yes. so true.

And customer service has never been better

The computers are more reliable and efficient.

i prefer machines

So they shouldn't complain about being treated unfairly cause they still have a job? You supporting a race to the bottom?

Nathan Jones and that's awesome...McDonald's in the states are starting to use them. The other night I spent 10 minutes in drive through at a Burger King...then they gave me the wrong food..I was outraged...I had to turn around and go inside to straighten the order out. Took away time from my family....etc... It's a shame...outrageous. Organizing a strike this year sometime I am!!

One of the most ignorant comments I’ve seen in a long time obviously based on no experience of ever working and seeing the diversity in the sectors workforce. Shame on you.

SeumiseuTV - 스미스티비 who’s fault do you believe it was?

What do you mean? Do you think I am the enemy for getting a job instead of sitting on benefits?

Whose fault is it you had a job paying very little per hour that you had to work like an animal just to survive? Well done for not going on benefits but at same time unless this job was part of a temporary plan onto something greater then you have no reason to complain.

It did go on to something greater; I only worked there until I was accepted for Uni, however there are many people in my area who got better grades than me, and still end up working in these minimum wage jobs because that is all the area has to offer, Subway, Costa, McDonalds, Burger King, the list goes on, so in some respect it was my fault however the area had nothing better to provide And cheers for the props regarding benefits, I never have and never will claim benefits, there is always a job if you look hard enough haha

Yeah I always recommend everyone to eat at Burger King, from first hand experience I have seen it all thrown away on the dressing table as soon as the product can't be used anymore, whereas I have seen the far opposite working at the competition prior to working at Burger King

Good luck!

More people unemployed in the short term, do you want this?

Rantosaurus it has nothing to do with what I want. The fact is robots can do tht job cheaper so th companies will move to use it.

Adi B Of course it does, if the human costs for automation are too high, legislation will have to be bought in to mitigate the increased number of unemployment, however, we don't know the future job market.

Adi B. Why is this crazy? The government is forced to subsidise workers through benefits, working tax credits, for example. This acts as a subsidy to McDonald's. Why should McDonald's be subsidised for low wages?

They pay good wages in Denmark and Australia (in Fastfood), and the products are hardly more expensive. If they CAN pay too little - they will. And the other countries will trigger automation anyway with their higher wages. The UK can as well give them the good pay as long as it lasts.

Crown9 Macdonald makes millions

Faizol Refaeil doesn’t matter how many billions they make, mc Donald’s jobs are easy to automate.

Crown9 i understand what your saying and I’m trying to say Macdonald should pay their staff a bit higher that’s all they ask for the staff

Faizol Refaeil i think they should make it lower and hire more homeless people instead, but they’re a business, they’re gonna seek profits. Why will they choose to pay staff more over machines that can do a better job?

Crown9 Fine. Universal basic incom for everyone!

Live Free it's morebavoutbifbthebjobbisbwoeth that much...

Live Free don’t complain if a happy meal is £7 to pay the staff.

If you look at the profit books, imagine if McDonald's allocated 30 or more percent of its income to its 1.9 million workers. How much would that be per hour? If McDonald's can stay profitable by raising its prices around 10p a burger or 5p for fries (with a provision that every worker has a living wage, childcare, better health insurance, etc), wouldn't that make the workers happier? Sure, it may cut some of the profits away from its shareholders, but, the value on money would be significantly greater, knowing that McDonald's does treat its workers well. The underlying issue in this is pure unadulterated greed.

The whole point of the free market is maximization of profit. McDonalds is not a charity. Why can McDonalds operate so successfully on minimum wage for decades? Ultimately because people will be willing to work at those market wage rates because they have little or no skills or are desperate in need for temporary work quick and easy. McDonalds' job is to maximize value for its many shareholders who are pension fund retirees all around the West relying on that uptick in stock value to boost their retirement savings. The question rather is why do you think people with little or no skill or in need of immediate temp work deserve to be paid a princely sum of 10 pound an hour for a job of little or no value to the wider economy? Automation electronic kiosks are rapidly reducing the quantity needed of staff flipping burgers. You think an African farmer or labourer earning less than a dollar a day 's labour is so far less valuable than McDonalds to merit a McDonalds worker out earning them ten fold in one hour? The solution is education, training and personal responsibility for Westerners to make the right life decisions instead of relying on a State to bail them out when they fail in the market. Billions of Africans would gladly take those McDonalds jobs at 6 pound an hour but you think white poor folk are worth more than them.

way of mc donald's lot money but do care about people who them work just peanut's

Invesigator liar

@sender gmail like I said *Serves you right* lol

over population meets automation ? The future is grim truly …

See McDonalds in Germany in Denmark, Australia - they can as well pay good wages UNTIL they automate.

