The cheap and logical answer to that is to hire a single security guard of some kind. Security guards don't get paid very much, especially ones with jobs as easy and boring as "sit around as a deterrent to homeless people". It really only takes one or two employees to keep a theoretical automated McDonald's running. Maybe have someone there for the dual purpose of anti-homeless patrol and make sure the machines are still running.
The other solution, and the one to be tried first I suspect, is just don't bother caring and see if the customers actually leave or just learn to deal with it. Similar crap doesn't really deter customers from showing up. Good luck finding an employee in Walmart, for instance. And they seem to still be doing fine money wise, even if the service quality suffers greatly.
They already got rid of cashiers and there was almost no backlash, nothing more than boomers grumbling and then forgetting a week later.
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By demanding the police beat the crap out of them and make them go somewhere else
The cheap and logical answer to that is to hire a single security guard of some kind. Security guards don't get paid very much, especially ones with jobs as easy and boring as "sit around as a deterrent to homeless people". It really only takes one or two employees to keep a theoretical automated McDonald's running. Maybe have someone there for the dual purpose of anti-homeless patrol and make sure the machines are still running.
The other solution, and the one to be tried first I suspect, is just don't bother caring and see if the customers actually leave or just learn to deal with it. Similar crap doesn't really deter customers from showing up. Good luck finding an employee in Walmart, for instance. And they seem to still be doing fine money wise, even if the service quality suffers greatly.
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The liberal solution to that is to let the fascists take care of it and try not to think about it too much.
I get what you are saying, I just don't think it's as directly tied to automation specifically as what you have said implies.
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