Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Obama-Donor CEO Of Panera Bread, Who Supports Increase In Minimum Wage, Is Replacing Cashiers With Robots

Obama-Donor CEO Of Panera Bread, Who Supports Increase In Minimum Wage, Is Replacing Cashiers With Robots

May 14, 2014 Freebeacon.com , Minimum Wage 1 Comments
By Washington Free Beacon Staff, May 9, 2014

Panera Bread CEO Rob Shaich, a Democratic donor and minimum wage supporter, recently announced that he will be replacing cashiers with computers.

Shaich, who donated $35,800 to the Obama Victory Fund, said he wanted the minimum wage raised as long as it applied equally to all, according to Tim Carney of theWashington Examiner.

My question: Will Shaich pay $10.10 an hour to the kiosks he plans to install in every Panera in America? Businessweek tells that at the coffee and sandwich shop, you’ll soon be ordering through a touch-screen kiosk. Shaich insists this won’t lead to downsizing: Panera will have fewer cashiers but more employees running the food to customers’ tables. We’ll see.

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