Nice Squirrel
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My experience of management has been that they have a few primary duties in a restaurant such as McDonald's.
They manage scheduling (not a concern if there are no other employees), they manage payroll (also not a concern if you have no employees), they do accounting for the tills (not a concern if you have no employees, and depending on the restaraunt, they whip the employees as legally as they are allowed (not a concern if you have no employees). In addition, they do ordering of supplies, which can be accomplished using algorithms, and appeasement of customers.
Every duty here is fillable by computers or obsolete with no employees, and some are unnecessary anyway. Most of the new duties come down to having a single skilled employee or maybe two at any given time seeing to running and maintaining the machines, and occasionally cleaning the store. No whipping or scheduling is necessary, save that which can be done by a computer, and the jobs are much more professional and technical, and well worth 30/hr. Overall it still comes down to less than the 8 employees of a normal store making 10-12 hr + management's 15-20 times two managers during busy hours and the single employee necessary for nighttime operations vs the 2+manager.
So no, managers don't bring much to the table here.
That is a scheme of those with the real control, investors.
But it is a way of depriving people of work simply to make a tiny few investors money.
Better to have humans cooking and serving.
And owning.
And managing themselves.
That's how you have an economy.
The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing Shareholder Value
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevede...e-the-dumbest-idea-in-the-world/#6731eaac2224