“I was at the National Restaurant Show yesterday and if you look at the robotic devices that are coming into the restaurant industry -- it’s cheaper to buy a $35,000 robotic arm than it is to hire an employee who’s inefficient making $15 an hour bagging French fries -- it’s nonsense and it’s very destructive and it’s inflationary and it’s going to cause a job loss across this country like you’re not going to believe,” said former McDonald’s (You must be registered for see links) USA CEO Ed Rensi during an interview on the FOX Business Network’s Mornings with Maria.
Fast food joints are considering the possibility of replacing human employees with robotic ones. Robots never get sick, tired, or call out of work.
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