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Policies have consequences.
Socialists tend to think of the world as a puzzle in which they clear away the obstacles and then they can arrange it how they please. In reality, it’s a dynamic living system that responds and counters all the various policies that leftists love to impose.
Welcome to Hotel California. Just don’t expect lunch because no one can afford to pay the waiters.
Moonstone Bistro, a popular fine-dining restaurant in west Redding, has announced they will stop serving lunch, citing California’s increased minimum wage requirements as a critical factor…
“We want to be able to hire people,” said Moonstone Bistro’s Executive Chef/Owner Che Stedman. “But anybody, if they have experience, now wants much more than $20/hour. And if they have no experience, their opening ask is $20/hour. Why wouldn’t it be?”
“Let’s talk about this,” he posted on Facebook. “That’s $41,600 per year, 5 paid days off, 401(k) and health insurance that now I have to pay! Because I won’t be able to hire anyone unless I meet this new fast food standard… Because hiring someone…ANYONE… now costs $41,600. 5 paid days off. Health Insurance and a 401(k). But wait!! You also need to pay Workman’s Comp! And have liability insurance! And….Employer Contribution taxes! Yes. Required by law. By the time your done hiring a single, non experienced, no work history minimum wage employee, your out of pocket about $54,000.”
One restaurant has an answer.
The world’s first fully autonomous, AI-powered restaurant recently opened in Southern California.
Robots cook the burgers and deep-fry the French fries at CaliExpress by Flippy, a new restaurant that opened in December. The restaurant is located at 561 E. Green Street in Pasadena.
Guests who visit the restaurant can watch the robots prepare their meals from start to finish after they place an order. Orders can also be customized, a news release said.
The restaurant came to life thanks to the partnership between Cali Group, a technology forward holding company, Miso Robotics, the creator of Flippy, the world’s first AI-powered robotic fry station, and PopID, a technology company that uses biometrics to simplify ordering and payment systems.
The restaurant’s menu consists of burgers, cheeseburgers and French fries.
“To our knowledge, this is the world’s first operating restaurant where both ordering and every single cooking process are fully automated,” John Miller, CEO of PopID, said in a statement.
The service may be worse, but the costs will end up being more affordable.
More small businesses will close and operations will become consolidated by a handful of companies with the deep pockets and the tech to scale automated restaurants across the state and the country. And leftists will use that to denounce “late stage capitalism” rather than what it really is which is late stage socialism.
Totally fake. That bullshit hamburger factory is doomed to failure. It will drift into irrelavance before you can say pickles are for fags.
On the plus side, you can go in there and not worry about some tranny spitting in your food (or worse) because you call him “sir”.
Sounds like a lose lose situation to me. Fake hamburger chefs or fake men. They’re both a joke.
Dad scoffed at the idea of robotic milking machines. The equipment has been developed and is on the job. By the by. With all the other innovations in the dairy industry – such as genetic improvement and operator education – milk is a bargain! If production methods of 1960 were still in place a gallon of milk would be some where around $20 per.
If I’m not mistaking… Milk is subsidized by the American government… intentionally to keep prices down…
It is one of the items counted in the GDP to make it look like Inflation is lower than what it is… a trick played on the masses of Americans…
Milk costs more than twice what it did before Beijing Biden was installed as Resident of America.
Actually – the value of the dollar dropped making milk and a lot of other stuff APPEAR to ‘cost’ more. Inflation is the economic term.
Uh, five bucks compared to $1.80 is more than an appearance. It’s real money.
I actually drink milk so I know the difference between reality and Bidenflation.
Currently there are no ‘subsidies’ (for Dairy) – since ’29 (the crash) various schemes were attempted to increase producer income as production far exceeded demand. The grubernment purchased powdered milk and cheese – at one point paying farmers to remove animals from production – ALL FAILED! The small family dairy farm was destroyed -regardless! (Anyways another story!)
The grubernment does administer an ‘order’ system. Essentially ensuring that any producer can bring product to market and be paid. This came about due to the market chaos due to that pesky crash of ’29! The explanation of the system would take up to much of this forum! Milk is somewhat exceptional as its shelf life is short (although improved due to tech!!) and a big deal for American Children. Currently production and consumption of dairy is close to on par. Whatever is produced is consumed.
