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Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by toast0 on Monday January 17, 2022 @02:17PM (#29970547)
> McDonalds by my house is offering $23/hr for entry level work and robots are nowhere to be seen.

Who's pouring the drinks at your McDonalds? Over the past five or so years, the robots have taken that over. McDonalds has never been a stranger to labor savings, although I don't think they use burger conveyors like other chains, they do lots of little things. They've also been putting in two lane ordering all over the place, which increases throughput.

All these things work together to reduce the people hours to put together an order. Sometimes that means one less person on a shift.

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Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by vba616 on Monday January 17, 2022 @06:53PM (#29973078)
Is reducing the number of employees per McDonald's a bad thing if the total wages and total employees for all McDonald'ses go up?
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Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by morelisp on Monday January 17, 2022 @02:59PM (#29971065)
> Who's pouring the drinks at your McDonalds?

Generally, prior to COVID-19, the customers themselves.

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Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by toast0 on Monday January 17, 2022 @03:59PM (#29971633)
How about in the drive through? Moving the pouring of dine in/take out to the customers happened mid 200x, and saved labor back then, too.
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Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by morelisp on Monday January 17, 2022 @04:08PM (#29971709)
> Moving the pouring of dine in/take out to the customers happened mid 200x

At least 10 years earlier. Probably more but that's outside my memory range.

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Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by toast0 on Monday January 17, 2022 @06:30PM (#29972920)
Here's a discussion from 2002 where someone says 'all the new McDonald's have serve-yourself-drinks' but older stores still had them behind the counter. At some point, most existing stores retrofitted self-serve, too. Other chains had it way earlier for sure.

https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-refill-policy-in...

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Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by staticassertion on Monday January 17, 2022 @03:32PM (#29971389)
Via a machine.
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