Jack in the Box CEO: If Wages Rise “It Just Makes Sense” to Replace My Employees With Robots

Jack in the Box CEO: If Wages Rise

Photo: Getty Images Jack in the Box CEO Leonard Comma says that higher minimum wages might result in him replacing staff with robots, Business Insider reported .

“As we see the rising costs of labor, it just makes sense,” Comma told the ICR Conference in Orlando, Florida on Tuesday.

As Grub Street noted , 18 states are seeing minimum wage increases in 2018, including Jack in the Box’s home state of California—where it was raised to $11 as part of a plan to raise it to $15 by 2023. Jack in the Box has experimented with automated checkout kiosks since 2009 […]

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