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Yeah - That's something like double the average income in Nicaragua ($650/month vs. $340 average and $230 minimum wage). That's a pretty decent local wage and w

Yeah - That's something like double the average income in Nicaragua ($650/month vs. $340 average and $230 minimum wage). That's a pretty decent local wage and will help drive additional money into the local economy in Nicaragua. There's outrage around taking jobs from locals in Toronto, but you could do that with fully automated ordering as well (I've run into this in multiple fast food settings in recent times!).

failedengineer 4y ago
I find the smartphone app menu model vastly superior to the others. I can take 10 minutes to get an order sorted out (ordering with a family takes far longer than a solo order), and I don't slow down the line of people in onesies-and-twosies who already know exactly what they want. From my perspective, screen-based ordering from multiple kiosks with one or two cashiers is the only way forward, and although from a labour perspective it sucks for locals, it's almost definite that as the number of cashiers required goes down to below one per store, there will be a move to remote models with centralized resources (cashiers assigned to multiple stores) basically acting as intermediaries for the kiosks. It's not even a wage or working conditions issue, it's a labour requirement issue.
- Mountain_Skies 4y ago
  The phone app model is also better from a public health perspective. Having hundreds of people use the same touchscreen kiosk is a vector for spreading infection, especially since it is used right before eating.
UncleEntity 4y ago
> There's outrage around taking jobs from locals in Toronto… Assuming they can even find someone to fill the position. I know from traveling around the states there is a significant problem in getting people to work in restaurants as they can just go down the street and get an entry level ‘career’.
- aperson_hello 4y ago
  Pay them $50/hour and you'll have a line of applicants. Pay them $10 and you'll get crickets. Somewhere in between, you'll get some applicants, but not hundreds. That's what you need to pay them if you want to fill the position.

failedengineer 4y ago

I find the smartphone app menu model vastly superior to the others. I can take 10 minutes to get an order sorted out (ordering with a family takes far longer than a solo order), and I don't slow down the line of people in onesies-and-twosies who already know exactly what they want. From my perspective, screen-based ordering from multiple kiosks with one or two cashiers is the only way forward, and although from a labour perspective it sucks for locals, it's almost definite that as the number of cashiers required goes down to below one per store, there will be a move to remote models with centralized resources (cashiers assigned to multiple stores) basically acting as intermediaries for the kiosks. It's not even a wage or working conditions issue, it's a labour requirement issue.

Mountain_Skies 4y ago
The phone app model is also better from a public health perspective. Having hundreds of people use the same touchscreen kiosk is a vector for spreading infection, especially since it is used right before eating.

UncleEntity 4y ago

> There's outrage around taking jobs from locals in Toronto… Assuming they can even find someone to fill the position. I know from traveling around the states there is a significant problem in getting people to work in restaurants as they can just go down the street and get an entry level ‘career’.

aperson_hello 4y ago
Pay them $50/hour and you'll have a line of applicants. Pay them $10 and you'll get crickets. Somewhere in between, you'll get some applicants, but not hundreds. That's what you need to pay them if you want to fill the position.