{"id":58780,"date":"2016-05-17T06:00:33","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T11:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58780"},"modified":"2016-05-13T11:14:17","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T16:14:17","slug":"we-gotcher-minimum-wage-hike-right-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58780","title":{"rendered":"We Gotcher Minimum Wage Hike Right Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wendy&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2016\/may\/12\/wendys-expand-self-service-kiosks-amid-wage-hikes\/\">follows McDonalds in moving to automated kiosks<\/a> in its thousand and thousands of restaurants:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After New York City and California mandated $15 minimum-wage laws, fast-food chain Wendy\u2019s reacted, announcing Thursday its plans to make available self-serving kiosks in its 6,000-plus restaurants across the country by year\u2019s end.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to using the technology to cut down on labor costs, Wendy\u2019s President Todd Penegor noted on the company\u2019s quarterly conference call, that some of its franchise locations have been raising prices to offset the minimum-wage increase, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.investors.com\/politics\/policy\/wendys-serves-up-kiosks-as-wages-rise-hits-fast-food-group\/\" target=\"_blank\">according to<\/a> Investor\u2019s Business Daily.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWendy\u2019s Penegor said company-operated stores, only about 10 percent of the total, are seeing wage inflation of 5 percent to 6 percent, driven both by the minimum wage and some by the need to offer a competitive wage \u2018to access good labor,\u2019\u201d IBD reported.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why, it&#8217;s almost as if you&#8217;d think the left would have to know that artificially raising the minimum wage without increases in skill and productivity is going to increase unemployment among low-skill, low-wage workers, thus increasing dependence on government (thus increasing employment for government workers and their unions) or something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wendy&#8217;s follows McDonalds in moving to automated kiosks in its thousand and thousands of restaurants: After New York City and California mandated $15 minimum-wage laws, fast-food chain Wendy\u2019s reacted, announcing Thursday its plans to make available self-serving kiosks in its 6,000-plus restaurants across the country by year\u2019s end. In addition to using the technology to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-racket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58781,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58780\/revisions\/58781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}