Niles mayor and restaurant owner George D. Alpogianis: "If legislators force restaurateurs to increase their payroll for tipped employees to the full minimum wage, it will upend this system with an unaffordable cost. The ripple effects in my restaurant alone would reach an estimated $300,000 a year at just at one of my restaurants."
I could see Zoom cashiers showing up in some IL restaurants, but the IL public unions and pols will likely prevent it from happening. After all, the IL unionized cashiers aren’t making as much as graduate engineers yet, but give it time. With some of these woke socialists, if lower-paid categories of workers don’t earn as much as other workers, it has to be only because of lack of equity or opportunity.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Coming soon to an Illinois restaurant near you.
https://nypost.com/2024/04/09/us-news/nyc-restaurants-use-zoom-cashiers-from-philippines/
I could see Zoom cashiers showing up in some IL restaurants, but the IL public unions and pols will likely prevent it from happening. After all, the IL unionized cashiers aren’t making as much as graduate engineers yet, but give it time. With some of these woke socialists, if lower-paid categories of workers don’t earn as much as other workers, it has to be only because of lack of equity or opportunity.