You have heard of the quip, “robots are only one hourly payroll increase away”. My bet is the industry is waiting to see who goes first as they will be cutting jobs and become the target of much criticism. The company has to be large enough to endure for a while. This will open the floodgates as the rest will soon follow and there will be a price war among the fast foods to gain consumer confidence. Job loss will become noise at that point and the industry steps forward. All good. Of course, my cynical side says there will have to a new federal training program paid for by big burger for the displaced workers.
