[quote=SD Realtor]Ummm Shoveler as Forbes points out, actually, is that the price of the meal may not move at all.
McDonalds would simply find out a way to keep the overall labor costs the same. They would pay the workers 15 bucks an hour and then reduce the workforce by the same amount through automation.[/quote]
They are going reduce the workforce by automation regardless.
It’s going to become cheaper and cheaper to use more and more sophisticated automation very quickly.