LakeVermilion (272 posts)
4. I'll have to be starving before I use a kiosk at Wendy's
I would certainly pay more for food, if they paid their workers a living wage.
What a liar! In real life, this twerp(ette) would walk into a
Mom-and-Pop place that can't afford such machines, take a look at the prices on the menu board, and walk out without buying anything. And a few months later, twerp(ette) will walk or drive by the
Mom-and-Pop place, see the "Closed" sign, and think, "Serves them right, for selling a hamburger at such an outrageous price!"
W, M, BK, TB, etc. would prefer not to replace workers with machines. Among other reasons, they know customers like a smiling real human being more than some touch screen machine. But W, et al, also know what happens to demand when prices are forced upward.
Look for more Prog hysterics and willful blindness when
Big Burger starts making their sandwiches and fries entirely by machine.
I've already alluded to the fact that
Mom-and-Pop places will be squeezed out of business, as they cannot afford the machines that will allow W, et al, to keep their prices low. Another group of fast-food and near-fast-food restaurants that will be hurt is places whose products are not suited to mechanization - taquerias, burrito joints, sandwich shops, ... .
This stupidity had predictable consequences, and DU-folk are like the
"______-no-evil" monkeys, doubling down on their stupidity.
