Let's assume the average fast food employee works 20 hours a week and 50 weeks per year.

At a $15/hr wage that's $15,000/yr, or $7,780 more per employee per year.

According to Wikipedia, food service employs about 4.1 million people in food prep and service.

Let's assume they all get raises to $15/hr, from a minimum wage of $7.78/hr.

This works out to the restaurant industry having to shell out an additional ~$31.9 BILLION/YR!

That kind of money will buy you a lot of time and expertise from automation experts who will gladly write programs and develop robotics capable of doing the menial tasks now done by the average worker, and at a long-run cost savings.

There's already precedent for this in the retail world with the advent of automated check out systems, and I would argue the only thing keeping fast food from doing the same are development costs and tradition.

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