Phoenix, AZ After seeing a decline in earnings for the first time in nine years, McDonalds plans to do something no other store of its kind has ever done before; open a store run entirely by robots.
The store is set to open July 4th in Phoenix, Arizona once the state-of-the-art robot remodel is complete. The restaurant will still employee a small team to insure all of the robots are working correctly, the food along with the cleaning supplies remaining stocked and removing the money collected by the robots. If the test launch for the store is a success, visitors to the restaurant can soon expect to see these new robots working in harmony at a speed of 50 times faster than the average human employee, with no chance of error, located in every store all over the country.
The stores new manager, Jay Funkhouser, told CNN that he has worked with the machines in a product development facility in San Francisco for over six months now and speaks highly of the robots.
These things are great! They get their work done in a fast and orderly manner. And they dont ask for cigarette breaks.
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They can't pee in your lemonade either...
Is it McDs causing mass unemployment or the unskilled workers asking for $15/hr? Big question
hmmm, I dont know, I would have to say both sides are to blame, no? Well, sure the workers are asking for $15 which is foolish. But they didnt point it out in clear words in this article, but they did touch on the subject (without explaining why they mentioned it) their share prices. Well, whys that a concern? Well, unless if youve been sleeping under a rock for the last 10 years, you know about McDs slow decline which has been accelerating rappidly as of late. It all started with that Super Size Me Movie that was the moment when people started questioning what is it that they buy from this place called McDs? Is it good for you? It went from that to people talking about all over the place and online, you know P2P marketing but in a bad way to them. You can find youtube videos all over the place showing Big Macs that dont mold or rot 5 years after purchase, same with their fries. Is this really food? Or is it plastic? Or is it both? 100% beef? Last time I checked real beef rots in days, not years! Plus all the food they mix with the plastics in their food is GMO and people dont want that neither. So, people are more informed now, people dont want to eat their Mcfood. The article didnt mention it, but unless if you havent heard google it McDonalds has been losing money fast their earnings have been steadily on decline for the last 11 consecutive months. This is their move of desperation trying to avoid bankruptcy their workers expect $15 an hour, and their customers are fleeing their stores in droves they dont want their plastic, GMO, fake food anymore. Theyre humpty dumpty, and not all the kings horses, or all the kings men wont be able to put him back together again! No, robots will not fix McHumpty Dumpty, people will continue to avoid the so called food they sell, and I think the introduction of robots just might even accelerate their decline even more people dont want their so called food no more, and now, people will feel insulted that the place wont even employ their lazy teenage son who cant get a job even if he looked for one.