What happens when min wage workers demand more money

[vraiblonde]

Local burger joint has robots serving milkshakes

Gulf Coast Burger Co. recently added robots to its Panama City Beach and Destin locations.

www.wjhg.com

“Online, we have a lot of people from a distance who don’t really understand what they do,” Blythe said. “They think they’re taking the server’s job and taking jobs away from America when in reality, it’s just to help our servers out.”

Translation: the robots are replacing servers.

This place is right around the corner from us and it never occurred to me to eat there, but now I will just to see the robots.

Gulf Coast Burger Company | Destin & Panama City Beach, FL

Gulf Coast Burger Company of Destin & Panama City Beach Florida. Innovative and delicious burgers on the beach! Wash it all down with a Cat 5 shake!

www.gcburgerco.com

I'm the person who goes to these places and gets a cheeseburger with LTMO. I don't like a bunch of stuff on my food.

 

[RoseRed]

And suddenly, I need a milkshake!

 

[vraiblonde]

And suddenly, I need a milkshake!

See, and when I want a milkshake I just want a milkshake. Not a milkshake with a cupcake and a candy bar and a Ferrari and a Chippendale dancer.

 

[Kyle]

See, and when I want a milkshake I just want a milkshake. Not a milkshake with a cupcake and a candy bar and a Ferrari and a Chippendale dancer.

Thats why I go to Hooters.

 

[RoseRed]

See, and when I want a milkshake I just want a milkshake. Not a milkshake with a cupcake and a candy bar and a Ferrari and a Chippendale dancer.

Isn't it time for Shamrock Shakes?

 

[vraiblonde]

Thats why I go to Hooters.

Oh, so that's why!

 

[Monello]

The people who have to maintain the robots will be getting paid a lot more than $15 an hour.

 

[DaSDGuy]

The people who have to maintain the robots will be getting paid a lot more than $15 an hour.

Maybe, but one robot repair technician can service many robots.

 

[stgislander]

I wonder if they'll always be broke.

 

[Kyle]

Maybe, but one robot repair technician can service many robots.

I wonder how much the pimp makes.

 

[PrchJrkr]

I wonder how much the pimp makes.

I just KNEW that word would add some spice to this thread.

 

[Gilligan]

I wonder if they'll always be broke.

Nah. They'll use the same company that maintains McDonalds ice cream machines.

 

[Kyle]

They were never broke at the Peoples Drug Store lunch counter.

 

[Sneakers]

The people who have to maintain the robots will be getting paid a lot more than $15 an hour.

True, but I'm sure the restaurant will have a service contract with a repair company, so they don't pay the employee's hourly rate.

 

[Bare-ya-cuda]

As Obama stated maybe the workers that the robots replace can just learn to code. He suggested it for the coal miners, why not fast food worker!

 

[PeoplesElbow]

Thats why I go to Hooters.

I go for the witty banter.

 

[Gilligan]

I go for the witty banter.

I go there only because it is so convenient. The Hooters in Gulfport is right next to the hotel I always stay at. I never look at the wait staff.

 

[PeoplesElbow]

I go there only because it is so convenient. The Hooters in Gulfport is right next to the hotel I always stay at. I never look at the wait staff.

I go to the tilted kilt for the same reasons, it's only two hours away.

 

[flowerlover]

Asbury Solomons has a robot they use in the dining room. The server takes the order as usual for a table. The kitchen staff loads the order on the robot, picks which table(s) to go to, and the server goes to the table to distribute to the diners. When finished eating the staff puts empty dishes, glasses, utensils on the robot and it returns to the kitchen to be unloaded. Doesn't replace any one's job, if anything orders are delivered faster without the server making multiple trips. Pretty cool.

 

[Kyle]

Pretty cool.

Sure.

Right up until it revolts and joins with the Cylons in their holy war against humanity!