192 isn't it more a scandal on McDs employees refusing to take the time to run a cleaning cycle, and that's why the machine "refuses to operate"? 😆 If only the machine itself could tell customers the reason, instead of getting "employee-splained". 😆
@@cmoulden78 I'm 61 years old Got blood pressure issues Already had a stroke and I absolutely guarantee I have 30 years left in me Everybody in my family lives into at least early 90s Four family members in excess of 100
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Robots for precision surgeries already exist and multiple studies show that they are much less likely to make a mistake in their tasks they are programmed to do
The thing is these robots will replace the jobs of dozens of employees and in return only have 1 repair guy. That's a net loss of ~20+ jobs per location, how can that possibly be supplemented?
@@padarousou do you really want to do that work anyway? Hopefully the US will give more money so people can do higher level or jobs they would want. There's plenty of jobs. It's the corruption that's preventing it
Customers, not robots, will replace fast food employees. The same goes for banks, supermarkets and other services. They pass it off as "smart working", "internet banking", "fast checkout", "fast order" but in fact they make customers work (who also pay for what they do) and fire employees. For example, I wouldn't be surprised if in the future it will be sold as a great innovation to ask customers to also unload supermarket pallets in addition to making their other various "self services".
Too late dollar general has that model and has it worked out. Also there is a channel where a girl goes in a store and works for free. She is doing well. You know someone is always ready to copy a good idea.
Naw. Curbside machine is too expensive. (Land cost) Cheaper to have this fast-food machine running off in a warehouse somewhere, and have delivery drivers go out to it. 😆 I'm going to coin the term, robotic ghost kitchen. (Can a robot have ghosts? 😆 👻)
And now that a Big Mac costs $20 bucks this looks even more appealing. When you lose your job thank the people who swore they were helping you by outrageously increasing the minimum wage when really they were just to help help their own career
The irony of them using robots to save money is that once enough companies automate, there's gonna be no one making enough money to buy their products.
Employment will shift around to compensate. We existed just fine before the day the "fastfood worker" came into existence. People will find better jobs and the encouragement to actually become educated goes up as well. Fewer jobs that require next to no skill or thinking the better.
@Daniel Beehn While you are correct in some of the societal benefits here, none of this matters when it comes to business. Capitalism is just that. Profit over all else. For a business that employs people to menial tasks and basic repetitive labor, there is no better alternative than automating the entire process. No more 401k, no more unemployment insurance premiums, no more massive medical plan costs, huge reduction in taxation as you are no longer paying wages for labor. No potential lawsuits from robotic workers looking to make a quick buck on injury claims. No harassment suits to ruin the company. On top of all of this, the most beneficial trait gained here is the ability to produce goods 24/7 without interruption. No holidays, no weekends, just endless continual work without complaint. Surely you see it by now, we've always wanted this as far back as this country's foundation. How great was it on the farmer of old without morals to have absolutely no worker overhead cost? Surely you recognize that leopards do not change their spots. If a business can have virtually "free" labor... no business worth its salt will go without it. Again, humans do not matter in the end for Capitalism, only profit matters. Once you remove the 'slave' modifier (as it does not apply to inanimate objects) you will see every corporation and every business adopt such practices. It isn't morality that has been stopping this behavior or the desire... it has been the law and this move to severe the 'human element' removes that issue entirely altogether. This is why you will see it take over businesses in the future as standard practice once more. There is a large difference between _wanting_ to hire employees and _needing_ to hire employees.
@@XyphonXero -Profits don't flow if people don't have money to spend. There are already to many "over educated" people we don't have jobs for. You need to educate yourself on the true state of the economy.
@LA Johnson Business isn't exactly depending on the low income earners to support them. There are 330M people in this country so removing simplistic industries is but mere fractions that attribute to profits. These same workers barely get by as is so no, they are not a major factor in any of this. Even in that event, we have an entire world to sell goods to. Human workers add a tremendous amount of overhead with all of the potential liabilities attached. Even if sales dropped by 35%... the business is still coming out ahead. Employees are extremely costly with all of the benefits that have to be paid just in order to compete for workers in the market. Robotic workers eliminate this. History repeats.
