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Anyone else getting that Astro-turf vibe off mayor Pete? The guy just feels so fake and manufactured. Groomed, if you will. Like Obama. Zero experience, but “checks all the right boxes,” intersectionally speaking.

He is exactly Obama. Raised by Marxists while masquerading as a moderate and daring you not to vote him because he has a protected status. Obama Part II.



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What happens if the $15 minimum wage were passed and McDonald's (and other similar restaurants) just go to self-serve kiosks?

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If? It is already happening - all the ones around here are getting the kiosks as part of regular renovations.

Around here it is 4 flat panel kiosks (2 with panels / Credit Card readers on each side, making 4 screens to order rom) with 1-2 regular registers up front, with only 1 having anyone present who also helps hand out ordered food. The rest of the staff is making food or handing it out.

Same at Panera Bread for the past year. They used to hav 2-3 people taking orders, now it is one and 4-6 kiosks.
Are you in an area that has already mandated large minimum wages?

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What happens if the $15 minimum wage were passed and McDonald's (and other similar restaurants) just go to self-serve kiosks?

flashguy
If? It is already happening - all the ones around here are getting the kiosks as part of regular renovations.

Around here it is 4 flat panel kiosks (2 with panels / Credit Card readers on each side, making 4 screens to order rom) with 1-2 regular registers up front, with only 1 having anyone present who also helps hand out ordered food. The rest of the staff is making food or handing it out.

Same at Panera Bread for the past year. They used to hav 2-3 people taking orders, now it is one and 4-6 kiosks.
Are you in an area that has already mandated large minimum wages?

flashguy


I am not, but all of the McDonalds around here (and we have a whole lot of them) are going to kiosk-only ordering.




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"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."
"I did," said Ford, "it is."
"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them. They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates the government they want."
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I think this just shows how jaded I’ve become, but my first thought was wondering who hired the protesters. Doesn’t really matter if they could plausibly be genuine, I just assumed the outrage was bought and paid for.

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Mc Nasty’s here has kiosks. Using one takes twice as long as ordering at the counter with the opposable thumbed biped.
 
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I've been inside a Mickey D's. Once. Of course that was long ago, and it'll never happen again, unless I'm starving or a grand kid insists. While I relish the victory over those demanding more pay than they're worth, its still not worth the pain.


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What happens if the $15 minimum wage were passed and McDonald's (and other similar restaurants) just go to self-serve kiosks?

flashguy
If? It is already happening - all the ones around here are getting the kiosks as part of regular renovations.

Around here it is 4 flat panel kiosks (2 with panels / Credit Card readers on each side, making 4 screens to order rom) with 1-2 regular registers up front, with only 1 having anyone present who also helps hand out ordered food. The rest of the staff is making food or handing it out.

Same at Panera Bread for the past year. They used to hav 2-3 people taking orders, now it is one and 4-6 kiosks.
Are you in an area that has already mandated large minimum wages?

flashguy


I am not, but all of the McDonalds around here (and we have a whole lot of them) are going to kiosk-only ordering.
OK. I don't know what McDonald's is doing here because I don't go there. When I want a burger I go to Whataburger (across the street from the closest McD). WB makes burgers just the way I like them--meat well done, only yellow mustard and lettuce. (I don't "do" any of the fancy special burgers, and definitely no cheese.)

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It's just a matter of time before the cooking is all automated and someone shows up and loads a hopper with stacks of patties and buns like clay pigeons at the range. At that point, you'll have two "service techs" that respond to errors or perform scheduled maintenance on the food service automation machines.

I can see in the not too distant future where a truck will show up and load a large cassette full of ingredients into a sorting machine and take the empty one back to the warehouse to be cleaned and refilled.

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Mayor Pete needs to learn how to shave. We’re roughly the same age and I’d never appear on a debate stage looking like I last shaved days ago when guys like Sanders, Biden, and Bloomberg show up looking like they just stepped out of a professional barber’s chair.

