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06/21/2018 / By Vicki Batts

Starbucks closing 150 stores nationwide, precisely because of the rising minimum wages that its own Left-leaning employees demand

It looks like the days of being king of the coffee game are numbered for one of the most prominent coffee chains in the U.S. Starbucks recently announced that 150 of its stores will be closing up shop. Between the number of stores in liberal cities hiking up their minimum wage and the negative impact […]

01/23/2018 / By David Williams

Rising minimum wage translates to fewer low-level jobs and more robots in the fast food industry

Sometimes the best solution to a problem ends up being the one you’re trying to avoid the most. A classic example of this is now becoming an issue in the fast food industry, where fast food companies may soon be made to choose between keeping their army of paid employees or replacing them entirely with […]

11/17/2017 / By Jayson Veley

Tomorrow’s AI detectives are learning their craft from TV: Binge watching CSI helps them guess the criminal 60% of the time

In the digital age we are currently living in, it’s not uncommon to see human employees working alongside computers and artificial intelligence, or even jobs that are being replaced by machines entirely. Crime scene investigators are certainly no exception to this trend, but while having computers work alongside investigators may seem like something that is […]

07/05/2017 / By JD Heyes

No more human fast-food workers by mid-2020s? Burger-flipping robot replace employees

The collapse of low-skilled labor in America continues unabated, thanks in large part to the advancement of robotics, and with it, a wave of coming unrest like nations have not seen in a long, long time. As reported by CNBC, the fast-food industry, in particular, is poised for dramatic changes, with the introduction of electronic kiosks […]

03/04/2017 / By Robert Jonathan

The wage-earner robot apocalypse arrives: Wendy’s to install 1,000 fast food kiosks to replace humans

In the fight for $15 championed by social justice activists, the minimum wage worker may actually wind up getting pummeled, unfortunately. Fast-food chain Wendy’s has announced that 16 percent of its nationwide locations will install self-service ordering kiosks by the end 2017. This translates to about 1,000 stores which may be able to reduce headcount […]

04/15/2016 / By newstarget

While the ‘Fight For 15’ protests continue to garner attention, it’s nice to remind people of the fast food robot that can produce 360 burgers an hour

A company called Momentum Machines has built a robot that could radically change the fast-food industry and have some line cooks looking for new jobs. (Article by Dylan Love, republished from http://www.businessinsider.com/momentum-machines-burger-robot-2014-8) The company’s robot can “slice toppings like tomatoes and pickles immediately before it places the slice onto your burger, giving you the freshest burger […]

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