Wendy's Goes Full KIOSK! - Granite Grok

Wendy’s Goes Full KIOSK!

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A number of fast-food providers have hinted at moving to self-service restaurant kiosks, interactive digital devices customers use to place an order.

. The Kiosk would replace the cashier/order-taker at the restaurant, and all of the costs associated with employing them.

Burger chain Wendy’s is no longer hinting. They are making the option available in company stores and to franchisees that want them. Any or all of the 6000 plus locations could have Kiosks installed, starting in the second half of 2016.

The move is in response to mandatory minimum wage hikes in states like California and New York, where Democrat legislators are forcing employers to pay pimply kids with no job skills as much as $15.00/ hour to start.

Other changes at the company include a mobile ordering app, as well as a tagline change from ‘Now That’s better,’ to “Deliciously Different.” The fate of Morgan Smith Goodwin – The Wendy’s TV girl nicknamed ‘Red,’ is still up in the air. The fate of unskilled workers is not. Kiosks will eliminate those jobs entirely, including the taxable wages they would have created.

Democrats demanded green cars and that cost them gas taxes. Their response has been to find ways to fiscally punish the folks who embraced their demand for green-innovation. Don’t be surprised if the next great idea from the left-wing labor-cost management brain-trust (seeking to recover lost revenue) is a Kiosk installation fee and or an additional tax per kiosk transaction.

Customers were always going to be the one’s who paid for this. If innovation manages to keep costs down despite regulatory interference, Democrats will find another way to drive them up.

Look to the “experts” in California or New York to make that leap first.

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