Excerpt from this article:
"Wendy’s fast food restaurant chain says it will begin offering self-serve kiosks at its 6,000-plus locations across America, making them available to costumers by the end of 2016. The fast food giant’s decision to move toward automation comes just as 'Fight for $15'–a progressive protest movement, pushing minimum wage hikes–is applying pressure on state governments to raise wages for low-skilled fast food workers."
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Maybe Wendy's could do some market research before rolling out 6,000 Kiosks. Here's what I suggest:
1. In 10 of their Wendy's restaurants, pay their employees $15 an hour, and raise the price of the food accordingly.
2. In 10 other Wendy's restaurants, go with the Kiosks - and raise the prices accordingly (to cover the one time cost of the Kiosk)
And then see which restaurants make the most profit.
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