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>>52974270
The McDonalds near me pays $18 hourly, lets say 40hr/week for 50 weeks, thats $36k for a years salary. A generic McMaster robot arm cost about $45k. Robots don't miss shifts or piss off customers or spit in their food or demand raises. The upfront cost is fairly expensive but low upkeep for something that's not pushing much weight. Yes there will have to be a nonzero amount of people in the store at some point to restock food and do some maintenance, but the robot is still more cost effective long term.

Wages are going up and cost of automation is going down, so eventually the robots will win out. Its really not that complicated.