Robots will be taking over the fast food industry, says Yum Brands CEO (Fox news loves it)

[workinclasszero]

Robots will be taking over the fast food industry, says Yum Brands CEO
Published March 31, 2017

Robots will likely be serving up fast food orders within a decade.

That's according to Yum Brands CEO Greg Creed, whose company owns major brands like Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut. Speaking to CNBC Tuesday, the executive said that automation and artificial intelligence could largely take the place of humans in the food services industry “by the mid (2020s).”

"I think it's gonna happen. We'll see a dramatic change in how machines run things," said Creed, who has been at the head of Yum Brands since 2015.

"With government driving up the cost of labor, it's driving down the number of jobs," he said last March. "You're going to see automation not just in airports and grocery stores, but in restaurants."

http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2017/03/31/robots-will-be-taking-over-fast-food-industry-says-yum-brands-ceo.html

[FarPoint]

1. Disquesting....

An upgraded vending machine...Learn to cook at home folks.

[Cooley Hurd]

2. Robots don't BUY burgers...

[WinkyDink]

8. Nor will any humans, without jobs and paychecks.

[sarcasmo]

15. That's why UBI is need sooner rather than later.

[workinclasszero]

3. "With government driving up the cost of labor, it's driving down the number of jobs,"

IOW fuck your 15 dollar an hour demands slaves!

So lets recap...retail jobs dying off to online stores, trucking, taxi and many other driving jobs on the verge of being totally automated in ten years or so.

Uh...where the fuck are 321 million Americans supposed to get a damn job???

[Horse with no Name]

4. I'm sorry

I will not partake in a computer serving my food.
The chains can do this all they want.
Forward thinkers will open competing local restaurants that hire people.

[workinclasszero]

5. Who the hell would want to go to a robotic restaurant anyway?

That's just stupid. These greedy scumbags will put themselves right out of business!

[AngryAmish]

9. I have.

McDonald's with an ordering kiosk. I also go to banks with robot tellers, ATM machines.

[WillowTree]

17. Panera Bread has the ordering kiosks, too.

And Chili's and Red Robin have both installed tabletop payment tablets. Automation of many things is inevitable.

[Nevernose]

7. Nope. No way.

I won't even use the self checkout for a single item at the grocery store.

[crazycatlady]

13. some sit-down restaurants are starting to do this

They have tablets at the table where you can do things like request the check (and calling the server over).

I can't remember if you can get your drinks refilled by that or not.

[flotsam]

6. They pull this bullshit out of their ass every time we talk raising wages...

it's usually accompanied by a picture of a burger making machine and evil republican giggling. Yep-that machine can make burgers-but it requires a machine operator. Someone has to feed it patties and buns and someone has to prep and load tomatoes, lettuce and cheese slices, and fill the condiment dispensers. Notice they never show it accompanied by the McMuffin machine and the chicken nugget machine and the fishwich machine, the french fry robot, the coffee automation station and dozens more???Cookie ovens that load themselves. Pie Machines. Who makes the 5 varieties of salad, the 10 chicken sandwiches?


Here's their menu: https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/full-menu/burgers.html


If you check you will find it lists 10 different burgers. Look at the breakfast menu-does the burger machine cook pancakes or make breakfast burritos?? It's a bullshit bluff.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

10. Knowing my experience with self service kiosks, that will go swimmingly

Inevitably a rep has had to stand by and assist because the stupid things never work right.

That's one of the reasons I stopped using them and avoiding them at all costs.

What works for gas pumps doesn't really work where you have a variety of specialized products being sold.

[killbotfactory]

11. AI and automation will be taking over white-collar jobs as well

No one will do a damn thing to help so long as it's only people with less prestigious jobs who are getting screwed.

[dembotoz]

12. Robots will not require a billo sized payout.

As computer generated graphics improve. Who knows, fox viewers will not even notice

[duncang]

14. A large portion of my work history has been to put people out of jobs.

I have installed remote sensing and control systems on oil and gas platforms. Installed the same thing at a coal mine/power plant. Installed automated systems for warehouse management. Installed remote sensors and controls at oil and chemical plants.

That was all just a beginning to what is going to happen. If you can track and quantify a movement or interaction that will be mimicked and the person will be replaced. Look at the autonomous cars. How soon after they make further in roads there will there be semi's driving down the road with out a driver maybe just some one monitoring a group of them? The semi will pull up to warehouse robots will unload, store, and then ship the cargo out.

The future of jobs will be looking for that job that someone can't really quantify the exact movements. Jobs where the cost of automation out weighs the cost of people. Or jobs to replace component parts. And those will not last forever.

[StarryNite]

16. The only bright side I see is that

somebody will have to build the robots. I'm sure China will get the nod to do it though. Building the robots can be outsourced. People actually working in the restaurants can't.

I hate those self checkout registers and do everything I can to avoid them except sometimes they are the only registers open.