Should point out that many other base agricultural commodities – primarily KING corn (Zea Mayze more accurately!) – have had a history of grubernment intervention due to excess production ! Ironically – the idiot politicians are putting corn in our transportation gas tanks (ethanol) – whilst ACTUALLY subsidizing EV’s simultaneously.
The political class counts on the FACT that the majority of voters have zero critical thinking ability!! The ‘average’ voter is satisfied with a daily hot shower – perhaps cynically ironic – yet true!!!!
$4.99 just yesterday. That’s $5.08 in CA bucks.
I pay it because I like milk but I don’t like paying it.
And you suck dicks.
When I was a kid back in the 70s, it was semi-robotic. You still had to manually connect to the nipples, but the milking was automatic and it never touched the open air.
We had some great and very informative fieldtrips in daycare and elementary school. Mathis Dairy, GM auto plant, Ford tractor plant, Frito Lay plant, Coca Cola plant, krispy kreme, McDs, Dekalb County cannery, DC experimental farm, DCPD, DC waste disposal, the Atlanta zoo and its’ Civil War Cyclorama, Atlanta Art Museum, Theater of the Arts, and various memorial parks and battlefields. And of course Fernbank Science Center, with it’s observatory, planetarium, natural and science museums, botanical gardens, and one of two civillian electron microscopes in the country at the time. I was really lucky growing up where and when I did. A kid could see and learn a lot.
Everybody who down voted me and believes robots make hamburgers is so stupid that God should just expunge you. Seriously? How stupid can a human being be?
Good luck with your robo-burgers, retards. Not even “Star Wars” is as gay as you lot.
Suck on my huge dick.
Whoever down voted me is not only an idiot but a cock sucker. You suck dicks and love therm,. Cheers, you Chomos.
Robot burger flippers. You’re RETARDED. You’re so stupid you deserve to die.
Cali is gonna “progressive” itself back to the stone age and Gen Zers aren’t going to know what to do then. The very day the new minimum wage took effect, two major pizza chains did away with their delivery service. At $54k per warm body (and have you seen some of them?), the practicality of automation becomes possible to a franchise, but ‘Mom & Pop’ are basically done at that price point.
The elimination of the middle class (owner/operators) has always been on the socialist agenda, but California is leading the leftist charge to streamline the class system down to the HAVE”S and the HAVE NOT’S.
I can’t imagine why it’s become the most deserted state in the nation and why Governor Gavin is offering free healthcare to illegals to entice them there, can you? I guess he figures it’s better to rule in robotic squalor than not rule at all. “Fries are up!”
Well, writing the ordering software should be simple with a three item menu, lol. $20 an hour for unskilled with no work history? I wonder what their teen unemployment rate is? Hope all their businesses close. To bad the federal government will bail them out.
We are NOT going to tip a GD robot. If they try and add a tip to the bill it will not be paid because tips are for humans who for decades have been underpaid by Chain restaurants, thus tips make up the difference for a living wage. Robots have no need of money, and if the proprietor wants more money for his fare then he needs to put the increased prices on the menu. Do not use tipping for robots as a function to gain more revenue as it will be looked at as a joke.
I just laughed when I saw that here with electronic order taking, even though there were cooks in the back making the food. And since when do you tip fast food?
Americans are tricked to believe that earning higher wages will help them live more comfortably…
However; what they don’t realize is… every time minimum wage increases… the cost of living and buying products goes up as well…
Raising minimum wage… only helps to turn America into a 3rd world country…
Wages are relative. I don’t know about now, but in the 00’s fast food workers were starting at $2 or $3 an hour higher than minimum wage around here..
So why don’t states with a fifteen dollar per hour minimum wage fail economically?
Oh, that’s right. Treating peons like persons works out.
As if you have a job, Basement Boy.
Because nobody said they would fail unless net outflow of population is defined as failure. No, what you have is teenagers not able to generate say $35.00 of revenue per hour required to break even on having them in the building and on payroll. So what would you do if you had a 16 year old daughter wanting a first job and not being able to land one?
Quote: “Since 2002, well before the recession, in all but one year Washington ranked among the top ten states with the highest teen unemployment. Washington also has had the nation’s highest minimum wage. A multitude of studies show there is a cause-and-effect relationship between the two.”
Link: https://www.washingtonpolicy.org/publications/detail/washingtons-teen-unemployment-rate-is-10th-highest-in-the-nation-idahos-is-10th-lowest
Yeah, except states with a fifteen dollar minimum wage do better than they used to. Facts speak louder than fiction.
