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Fast-food workers likely will get a raise to $15 an hour, wage board says
Most fast-food workers in New York will receive a wage increase to $15 an hour, but the details still have to be worked out. Members of the state wage board said during their meeting this morning that they all agreed the wage should be raised to at least $15 an hour. "The three members on the board are in agreement that there should be a substantial increase," said Byron Brown, chairman of the wage board and mayor of Buffalo.
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I'm worried that a significant wage increase will just bring in automation to replace the human jobs. I can't imagine it would be all that difficult or expensive to make chicken nuggets and hamburgers with machines.
Some fast food locations already are testing self checkout machines where you go in and order the food on your own and only see a person when they bring you the food.
Especially when 80% of the process from Chicken to Stomach is already done by machines.