While I have a big problem with a lot of the ways that corporations are filling jobs with robots, using robots to fry food makes a lot of sense. I remember the nasty forearm grease burn that a friend of mine had from a fast-food job when we were teenagers. It left a large permanent scar. Deep frying foods is hazardous and tedious and it's one of those things that really makes sense to utilize robots for.
@@therealdeal3672 people don't need jobs they need to save all microscopicbabies embryothers phitusisters grandadults love God with all heart and soul ♥️
So if robots can assemble cars that are practically self driving with lane keep assist and etc they are most likely holding back the evolution of robots creating robots lol
I'm surprised the fast food chains haven't been more aggressive about implementing automation. It would really be much more effective if they reengineered their kitchens and food prep methods around automation, instead of trying to force automated systems into existing kitchen designs (which is what the company in this video is doing.) I've said for a while that I wondered if at McDonald's headquarters, they had a fully automated test kitchen running to work out the bugs.
A few years ago humans were plentiful and cheap and robots were expensive. Now humans are not plentiful nor cheap and robots are getting cheaper by the day. Right now a raspberry pi quad core computer with 8 gb of memory running Linux costs less than $100. The only real expense of a robotic system is the application software, but once it is developed, the ongoing costs are low.
Used to be in the past that working in these places were not career positions, unless you owned a franchise yourself. Else, these were just jobs you had in high school or perhaps someone trying to rebuild their life. Now you see the fry cook wanting to be a career position as if they graduated medical school and get paid accordingly to that point. There simply isn't any consumer ability to pay these ridiculous wages and it'll only get worse. Robotic automation certainly isn't cheap but it's at the pivot point of being cheaper today and more so in the future, especially in the long term.
@@oldtwinsna8347- there are not a lot of high school kids to fill the number of open fast food jobs, so fast food restaurants are having to look at older people and compete with other jobs that pay more.
Before I started my own company provideing tailor-made automation systems, individual software solutions and IT outsourcing, I was a freelancer designing, modifying and fixing all kinds of industrial automation. Although I did a lot of work for bigger companies like car manufacturers or pharma corps, most of my clients were SMEs that wanted or had some automation but couldn't afford to keep a specialist like me permanently on their payroll. My rate for an emergency repair job was (at the time) about $500/hr with up to 200% surcharge for weekends, holidays or during nighttime. Granted, those weren't machines frying potatoes or flipping burgers but rather industrial production lines were any stoppage would cost the companies thousands if not tens of thousands per hour, but still, the point is: qualified personnel in the field of automation isn't cheap and if you need them ASAP, it will cost you even more. Since I don't think that franchise owners are willing or able to afford someone like me on a short notice, they rather buy automation solutions that are build to operate "made for human" machines so that in case the robot breaks down, they can at least put a worker at the station and continue production until someone eventually comes and fixes the thing.
The way restaurants manage their labor hours, giving random schedules of 4 hour shifts that always change, and calling people in last minute vs just offering more hours up front, etc, they cause their own labor problems.
Just remember that the employee's time to clean was during downtime. Now your stores are not as clean as the staff does not get to work during downtime. @linda1909
Whatever benefits you right? Be sure to cut jobs so there's more crime and people on welfare. As well as less paying customers due to lack of the ability for people to make an income. Make sure the robots are made in China as well so they can benefit from you betraying your own neighbors. But I know what you're saying. Having to employ women must be a real headache. As well as all the weaklings who act like Influenza is a death sentence and they need two weeks off paid. I saw it in my workplace. As soon as the company offered two weeks paid leave for the one specific illness of little Influenza most of the women immediately "got sick" to take advantage of a paid vacation. But if you get cancer and miss work screw you that doesn't matter. Maybe you simply are not paying people enough to give a damn? I'm more shocked you still get any business at all because I don't eat out at all due to the high cost and it's usually never worth it anywhere. Let's not forget your employees who at least come to work and contribute even if they are a headache. Meanwhile the Gov overlords straight up steal from your business, you, and your employees who lose the will to give a damn because of taxes. As well as steal about half my income and I can't support any restaurant business at all as a result. Eating out used to be an option but now it's an upper class luxury. Even fast food prices are ridiculous now. But I'm sure that's your employees fault instead of the welfare state sponges and corrupt Gov correct?
