Seattle’s Minimum Wage and the Rise of the Robot Waiters
It’s not quite the $26/hour minimum wage congresscritter Barbara Lee (D-CA) has called for, but it beats the $10.10 national rate Obama intends to inflict. Seattle will soon have an astounding $15/hour minimum wage, which effectively saws off the bottom rung of the economic ladder.
Unless progressivism is turned back soon, the rest of the country will follow. Great news for burger flippers, right? Wrong. This story offers a clue at to why:
Tabletop computer screens that take menu orders, accept payments by credit card and let diners play videogames are about to get much more common, changing how waiters and restaurant guests interact.
Chili’s Grill & Bar, one of the largest casual-dining chains in the U.S., … will install tabletop screens in most of its 1,266 U.S. restaurants by early [this] year. … The screens, made by Dallas-based Ziosk LLC, are essentially tablet computers mounted to a sturdy base and loaded with pictures of menu items, as well as a credit-card swipe device and games that can be played for 99 cents at Chili’s. …
Ziosk is one of several companies pitching tabletop devices for restaurants. The devices enable diners to order and pay for their meals, and sometimes flash ads or offer entertainment to diners for a fee.
If Chili’s can take a step toward robot personnel, it ought to be a breeze for McDonalds, where everything tastes like it was excreted by a machine anyway. At least fast food will get a little faster when all you need to do is push a button and swipe a card, and out comes your Big Mac.
Liberals have not been able to prevent businesses from adapting to changing circumstances. The main circumstance anyone trying to run a business in the USSA has to deal with is ever-increasing regulation. Regarding minimum wage, adaptation will come in the form of eliminating any job that it does not make financial sense to pay minimum wage for.
Hiking the wage still higher is a win–win for Democrats. Once again they get to pose as the champions of the poor, while creating more poor, who keep them in power by voting for a living instead of working for a living.
Republicans will of course trot along behind mewling “me too!”
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