Author Topic: $15 An Hour Backlash: Wendy’s to Roll Out Self-Serve Kiosks by End of 2016  (Read 9860 times)

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They are very common everywhere.

Self checkout is a bit different than kiosk ordering. WaWa is a chain that does this with their food section. It works very well.

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Well they can roll that shit back in. Wendy's is disgusting.

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walmart has these self-checkouts now.  It's the same way.   There's like 3 steps... scan, put in basket, pay.   These folks spend 6 minutes buying 2 candy bars.  Annoying.   



2 problems - you're at walmart, and you're in dumbfuck florida.   If you came up here you'd see that............


















......it's exactly the same.
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walmart has these self-checkouts now.  It's the same way.   There's like 3 steps... scan, put in basket, pay.   These folks spend 6 minutes buying 2 candy bars.  Annoying.   

self-serve isn't always a good idea when it requires decision making, or multiple steps.  If you think the McD employees suck at their job, imagine the average inbred Trump voter from the street, trying to place a complex order at that same register.

I'm in my walmart 2 or 3 times a week and have never seen that happen at self checkout.  Old and dumb people use smart phones all day long, this won't be some big problem like you're making it out to be.

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Agreed. The minimum wage increase may have sped this process up, but it was bound to happen sooner or later. It was just a matter of time.

Just LOL @ your assertion that your stupid economic beliefs don't have real consequences. Such Keynesian retardation.

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I'm in my walmart 2 or 3 times a week and have never seen that happen at self checkout.  Old and dumb people use smart phones all day long, this won't be some big problem like you're making it out to be.

Read the post directly above yours...Grape Ape sums it up perfectly.

You don't live in white/hebrew trash central Florida and therefore you have escaped these issues.

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Id say out of all the fastfood places, its probably the "best" and "cleanest."


Wendy's is one of the best.  The beef is flat griddled and never frozen and is always cooked to order.

I recommend getting the triple cheeseburger, the largest burger they have.  Actually that is my recommendation for all fast food or hamburger places.  Order the biggest burger you can get with the most meat to bun ratio.  Wendy's has a good triple.

Yup. In 'n' Out is excellent too with staff that are well mannered and paid better than average for being so.  QT Gas stations are the same.  They pay above average wages for above average people.  Clean restrooms and a great staff go a long way toward making customers repeat customers.

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http://www.thehindu.com/news/disney-world-sued-for-replacing-american-workers-with-indians/article8154550.ece


Disney already fired several american IT people , replacing them with Indians, over paid American IT losers
 


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http://www.thehindu.com/news/disney-world-sued-for-replacing-american-workers-with-indians/article8154550.ece


Disney already fired several american IT people , replacing them with Indians, over paid American IT losers

They got hammered over that.

I think they ended up giving everyone their jobs back. (Or at least I feel I read that somewhere... I could be wrong though)

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http://www.thehindu.com/news/disney-world-sued-for-replacing-american-workers-with-indians/article8154550.ece


Disney already fired several american IT people , replacing them with Indians, over paid American IT losers

I avoid Disney as much as possible.

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Yup. In 'n' Out is excellent too with staff that are well mannered and paid better than average for being so.  QT Gas stations are the same.  They pay above average wages for above average people.  Clean restrooms and a great staff go a long way toward making customers repeat customers.

I hardly eat fastfood, but if I do, I eat at Wendys or Chipotle. I don't know, Wendys just "feels" healthier than Burger or McDonalds. But I may just be telling myself that to justify eating Wendys.
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^^^^

Disney looks to cut costs at all corners despite making billions off their parks, movies, tv presence, etc. They are a worthless company to work for. Greed to the highest level. Walt Disney is probably rolling in his grave.

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^^^^

Disney looks to cut costs at all corners despite making billions off their parks, movies, tv presence, etc. They are a worthless company to work for. Greed to the highest level. Walt Disney is probably rolling in his grave.

MM thinks otherwise.

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MM thinks otherwise.



Seriously though, how worthless can a company be that was founded based on the American dream and American values to send all of it's software development and IT to India. It's basically giving a middle finger to your history and core values because you're greedy.

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I hardly eat fastfood, but if I do, I eat at Wendys or Chipotle. I don't know, Wendys just "feels" healthier than Burger or McDonalds. But I may just be telling myself that to justify eating Wendys.
No such thing as a healthy food.

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They make an excellent double meat cheeseburger
I like them french fried potaters..
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No such thing as a healthy food.

Some more healthier than others?
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Seriously though, how worthless can a company be that was founded based on the American dream and American values to send all of it's software development and IT to India. It's basically giving a middle finger to your history and core values because you're greedy.

If you think there's any difference between these 'core values' and insatiable greed then you're living in Disneyland.

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Some more healthier than others?
Not really, especially in the broader scheme of eating over long periods of time.

What really matters if you are overweight and no food makes you overweight.  Being in a caloric surplus for too long of a period is what does that and that can occur no matter what food choices you make.

So it makes no difference at all as you are not likely vitamin deficient as you hit the RDA by default anyways.

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So they are going to save a few bucks on a cashier but spend more money on the tech that has to fix that shit ?  ::)
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So they are going to save a few bucks on a cashier but spend more money on the tech that has to fix that shit ?  ::)

I've seen a few of these at some Jack-In-The-Box restaurants.  I much prefer a person though. 

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It already started a while ago at some McDonalds.

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I've seen a few of these at some Jack-In-The-Box restaurants.  I much prefer a person though. 
There is a flagship Whataburger in corpus Christi that has had them for over a decade. Over rated.
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mcdonalds in Australia has had these for ages. You can still line up if you want and order to a person but the kiosks is way easier especially since they have the build your own burger option there too.

Surely this will all be done via a phone app before too long though won't it?

The last time I was in a macca's I stood there like I didn't exist at the register for a good couple minutes.  Some sort of 4th wall force field preventing all interaction with anyone on the other side of the counter.  

Cash.  I tried stuffing it into the swipey inserty slot under the touch screen but nothing happened.  I am technolame.


Aside: CBA wants me to use their machine on the wall to deposit cheques.  "Oh no no, you still get a deposit receipt!"  Ya because everything always works as it should here and there's no chance I'm going to have to convince some incredulous fat lady that fifteen thousand of my dollars are somewhere in their magic electric wall... but I don't have a receipt or anything to prove it.  And no, I don't want to buy any insurance.  I was looking for a bank teller.  Seen one anywhere?  ::)