You’re full of shit. And you’re a cheapskate.
And you’re a bitch.
Suck it, fem-boy.
Don’t know which of us you’re responding to Jeff, but it’s because they raise the minimum wage slow enough that the frog doesn’t realize it’s cooking. Raise it enough immediately and the connection will be apparent even to the dumbest economic illiterate. And California IS failing. The only thing keeping their head above the water now is their software and entertainment industries, and borrowing money.
I live in CA so I can attest to the fact that it sucks, but the minimum wage just went from $15.00 per hour to $16.00 per hour on January first, and society hasn’t collapsed. Guys and gals who flip burgers deserve to make a living wage. I’m pretty sure In-N Out Burgers pays its flippers $20.00 bucks per hour starting wage and that place is doing fine. And its burgers are great.
I live in Santa Clara Valley, though, and yes it sucks. There’s a lot of money here but it isn’t in my wallet.
So In-N was already paying 25% above minimum wage, similar to Georgia. We don’t have In-N’s here so I can’t compare burger prices, but I bet the same McDs burger is substantially more expensive there, as is the cost of living. Wages are relative to COL and vice versa.
I’ve known people in Georgia to get on with a big company up North (New York, for example), with a high COL. After working up there a few years and getting some seniority, they transfer to an office or facility down here and live like kings because they don’t cut your pay moving to a place with a lower COL.
Sorry, but a “living wage” is BS.
I don’t know, man. I like you so I don’t want to argue with you. But the CA minimum wage law didn’t cause an apocalypse. It actually made things better,
I don’t want to argue with you, CowboyUp. I like you. I think a high minimum wage works, though.
I’m sorry you don’t have In N Out burgers in Georgia. That place is good. They only have two burgers and fries. A double and a single. And sodas, I guess. And shakes but only two kinds, chocolate and vanilla. That place is super good. A double double is so good it isn’t funny and if you order it with fried onions you’re walking on water. Their burgers are extra greasy.
“I’m sorry, Dave–I’m afraid I can’t allow you to do that…”
These robots are (for now) at least serving up beef and potatoes, soon it will be Archer Daniels Midland bugs.
Bill Gates cant wipe the grin from his face.
Why should he wipe that smile, Roberta? He won’t be restricting HIS lifestyle, much less eating bugs.
I live in California and our Government stinks and our Governor is a total imbecile
Drive by a high school when the kids are being let out and ask yourself who will be willing to pay the worst third of them $54k per year to have them on their team.
The idiots in Sacramento has priced them out of the market.
In California most fast food workers were 30 year old illegal immigrants not teenagers This is why the minimum wage was hike to 20 an hour. The illegal immigrants want this in other industries like tourism in LA. One said I make 19 an hour as a guard at LAX. I deserved 25 an hour.
California is a failed state in denial.
Its illegal immigration that works in the lower skilled industries in California and they support the hikes.
I started working at 14 years old in 1959 as a drug store clerk and soda jerk at the fountain.
For starting pay I made 90 cents per hour for a 20 hour part time work week. Four years later I was making $1.20 per hour.
Over four years, through high school, I learned a lot. I saved enough to go to college at a state school and get B.S. degree.
That was what opportunity was like in America for many youngsters from working class families. And most everyone was generally grateful.
From nine years old to fourteen, I delivered 40 newspapers per day after school, and on weekends. I made one cent per paper delivered, plus, on average, about a 20 cent per week tip from each of the 40 customers.
I though I was a millionaire.
I remember what it was like back in the day. My brother and I would make money by doing yard work, shoveling walks and cars out of the snow, collecting pop bottles and shit like that because we were too young to be paper-boys.
Kids today are pampered and lazy, although my forebears said the same thing about my generation, LOL.
For the restaurant industry, AI refers to Artificial Ingredients.
Bad PR.
Interesting. Recently an Italian deli (gourmet style) and a burger joint I went to had screen ordering – not humans. I saw some humans in these places but you couldn’t talk to them about your order. I found it annoying, impersonal and unsatisfying. People used to go to coffee shops, lunch and dinner restaurants not just for food but for human contact, to smile and ask about the menu or just be neighborly. Not anymore!
In fact illegal immigrants do these jobs in California, So, the hike to 20 an hour. The SEIU plans to hike wages in eh tourist industry to 25 an hour
Union wages are tied to the minimum wage, so they automatically get raises when the minimum wage is hiked. It keeps them even with the resulting inflation.
