I guess the automation of the fast food industry will now start in earnest if this comes to pass.
The next round of protests from fast food workers will take place on
Thursday, when people in more than 100 cities will stage sit-ins or walk
off the job as they seek a $15 minimum wage. “On
Thursday, we are prepared to take arrests to show our commitment to the
growing fight for $15,” Terrence Wise, a Burger King employee and a
member of the fast-food workers’ national organizing committee, told The New York Times.
If you had to pay fast food workers $15 an hour I would be willing to bet that 2/3 of them would be fired as soon as a burger making machine is in place. It would be a complicated device but it would amount to an assembly line staffed by robots. About the only humans there would be people that hand bags to customers and take money. Everyone in the food prep area will be let go for sure. I mean $7.25 an hour is too low but $15 is just crazy.
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