Topic: McDonald’s Is Days From Opening Restaurant Run Entirely By Robots - page 11. (Read 15909 times)

Finally. Maybe now the prices can come down to reality.
3$ for a large fry?

Are they crazy?

Bigmac trio is now pushing 10$

That's nuts.

The Singapore Vertical-Farms that herald an Agricultural Revolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nFQOkzEjxQ


High-tech Dutch trend of 'city farming' grows food faster without sunlight
http://www.mlive.com/business/west-michigan/index.ssf/2015/05/high-tech_dutch_farming_grows.html


PlantLab: Urban Farms 40 Times More Productive than Open Fields
http://weburbanist.com/2015/04/02/plantlab-urban-farms-40-times-more-productive-than-open-fields/



Urban farming is still a dream... But. Imaging McDonald's becoming a farmer. McFarming's everywhere...

I don't think they will be able to completely replace their human workforce with robots. May be they'll think about replacing half of the staff with them. And a normal employee costs the McDonalds around $15 per hour (that comes to around $45,000 per year). If a robot can replace 5 employees, it will save them $225,000.

If McDonalds does implement this on a large scale then prices for these robots will dwindle pretty fast. After some tests with industrial robots like these, that are already used in nagoya, japan, for creating food in the restaurant http://singularityhub.com/2009/08/03/the-robots-are-the-chefs-in-this-japanese-restaurant/ , they will create even more specialized robots and those will be even cheaper then. The salary of an employed person will be back in a couple years.

We can't expect healthy foods in the fast food restaurants. Something that is really cared by businessmen is how they can earn high profit from their business. The robots are expensive, but the employers don't need to pay their salary every month or every week. I guess they will just do maintenance once a year, and the profit from machine is higher than the human employee.

I don't think so. Their prices are more or less reasonable. The only thing is that they should bring more quality and better hygiene to their food. May be they should use more organic food instead of all those processed items. And using robots might be expensive. The cheapest versions can cost as much as a few hundred thousand USD.

I also hope it will bring prices down at macdonaldses in comparision with other fast food restourants. As I said before, i would be eating there every day. The future is here. And we don't need stupid teens at cashiers anymore. =)

You might find a but bolt once in a while but that's okay

maybe they will finally get my fucking order right

...and thus, poor populations will increase dramatically.

and nobody will notice

That movie was so ahead of its time.

The Way You Order at McDonalds Is About to Change Drastically









McDonald’s will give customers the option of using a tablet to build custom burgers as part of a pilot program that will expand to 2,000 branches nationwide, the company revealed Sunday.

The self-service stations, which McDonald’s has billed as “Create Your Taste,” enable customers to choose from a selection of buns, toppings and sauces on tablet-like touchscreens, USA Today reports.



http://time.com/3623893/mcdonalds-tablets-ordering/




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McDonald's hires 7,000 touch-screen cashiers





http://www.cnet.com/news/mcdonalds-hires-7000-touch-screen-cashiers/

Then the riot control robot trucks will take care of them...

What will happen to all the people that want higher minimum wage once fast food goes robot? Who will they protest to give them more money for the entry level work?

This would be great and awful...riots would result, unfortunately.

Billionaire Cartier Owner Sees Wealth Gap Fueling Social Unrest







Johann Rupert, the South African who has made billions peddling Cartier jewelry and Chloe fashion, said tension between the rich and poor is set to escalate as robots and artificial intelligence fuel mass unemployment.

“We cannot have 0.1 percent of 0.1 percent taking all the spoils,” said Rupert, who has a fortune worth $7.5 billion, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. “It’s unfair and it is not sustainable.”

The founder and chairman of Richemont, whose 20 brands also include Vacheron Constantin and Montblanc, said he expects advances in technology to lead to job losses after having read books on the subject recently. Conflicts between social classes will make selling luxury goods more tricky as the rich will want to conceal their wealth, Rupert said in a speech Monday at the Financial Times Business of Luxury Summit in Monaco.

“How is society going to cope with structural unemployment and the envy, hatred and the social warfare?” he said. “We are destroying the middle classes at this stage and it will affect us. It’s unfair. So that’s what keeps me awake at night.”

Rupert, a university dropout whose father made a fortune setting up Rembrandt Tobacco Corp. and selling it off, has in the past made other social critiques. Nicknamed ‘Rupert the Bear’ for his pessimistic views on the economy, the 65-year-old refers to himself as a “reformed prostitute,” having spent a decade as an investment banker. He said in 2008 that the collateral damage from the financial crisis was yet to come.

“We’re in for a huge change in society,” he said Monday. “Get used to it. And be prepared.”


http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-08/billionaire-cartier-owner-sees-wealth-gap-fueling-social-unrest

McChicken please.. hold the shrapnel. 

If an actual government would use them to support their citizens then this might make an unconditional basic income more probable.

As long as the robots dont get the idea to serve us soylent green. 

The future is upon us. We demand free burgers from our hard working robots slaved to our blockchain...

Again bitcoiners are ahead of time and predict the future. Now to think about how to exploit that.