Meet “McCashier” Your $15.00 Per Hour McDonald’s Worker Replacement

Who do Democrats and Progressives hate young people holding jobs? Why do they also dislike allowing minorities to start up the ladder of success? The effort to create a $15 minimum wage will force fast food places and others to use machines to collect the machine, machines to do the cooking, have call centers in Utah take you burger order in Fresno—local kids will not have jobs thanks to government.

Remember when you needed to go to the counter and get your bordering pass for the plane. Now you print it out on your computer or get it from a kiosk. Dependable, no coffee breaks, does not strike and no need for the National Labor Relations Board. Saves money, but kills human jobs. Technology is great—we will be able to end unions with it by getting rid of many of the jobs done by union workers. The union ate your job.

Meet “McCashier” Your $15.00 Per Hour McDonald’s Worker Replacement

ByMike Shedlock, Union Watch, 8/11/14

Editor’s Note: Successful union activism in support of a $15/hour minimum wage will not only reduce the supply of entry level jobs – it will have a disproportionate negative impact on small businesses. Large corporations will invest directly in – or offer their franchisees access to – specialized automation equipment. Small businesses will not have the same access to capital and technology. Stuck paying workers more than they can afford, they will be forced to raise prices and become even less competitive. Yet another example of how unions and ultra large corporations can have overlapping agendas.

Sure. You can make $15 an hour at McDonald’s, at least in Seattle. You just have to perform better than this machine.
But if you are not more cost effective than that machine, then not only do you not make $15, you do not have a job at all.

That machine is the not so distant replacement for cashiers demanding more and more pay.

A Reddit comment says the cashiers at this McDonald’s were replaced by machines.

Comments indicate the store is the company owned McDonald’s Innovation Center at 1253 N Schmidt Rd, Romeoville, IL 60446, United States.

Any readers care to check that out?

Math, Not Counting Benefits

For a location open 24 hours: The cost of human cashiers, not counting benefits, $15/hour * 24 hours * 365 days/year = $131,400
For a location open 6AM to Midnight: $15/hour * 18 hours * 365 = $98,550.

For the machine to be cost effective, all it needs to do is cost less than $100,000 a year to buy and maintain.

By the way, it won’t just be McDonald’s that eliminates cashiers. Expect to see machines like that everywhere. Basic cost-accounting math demands that outcome.