The fast food places where I currently live are so bad. It’s like they want you to feel bad just for being there and ordering. I’ve tried to have the simplest order possible and be over the top kind, and it doesn’t change anything. The second you walk up, you get eye rolls, and they’re on their phones half the time. I’d rather deal with robots. Chick-fil-a is the only one that is different and actually kind. They’re always way more busy than the others anyway, so they have more of a reason to be rude.
@@ZOM23official I hate it too! And sometimes I stare back and just wait for them to say how can I help you and if they don’t I’ve walked away and went through the drive-through which was not much better🤣
balance is a must. just replace dangerous extreme jobs with robots but humans will always be needed. humans are simply too flexible and can adjust to situations , but robots can be dramatic help
Exactly what south park said. Rise in crime and chaos. Robots don't need a paycheck to survive. And they certainly can't be driven to the limits due to depression.
I used to work at a pipe threading and pressure testing plant ,worked 3rd shift for 3years ,out of the blue on Thursday morning in 1991 ,after our shift we were called into a safety meeting, we were informed that 2nd and 3rd shift were shut down permanently, we could pick up our pay Friday after 2:00 first shift was kept long enough to prepare and program the machines that replaced us This was in Alabama in 91 ,dont think for a minute it cant or wont happen to you, its only a matter of time
@@ashleyrose424 Cars are a massive money sink for the driver, and reduce the incentive to walk or cycle, which is detrimental to physical and mental health. My dad was in his 40s before he got his license, mainly because his job sites were changing frequently. I'm 43 and I've never owned a car.
@@jamsjars9505 you find that strange? Workers are people. And they could be dripping mucus while sick or coughing particles on it. Or blk workers that are just gross. I saw a blk male touching a blk female parts with his hand and using that to make food. I cant wait to move to a witer area.
So... corporations will spend tens of thousands of dollars on a robot that only replaces ONE employee? After all, the robot doesn't... make mistakes, need breaks, call out sick, need maternity leave, get a salary, ask for a raise, it doesn't talk back, or have an attitude problem, or go on strike. Seems to me that this is the elimination of a workforce for more obedient slave labor.
@@devilselbow Well, I do know how to grasp the context of a statement correctly. Because, by "slave labor", I was referring to the robot as slave labor. Which is technically correct. If Artificial Intelligence continues to progress, how long before sentient machines are crying for their freedom? One doesn't have to be a slave to understand the nature of slavery. Plus... "Goofball" I'm African American, descendent of slaves.
Fr. Also, it’s hilarious that the video claims it will replace a full employee. I work at a Maccas, and there is usually one person on fries during peak hours, handling both cooking fries and bagging them up. The solution to the issue isn’t more technology, but rather to put systems in place to protect workers rights. I doubt they’d put a sentient AI on something like a fry machine, but if AI could become sentient, I’d worry about them putting it on customer interactions (the current models don’t allow for sentience, as they’re just pulling out patterns from the data set)
@@RickDidaz What about A.I.? I know that doesn't apply here, but is it wrong to force an intelligent, sentient machine to perform your labor? The moment a machine has the will to say "no" it becomes a living being.
This robot actually replaces THREE employees if it's a White Castle that is open 24 hours a day. Many White Castle Restaurants are open 24 hours a day which means they have 3 shifts of employees working 8 hours a day, then the robot will replace THREE employees.
There's a 2D animation called "the last job on Earth" where a woman wakes up and is the only one going to work as everyone else is unemployed and standing outside a food bank. When she finally gets to work she is greeted by a message on her computer that she's been replaced. It's also depressing but a well worth animation to watch.
Considering how much abuse human workers get from fast food managers and many people quitting to get away from the abuse and pursue better careers, I say this is a win-win situation
@@PeugeotRocket I like to see YOU work at a fast-food restaurant without experiencing abuse from customers, managers and other working peers for the next couple of years!
