[rooster8]

If they raised the minimum wage 10% (not double, let's be realistic), it would raise McDonalds' incentive to eliminate a small percentage of staff.

Look at how supermarkets now have self-checkout. 4 self-checkout stations going with one employee monitoring, and customers don't mind using them. In fact many customers prefer them because they help them get out of the store more quickly. There's no reason to think that McDonalds won't eventually try to eliminate some of the staff that takes orders. It's just a question of when they'll be incentivized enough to try it.

[XorNot]

B does not follow from A. Supermarkets did self checkout without any appreciable minimum wage pressures in the US. There is no evidence they won't do them, and no appreciable reason to think there's a floor on the price they can be implemented.

Which leaves us with a minimum wage in many areas which does not actually allow someone to survive, and a growing population who will end up on welfare anyway regardless (who usually are on welfare anyway because oh look Walmart's HR practices).

[timpark]

McDonald's is already working on self-serve options.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/business/mcdonald-s-canada-introducing...