I want my Happy Meal

This is what a a $15 minimum wage buys you.  If someone can be trained in less than 2 days to do your job then it doesn't make sense to pay a lot of money to someone to do it.  McDonald's has had the technology to run an entire store with one employee for many years and it's coming into play as the minimum wage increases.  Pay someone to keep the machines loaded and everything is automated right down to electronic payment going directly to the bank.  Another generation or two and society will accept this kind of business.

There is a lot of people making decisions that never had to write a payroll check, manage a business and employees.  Businesses are in business to make money, not hire employees or fund political campaigns, sadly, the more successful you are, the more the latter comes into play.

Fixer, I like the way you operate! I don't use the self checkouts either. If more people started doing that they would open up some registers. 

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It's not all about wages either, most everybody here is like me, I treat people the way I want to be treated until someone causes an issue then it's game on.  But these counter people take abuse, pure abuse from low life's that have nothing better to do.  I've had orders come wrong, I take it back, explain the issue and 99.9% of the time all goes well.  I was sitting with a McDonald's owner one day when some gal came storming up to the counter and slammed a sandwich down and commenced yelling about how that wasn't what she ordered.  She would have gone into orbit if she'd heard what the owner said to me, which was, "You'd think she was at a 5 star restaurant and they messed up her $50 steak."  Part of their training is to deal with people that don't want to be happy, even with a happy meal. LOL

It's hard to yell at a kiosk about your order, especially when youpunch it in yourself and there is a receipt stating as much.

I don't usually go to the fast food joints any more.  Went to Five Guys this past Friday, got the small burger , , , $8.39!  Not goin back there!!

Local Burger King just removed all of their signs and left the building.

I go to the local Meijer for our groceries.  I always use the self checkout.  I don't want expensive food bagged with laundry soap or something like that.  And it appears they no longer train their checkoutters!  By going to self checkout I can bag how I want and take as many bags as I want.  Beats the hell out of those other people doing it.  And we recycle the bags.  They fit the kitchen trash can real nice.