@@youngmasterzhi Because the word you are choosing is not an accurate representation of what most people go through. Pressures of the job are not abuses.
This is actually great. There is a knee jerk "they took our jobs" response when faced with robots, but i am always hearing that nobody wants to work in food
@@saulgoodman2018 People need to start somewhere. If you have no work experience and are young and doing a job that doesn't require much skill, nobody is going to pay you that much. Minimum wage in California is currently $15.50/hr. They are forming a commission to set minimum wage for fast food workers at $22/hr. How much do you think an employer will pay before it is cheaper to have automation?
Having worked the fry station for Arby's and Backyard Burger (started by former Arby's executives & regional managers) I can tell you that you have to anticipate the demand to have food cooked before the customer orders it. The trick is you can't always get it right. Your supervisor or manager will blame you always for having gotten it wrong. They also cut employees when the traffic hits a low spot for the least bit of time or it happens to be one of the slow days. So employees get sent home 4-6 hours early, they miss out on the pay they were counting on, and also get called in when there is a rush. And if you don't come in when they call you your hours get dicked around with. Often leading to not enough hours to cause you to quit. Poor management is a common thing in fast food joints and retail in general. Funny how the assistant managers, supervisors, and managers never are the ones to take time off. Cutting people loose saves them money.
This happens in mcdonnals. There is a confirm button but I havn't even paid yet. Sometimes there is a queue for the customer to pay cash, but the food is already cooked.
"Funny how the assistant managers, supervisors, and managers never are the ones to take time off." It's actually not funny. Many managers can't take time off even if they wanted to. When you're salary, being at the store all day long is more of a punishment than anything else. I used to work in excess of 70 hours per week and would sometimes make less than minimum wage. Look, I agree with you that poor management is common, but I also think that management is the first to be blamed when something goes wrong. You said they always blamed you, but it isn't like they're out of the hot seat. Whatever, I don't really care, and I don't want to have a back and forth over this.
damn... in my country sending workers home early and not paying them or calling them in in rush days/hours is considered *modern slavery* and it's illegal :l of curse it happens here and there, but at least there's a chance of the company getting sued and the workers getting their pay
@@chadd990 I was offered a promotion to supervisor at another job. I turned it down by remarking I make more money hourly than that role pays in salary, I have to do more, work crazy long hours, and I get paid less for it? My peers thought I was nutty for turning it down until I gave my reasons.
I think this is a great idea. Going to a fast food restaurant ran by a bunch of teenagers who could care less about being there is by far the worst part of the experience…
Teens who want to earn their own money work. Teens who wouldn't care about your order will no longer be employed. Automation can only do so much in these places.
Those damn teens need to learn the value of a dollar and doing a hard day's work! But not at a 'job', just.. you know.. as a general concept I can yell about...
Yup the eIites will WIPE out the "useIezz eaterz" with the next vi-rus, and then they will just sell to each other and live off their own production...🧐
I managed and held down a sandwich shop at nights by myself many years ago and I absolutely hated it. Sometimes I wouldn't walk out of the restaurant til a little after 12am just from prepping for the mornings and cleaning the place. When you work by yourself, customers don't care. I hate working in the public. Now that I'm a software engineer, I starting to see the automation side as well. And, its beautiful! I believe that humans and robots can work together to make it easier on our squishy bodies and brains, lol.
When that happens most of us won't be a live yet that would be the starting point from an push to a leap from the deal activities to exploration to the unknown regions of the vast galaxy...
