• ForgetPrimacy@lemmygrad.ml
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    Fountain soda costs a few pennies per gallon, the lost earnings of which would ordinarily be counted as small beans compared to the wages saved by reducing the bodies you need to pay to run your restaurant. The pandemic taught companies though that you don’t need a body for every job, you need only as many as it takes to keep the door unlocked. The single person whipped and frantic doing the jobs of eight people will just have to work harder and maybe next year they’ll get a fifteen cent raise

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      the extra labor to fill and refill dining room drink orders is very temporary. robots or automated dispensers will be pouring the drinks long before 2032.

      they used to have automated dispensers and robotic ‘fry guys’ at some locations… back in the early 1990s