Cenk Uygur
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Fast-Food CEO Threatens To Replace Workers With Robots
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March 19, 2016
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6:56Now PlayingThe CEO of Carl’s Jr./Hardees is threatening that if he has to pay a higher minimum wage to his workers, then he will replace them with automated systems. Cenk Uygur, Hannah Cranston, and Grace Baldridge, hosts of The Young Turks discuss.
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“The 100% automated restaurant, Eatsa, has inspired the CEO of Carl's Jr.
The CEO of Carl's Jr. and Hardee's has visited the fully automated restaurant Eatsa — and it's given him some ideas on how to deal with rising minimum wages.
"I want to try it," CEO Andy Puzder told Business Insider of his automated restaurant plans. "We could have a restaurant that's focused on all-natural products and is much like an Eatsa, where you order on a kiosk, you pay with a credit or debit card, your order pops up, and you never see a person."
Puzder's interest in an employee-free restaurant, which he says would be possible only if the company found time as Hardee's works on its northeastern expansion, has been driven by rising minimum wages across the US.
"With government driving up the cost of labor, it's driving down the number of jobs," he says. "You're going to see automation not just in airports and grocery stores, but in restaurants."
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