I’m not commenting on appearances he has no control over, I’m commenting on the fact that he’s looking to represent this country, and seemingly can’t represent himself in a way that commands respect. I don’t expect that my political representatives go clean-shaven, but if they choose not to grow out a facial hair style, that they don’t look like they just dragged themselves out of bed and did their hair. At least do it cleanly. It matters, and people pay attention, especially if you’re going to represent us to other cultures where it matters more.

I know, it’s a nit-pick, and he’s not going to be the nominee so it doesn’t matter. It still irks me.


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He's Pete Buttcake! Nobody tells him when to shave. Not even his man. He's that, uh, manly.
 
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You mean . . .

Nice. Did you do that?



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Shave? Get real. I can hardly imagine a more wholly irrelevant aspect of all of this.

Goodness the kooky things some people choose to give a shit about is maddening sometimes.

Stay focused on what's important.
 
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Nice. Did you do that?
Thank you, yes. A quickie. Proportion and cropping could be tweaked.
 
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Mayor Pete needs to learn how to shave. We’re roughly the same age and I’d never appear on a debate stage looking like I last shaved days ago when guys like Sanders, Biden, and Bloomberg show up looking like they just stepped out of a professional barber’s chair.

I’m not commenting on appearances he has no control over, I’m commenting on the fact that he’s looking to represent this country, and seemingly can’t represent himself in a way that commands respect. I don’t expect that my political representatives go clean-shaven, but if they choose not to grow out a facial hair style, that they don’t look like they just dragged themselves out of bed and did their hair. At least do it cleanly. It matters, and people pay attention, especially if you’re going to represent us to other cultures where it matters more.

I know, it’s a nit-pick, and he’s not going to be the nominee so it doesn’t matter. It still irks me.



Like Nixon when he debated Kennedy?


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Anyone else getting that Astro-turf vibe off mayor Pete? The guy just feels so fake and manufactured. Groomed, if you will. Like Obama. Zero experience, but “checks all the right boxes,” intersectionally speaking.


He's White Obama with a short military desk job background, so he's now a "brave combat vet" to the Dems. Roll Eyes

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Mayor Pete needs to learn how to shave.


This I will stick up for him on.

He's probably like me, who after shaving with the sharpest razor made will look like I've got a 5 o'clock shadow about 2 hours later. Frown


 
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Shave? Get real. I can hardly imagine a more wholly irrelevant aspect of all of this.

Goodness the kooky things some people choose to give a shit about is maddening sometimes.

Stay focused on what's important.


The rest of it goes without saying. His policies suck and he’s an inexperienced, Astro-turfed intersectional Obama 2.0 polished product with zero substance. I thought we were all in agreement about that.

But yeah, the fact that he always looks like he last shaved yesterday is something that stands out to me. Kooky? Whatever. I did admit it was a nit-pick, so you don’t have to jump on my nuts about it.

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This I will stick up for him on.

He's probably like me, who after shaving with the sharpest razor made will look like I've got a 5 o'clock shadow about 2 hours later. Frown


I used to be the same way. You need to join the club. Smile


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Shave? Get real. I can hardly imagine a more wholly irrelevant aspect of all of this.

Goodness the kooky things some people choose to give a shit about is maddening sometimes.

Stay focused on what's important.

You mean making fun of his name isn't important or germane to the subject... Big Grin
 
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Mayor Pete needs to learn how to shave. We’re roughly the same age and I’d never appear on a debate stage looking like I last shaved days ago when guys like Sanders, Biden, and Bloomberg show up looking like they just stepped out of a professional barber’s chair.


That just conjured up the haunting memory of John Edwards and his $400 haircuts. Gawd, what a massive fake he was.
 
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I heard on the radio a "simulcast" of Buttyfudge overlaid over Obummer speaking. Not only is their cadence and inflection almost identical, but many of the same words and phrases!

The guy is coached to the teeth. Lots of platitudes, no ideas.




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