Fast food and Malls have been the staple for teenage part-time employment and now those jobs are fading faster as technology shutters the big shopping complexes are being replaced by the internet and kiosks are asking you “Do you want fries with that” – PB/TK
Could fast-food’s high-tech future hurt jobs? – CBS / Aug 7 2017
Thousands of McDonald’s restaurants are adding a new feature this year: self-serve kiosks.
The new tools are expected to arrive in about 2,500 McDonald’s restaurants by the end of the year. The company plans to have them in most of its 14,000 U.S. restaurants by 2020. Â
McDonald’s says skipping the traditional cashier is part of its experience of the future. At some locations, you can order food through the company’s app and pick it up at the drive-through, or even get table service.
Jonathan Alvarez has only 30 minutes for lunch, so when the McDonald’s near his job added self-order kiosks, he saw them as valuable time-savers.
“It’s superbly faster, it’s almost 50 percent as fast,” he told CBS News.
Continue to cbsnews.com article: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/could-fast-foods-high-tech-future-hurt-jobs/
