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So what?it really is not that complicated. Say a 40 hour employee making $10 per hour cost a store $31,200 a year.
That same employee, at $20 per hour would cost ~$52,000 a year, a delta of $20,000.
Let's say that person and one other can be replaced with a robot(automation device) but it costs $40,000 and $4,000 a year for maintaining the machine. With the employee costs going up, the robot looks a lot more finically viable.
Easy calculations, although you should have added higher wages for overtime over 40hrs, paid holidays, and vacation time
Is also very doubtful that robots costs for production in a restaurant will cost only $40,000
Still, robots are obviously not cost effective, as the fast food industry has made no rush to purchase them, and have indicated to plans to do so