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Hamburger automator Alexandros Vardakostas has opened his long anticipated restaurant and now presents himself as the cheerful, welcoming entrepreneur in the video below: But in 2012, he was quoted in Xconomy saying, “Our device isn’t meant to make employees more efficient; it’s meant to completely obviate them.” Vardakostas was just saying what many business […] June 29th, 2018 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: Alex Vardakostas, automation, Creator restaurant, fast food, hamburger, kiosk, robot, unskilled workers |  Email This Post |  Print This Post Automation is increasingly coming to a burger joint near you. Companies like McDonald’s have already begun adding kiosks for ordering. Now we are seeing robots with moving parts like Flippy working the grill. A year ago, Greg Creed, the CEO of Yum Brands (which include Pizza Hut, KFC and Taco Bell), opined “I do […] March 7th, 2018 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, burger joint, fast food, immigration, job displacement, restaurant, robot, robot burger flipper, technological unemployment | Email This Post | Print This Post Does Japan offer a preview of the near future of more robots? Perhaps, since the nation has an aging population, and it has rejected immigration as a source of labor, choosing automation to pick up the slack. The Atlantic magazine takes a look in a new article that visits a robot restaurant in a robot […] December 9th, 2017 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, fast food, hotel, immigration, job displacement, job loss, robot, smart machines, technological unemployment | Email This Post | Print This Post Former McDonald’s CEO Ed Rensi appeared Friday on Fox Business and voiced opinions about the automation threat to employment. Fmr. McDonald’s CEO: Human workers can’t compete with robot replacements, Fox Business, August 11, 2017 Former McDonald’s USA CEO Ed Rensi said regulation will force restaurants to turn to technology to make a profit. “Not […] August 14th, 2017 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, fast food, immigration, job displacement, McDonald's, restaurant, robot, technological unemployment | Email This Post | Print This Post The automation revolution keeps picking up speed as the machines get better. Today’s news included a report from Fox Business about McDonald’s introduction of kiosks to replace human order takers in its restaurants. The company saw the writing on the wall last year with the noisy campaign to demand big pay raises for fast food […] July 29th, 2015 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, cheap labor, fast food, job displacement, robot | Email This Post | Print This Post |
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