I'm glad I can cook my own food from scratch every day. Nothing is more satisfying than a home cooked meal, where you know exactly what's gone into it, and it's way healthier than manufactured junk food. I do feel for the workers, but in all honesty, fast food jobs are terrible. I hope they find better opportunities
yeah we all do that too bud, but we are also out and about throughout the day so stopping by and grabbing a quick bite before you can make it home, or gettting off a 10 hour shift and you dont want to waste another hour or 2 preparing a meal and cleaning
As someone who's first job ever is currently in the hard labor, minimum wage industry, this can't come soon enough. It's a thankless hard labor low paying job that leaves you covered in grease and sweat, like working at a tire shop. The more automation the better for society. The children are adapting very well to the new tech. It's the old folks caught out. 😛
@@shuckahoseerazzle8486 There is a wrong perception among people that cooking at home is time consuming and inconvenient. Planning is the key. You can do lot of prep work ahead of time that reduces cooking time to 20 mins. It is faster than a drive thru.
I can't wait for this to become the norm! we don't go to fast food joints for a seasoned chef, we go for consistency and now, we might get cleanliness too.
My opinion on this fluctuates with the consistency of my orders. Pre-covid I'd have said no way - post covid it really feels like the food service industry stopped caring about quality and so a little robotic consistency would feel more welcome.
Would the fry cooking robot expect it to be cleaned every few days and shut it down until it is cleaned? If so, then it would perfectly mimic the broken ice cream machine situation.
Flippy can handle jobs that don't need finesse so a fryer station is perfect, Tacos still require a touch that currently can't be replicated by a machine...yet
Of course they will! Any business the can automate will do it. Who remembers supermarket checkers? At my local store there are about 10 cashier stations with maybe 2 open. This means that self checkout is faster. Reducing or eliminating the ever rising employee costs will be part of the roadmap to improved profits.
Automated self checkouts have been around for over 30 years but there are still plenty of people working as cashiers. Also, many people predicted that ATMs would eliminate the need for bank tellers but there are more people working in banks now than before their introduction.
@@krogdog I don't know about US but Spain is doing massive cuts in it's banking system and automating it with more ATMs. There are almost no jobs left inside banks and the current positions are being reduced year by year.
And the checkers are slower at scanning than the old-timers were at punching in every price by hand, and pleasantly chatting with the customer at the same time.
@@animals4955 Did you tip your cashiers on a regular basis? If not, you were not paying for a service, you were paying for a product that you purchased. The human ringing up your purchase was just a "courtesy" provided by the store, not an obligation.
The savings will not be passed to customers. The unskilled workers displaced by automation will struggle to find any work. I don't see an upside to this trend in every sector... just a whole lot of unemployed people.
There needs to be a law where if you use robots youre required to pay the robot a wage with all benefits and raises and then give it to someone whos below standard income
@@t.m9341 The incentive to create robots is to lower the cost of manufacture. In other words, they must all things consider, be cheaper than human labor. We all benefit from innovation including people of low income. If this were not so we would be able to increase prosperity by eliminating things like home computers and automobiles.
@@presto709 everything got cheaper but you lose your job so then everything closes because no one buys anything and then more ppl lose their job and then inflation happens because none of the stores make money 👏
In Japan I think in many cases they already have. They have the coolest machines that make damn near everything and it's quick. Even make a burger or even a pizza!
Where I work we had a vending machine that made fresh fries while you waited. Cooked in oil and delivered in a cup when done. Haven't seen that machine in awhile, but I'm sure the Japanese have them.
Japan is so ahead of the States in regards of integrating technology into everyday life and with the States’s declining birth rate & current xenophobia mood, we r going to b seeing more robots
I worked in a car parts manufacturer. One day 60 robot arms were brought in & over a few months they had replaced 180 people who load casting on the the lines to the cnc machines on 3 shifts. 180 job POOF all gone. Over the next 15 years they brought in more & more & the former 380 work force is under 100 now & producing the same number of parts. In 5 - 3 year contracts we got the equivalent of a 55 cent raise. Company makes $12.5 billion dollars profit a year after our wages are paid
@@fitybux4664 many companies taken hits and can’t operate 24 hours anymore as the late hours don’t bring in a lot of profits - companies can’t profit to pay wages for those hours. But with a bot, if you have one going what’s stopping you from working past normal hours? You just check up on them in the morning.
The greed and intolerance from these company people is amazing. God forbid your workers to take a sick leave or go to the bathroom or on a vacation. Human lives are becoming less and less valuable by each passing day.