Reminded me, people don’t put themselves in the shoes of the small businessman. Example, I remember talking to the owner of a local grocery store some decades ago, and some minor issue with some regulation cost him 80 grand, enough to cause one to sell a business.
Working for a company that I started with when it was 3 people, and I had access to the books, was a real education. The tax structure makes it difficult to keep inventory on the shelf, expand, or move into bigger facilities, and employees cost a lot more than their pay.
It also showed me how much California increasing its’ population by 30% without building any new powerplants could hurt our business in Georgia. Western Canada making up California’s shortfall, instead of using their juice to smelt aluminum, drove the price of aluminum through the roof.
Robots will never replace human workers …
… and, yes, that’s a ‘click-bait’ line …
But think about it.
… Our ‘thinkers’ always think about technical advances …
… in the absence of understanding the human system driving technical advances …
When robots making widgets replaced factory workers making widgets … what happened?
… What actually happened is that Chinese factory workers replaced the widget makers in nations that forced business entities to shift to robots …
… because the dam things are complex, expensive, finicky, easily sabotaged, and require a force of complex and highly trained humans to make them run, and keep them running …
I would love to force any fool thinking ‘Luddite’ or hoping for Asimov’s robots … to see the FoxConn factories I’ve seen. Humans will always be cheaper than robots. Especially to do the thousands of jobs YOU did NOT know were necessary to make that silly widget.
Which brings me back …
… Robots will not replace workers doing basic work. What about picking crops? Not even that. If robots are effective on farms, machines exist to do that work too. (You just forgot because you don’t have closets full of grandpa’s Popular Mechanics.) …
BUT … robots will replace humans for specialized tasks …
… like Terminators.
G-d help us all … and save us from socialists.
Yes, anybody who thinks robots will replace human workers is an idiot.
I must disagree with you here Dan. Modern manufacturing requires the speed and repeatability of robots. The way auto body panels lined up (or rather didn’t) before the 80’s and do now is a prime example. So is the consistency of auto welds amd paint jobs. To be competitive these days in manufacturing, especially complex products like automobiles requires robotics.
A skilled human (me) is needed to program, set up, and maintain those robots(CNC machining centers, waterjets, and CNC break presses in my case), but they cheaply and consistently do work that humans and manual processes just can’t, sometimes even with cost prohibitive fixtures and tooling. I and five machining centers can produce what took a hundred manual mills and skilled machinists, when I started being a machinist. And that’s just on the prototype and production side.
My $12K a year 3D modelling, simulation, and photo rendering software allows me replace a slew of engineers, draftsmen, and photographers (required for our catalog). It makes design, product development, and advertising exponentially faster and easier.
I started out as a manual machinist and draftsman, and learned mechanical, and some electrical engineering on the job. Technological developmemts since then have enabled me to do things and be more productive than I ever dreamed at the time. Robots can replace humans for most tasks already, and within a century, probably all. AIs are already designing things, and working on setup and maintenance bots.
Looks like they’ll be going back to lunch pails and brown bags in California. Gen Z’s are going to have to learn how to cook. Of course, with no entry level jobs, you can still get Mom to cook since you’ll be living at home. The real Minimum wage is zero. I heard a smart man say that once. Decades ago. But Democrats aren’t that smart. They prove it daily.
“The real Minimum wage is zero..”
Now that I think of it … that statement is endowed with a lot of truth.
Democrats ruin everything.
Sooner or later the new Luddites will turn up or someone will complain about their burger, smash some robots – and get away with it if they are the correct shade….
I used to go a few times a week to a S.-Calif. Dunkin’, Then early last year they stopped accepting cash. So my visits dropped to once a month. Then, weeks back, where I used to face a human cashier, I now faced a jumbo touch screen and was told by a human that I had to order everything on the touch screen. After repeat attempts I still messed up my own order, so didn’t get what I wanted and doubt I’ll go back.
I wasn’t even alive in 1959 but I did whatever I could for money. I had to do some pretty sketchy stuff before age 13 when I was old enough to be a paperboy. That was the life! I was legal and on top of the world.
It doesn’t take much to make a kid happy.
You’re weird, babe.
I was actually 12 when I got my first job. It sucked but I was glad to get that paycheck. I used to look at that thing and love it.