Gitzo Loc: Indiana

Meet "McCashier" Your $15.00 Per Hour McDonald's Worker Replacement


Article by / Mike Shedlock | Aug 08, 2014




Sure. You can make $15 an hour at McDonald's, at least in Seattle. You just have to perform better than this machine.

But if you are not more cost effective that that machine, then not only do you not make $15, you do not have a job at all.

That machine is the not so distant replacement for cashiers demanding more and more pay.

A Reddit comment says the cashiers at this McDonald's were replaced by machines.

Comments indicate the store is the company owned McDonald's Innovation Center at 1253 N Schmidt Rd, Romeoville, IL 60446, United States.

Any readers care to check that out?

Math, Not Counting Benefits

For a location open 24 hours: The cost of human cashiers, not counting benefits, $15/hour * 24 hours * 365 days/year = $131,400
For a location open 6AM to Midnight: $15/hour * 18 hours * 365 = $98,550.

For the machine to be cost effective, all it needs to do is cost less than $100,000 a year to buy and maintain.

By the way, it won't just be McDonald's that eliminates cashiers. Expect to see machines like that everywhere. Basic cost-accounting math demands that outcome.


Comments;

This thing might turn out to be a big improvement over some of their 2-legged cashiers. (Now....if they can just get a machine that can flip burgers! )


What this country REALLY needs, is a company that can come up with a machine that can replace those dumb-ass Seattle "city commissioners" who jacked the minimum wage up to $15 / hr.

Meet McDonald's New "Cashier"

nakkh Loc: San Mateo, Ca

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2014/aug/08/facebook-posts/1978-someone-minimum-wage-could-earn-enough-summer/


You don't understand history.

jkoar Loc: The Gunks, NY

Please elaborate. What does the ability to pay for college by working at minimum wage during the summer have to do with automated cashiers? I'm sure you have a very good point to make ... I just can't tease it out from your glib comment. :)

Bangee5 Loc: Louisiana

The problem is, as history will show, they priced themselves out of a job thinking that the world, or at least the U.S. Government, owes them something. In the end it will hurt us all and them too.

I worked as a truck driver at a Plastics manufacturing company. They made plastic gallon milk/water bottles. The price of the plastic remain the same but to give the drivers a raise, they had to raise the price of the finish product to the customer who in turn raised the price of milk to their customers who was also me.

Frank T Loc: New York, NY

Ah yes, there are no limits to corporate greed.
Do you recall back in the 80's the banks wanted to cut back on their Tellers so they installed ATM's to reduce labor costs?
Then here we are today when they charge you $3.50 to use the ATM that was installed to reduce labor costs.

I will admit that a $15 an hour minimum wage was a bridge too far and will ultimately cause dissension for those who were making $15 an hour for other jobs which now; at least according to logic should be given a raise.

This, in the end is simply another sample of a broken system.

Shutterbugsailer Loc: Staten Island NY (AKA Cincinnati by the Sea)

But I bet the raise in your wages more than offset the increase in mild prices for you and your family

Shutterbugsailer Loc: Staten Island NY (AKA Cincinnati by the Sea)

Of maybe they should have split the difference and raised the minimum wage to $10.00 per hour

NeilL Loc: British-born Canadian

If machines like this replace a huge chunk of the workforce, this would create a tremendous unemployment problem. Unemployed people cannot afford to buy hamburgers. How is McD going to pay for those machines?

bull drink water Loc: pontiac mi.

hell, they are replacing workers who are making lower wages now. the better they make the machines , the longer they last and the more money they make and save.they may loose the human element but, they weigh it against profits.

BigWahoo Loc: Kentucky

Grocery stores, Walmart, etc. have had self checkout machines for years.

Frank T Loc: New York, NY

You're right about that. Perhaps the customer should get a discount for using self checkout? Seems fair to me.

Bangee5 Loc: Louisiana

The point was, our raise caused in increase in the price of milk. It caused in increase in other products as well. Think what the price of milk would have cost if we got a raise to get us up to $15.00 an hour from $8.45.

The raise we got were just a few cent and was worked out with the dairies before hand.

Bangee5 Loc: Louisiana

The manufacture of the machines brings more jobs. An added bonus.

BigBear Loc: Northern CT

As the price of fuel goes up, it causes the price increase on everything you buy. Now add that increase to your burgers plus any increase caused by wages and utilities etc., where will it end considering most people aren't getting raises ??

Gitzo Loc: Indiana

Another crock of crap from the "all knowing" master of the obnoxious, in-your-face-look at me avatar, Frank the Skank!

#1. "Ah yes, there are no limits to corporate greed".

So who said anything about "corporate greed" except you, skank?

#2. "Do you recall back in the 80's the banks wanted to cut back on their Tellers so they installed ATM's to reduce labor costs?

I recall it vaguely, but so what? In your libertardian way of thinking, it's "evil" for a business to want to reduce their costs in order to benefit their shareholders? Not to mention, when banks started using ATMs, they had a lot more on their minds than merely reducing labor costs, but of course a libturd would never comprehend that.

#3. "Then here we are today when they charge you $3.50 to use the ATM that was installed to reduce labor costs.

Really? It looks to me like you are as bad at picking out a bank as you are at picking out an avatar; I have no idea what your bank charges you to use their ATM, but my bank doesn't charge me anything, as in, "nada", zilch", "zero"! Perhaps your bank noticed your obnoxious, "in-your-face" avatar and concluded that, obviously this guy is a blithering idiot, so we'll just charge him $3.50 to use the ATM and he will be too stupid to know the difference!

#4. "I will admit that a $15 an hour minimum wage was a bridge too far and will ultimately cause dissension for those who were making $15 an hour for other jobs"

That's kinda like saying, "Now that I think about it, I realize that this was all a crock of crap to start out with, but now that I've already made a fool of myself, I'll go home and get the egg off my face!"

To sum it all up, Dr. Milton Friedman said it best when he patiently "explained" that: "People tend to get paid in direct proportion to the difficulty of replacing them"

That's pretty easy to understand when one compares the incomes of burger flippers to that of brain surgeons.