Automation is our friend, it is time to get the reduced workweek (with full pay) and the employees / productive people (incl. smaller biz) taking back the power over the economy (and the knowledge !!) In the U.S. the 40 hour workweek came in 1940 !! (with the war looming) - for an industryjob that meant a family could live on it. in Europe 40 hours 5 days came in the 1950s. We had quite an improvement of average wages adjusted for inflation and productivity. WAGES: plus 97 % in the U.S. 1947 - 1970 so almost doubled, productivity rosy by 112 % in that time. So a big chunk until the 1970s was given in form of higher wages = higher purchasing power. (so the workers = consumers could keep up with buying the output). And the 15 % over 23 years of the large U.S. economy was for a small number of entrepreneurs and shareholders - so they were doing well. From the 1970s - 2013 it was some more + 69 % producitivity and ONLY + 8 (or 9) % in average wages (adjusted for inflation). So there a huge gap opened (that explains consumer debt in the U.S., in the 70s they got the credit card). After 1970 the continued automation, computer, women in the workforce, migration should not have been used to undermine the workers - the increases should have been given in more free time (same ! wage - and shorter worktime). Debt and Interest Free Money (Dr. Richard Werner) could take care of social housing. So people could be living comfortably and with stability. And only work 30 or 25 hours per week with a SUFFICIENT WAGE to live off. That would mean full employment with a work week that fits the 21st century. do not belive the current low unemployment numbers - they are manipulated. They play that game in the U.S. too (people that have given up searching, do not count, underemployed people count as as "employed" - like having only 20 or 28 hours when one would need at least 40 to make a living. As long as they can impose zero hour contracts and wages are not rising - there is no REAL low unemployment. Now if more automation can further reduce that to let's the 20 hour workweek - bring it on. The question is WHO benefits the most from gains in productivity. Since the 70s / 80s it was the upper 10 - 20 % - and the 0,001 % the most. There needed of course be a transfer of wealth. Industrial production CAN automate more (and pay better wages or offer shorter worktime) than let's say in restaurants, healthcare (because they need more human work). From 1980 on neoliberalism undercut the negotiating power of workers, stagnant wages could not keep up with ever growing output (private debt rose). (The oil crises in the 1970s were quite disruptive, then the upper class could hit back). And instead of social housing - those who did have some capital (or inherited houses or money) were in a good position to profit from becoming a landlord. Housing became an investment niche, the governments stopped investing to level the playing field. Automation is the NEXT big productivity win. That is a GOOD thing. But we must stop allowing neoliberalism and globalization (putting the workforce of poor against that of wealthy countries ) to undermine the livelihood of the masses. The problem is not that Western companies produce in China - they have 1,3 bn people. But they produce instead and not EXTRA. China exports so much because they MUST. Even though wages have improved a lot - they still cannot afford enough (Consumerism, and what we produce and sustainability is another issue.) But if / what we produce that we must also consume, and that needs disposable income = wages, or Universal Income etc.) The tariffs agreed under "free" "trade" deals make sure Western companies CAN outsource production, can produce elsewhere and pollute and pay so little that the poor workers cannot jumpstart their domestic consumption. And then they CAN export to the wealthier countries w/o PROHIBITIVE tariffs - the stuff they could not sell to the underpaid workers. That is what the free trade deals between unequal !! economies are really for. (A deal - or reduced tariffs between Canada, UK, Germany, Japan etc. should work, they play in the same league). The Economic Miracle - post WW2 until 1970s * Only somewhat free markets, a lot of PROTECTIONISM going on. The "free market" is overrated. * the boom lasted longer on the continent. In Germany the good times lasted until the 1990s. In the UK the troubles started in the 70s. In early 1980s Thatcher and Reagan started to ruin it for the middleclass. Wages rising in lockstep with productivity, purchasing power of average wages doubled in the U.S. (1947 - 1970) and trippled in France. High !! taxes for the wealthy and profitable biz (and they were paid, only investments into the company could prevent taxation).

What a cunty comment

R Hall - It's the truth. Would you rather it be sugar coated so as not to offend your sensibilities?

Maguire Fire l fake news

Assuming chances are equal to everyone. What a bellend

Lot of the comments here shows how uneducated some people are. Not talking about Tom's comment.

The whole north is poor no investment there

Doug D are you a McDonald’s worker?

Adi B Right bc disagreeing with somebody makes you “uneducated”. I disagree with Tom bc I know that if you want to get anywhere u need a college degree, which u have to pay a lot of money from and if you don’t come from money you have to work at service jobs like mcds full time. It’s counter effective to not raise the wage to a reasonable 12 pound

the Potwasher thanks mate

You are a bellend

MrP86 irrelevant, the truth is the truth whether you can handle it or not sunshine

Daniel Bostock but truth has nothing with you being a knob head, your opinions are laughable and not in a good way

greathey1234 me being a knowhead is part and parcel of life I'm a afraid. Whinging McDonald's workers is another part of life. If you're not happy in your job get a different one or start your own business, self entitled little children