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In reply to the discussion: Trump to name fast-food CEO as labor secretary [View all]Tommy_Carcetti
(44,345 posts)31. Not to mention that he's a big fan of shitty automated service machines.
Which in real life work about just as well as this:
http://fortune.com/2016/03/17/automate-fast-food/
This Fast Food CEO Wants to Replace Workers With Robots
CEO of CKE Restaurants Andy Puzder wants to take humans out of the fast food equation.
The Carls Jr. and Hardees parent company could soon implement an employee-free operation as Puzder told Business Insider, I want to try it. The chief executive was inspired by Eatsa, a restaurant that employs just a handful of kitchen workers while all front-of-house procedures are computerizedyou can go in without seeing a single human being.
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Puzder has previously written op-eds speaking out against raising the minimum wage. He argues that it would put a lot of people out of work saying, Does it really matter if Sally makes $3 more an hour if Suzie has no job? But in Puzders ideal scenario, neither Sally nor Suzie would have a job. If youre making labor more expensive, and automation less expensivethis is not rocket science.
Additionally, Puzder would never have to worry about an employee lawsuit again. Machines are always polite, they always upsell, they never take a vacation, they never show up late, theres never a slip-and-fall, or an age, sex, or race discrimination case.
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Not to mention that he's a big fan of shitty automated service machines.
Tommy_Carcetti
Dec 2016
#31
"You are a bad mother! Your children are being placed in the custody of Carl's Jr!"
Initech
Dec 2016
#33
Trump Expected to Name Fast-Food Executive Andy Puzder as Labor Secretary
mahatmakanejeeves
Dec 2016
#10
Even if Hillary had won, there was no way it would make it through a GOP-controlled House
Jose Garcia
Dec 2016
#21
After crowing about Obama's creation of low paying jobs and how the working class is getting screwed
hollowdweller
Dec 2016
#20
Trump's MO is to play the 'nice guy', but choose the RW extremists to actually implement policy
n2doc
Dec 2016
#39
I think one may find a redeemable character or two in The Legion. Not here though. nt
Guy Whitey Corngood
Dec 2016
#38