With the ever increasing cost of everything, one of the biggest items where cost has gone out of control is food. There has been  really bad weather globally that has affected the actual amount of product that we as Americans are receiving from global producers, increasing the cost of all food items based on demand. In so also increasing the natural all around cost of basic life necessities. Food being probably the most basic of necessities for everyone means that costs sky rocket in every other industry, especially the industries and businesses that get to create their own costs.

One thing that needs to be understood is that no matter what you hear or think, cooking is one of the worst paid jobs in the working world. With these ever increasing costs going up not only is the industry losing competent workers but the workers that the industry does have are slowly losing any bit of professionalism left in them because they are struggling so much more than they already were. With the industry being as vast as it is this is becoming a bigger problem than most people really understand. With the way things are now, it can be presumed that the majority of your fast food dining facilities and casual dining facilities are investigating different ways of eliminating as many of the basic level jobs as possible.

A friend used to work at Chili’s restaurant and told me that they started using a impinger machine for all their basic cooking needs when it comes to proteins. Essentially the machine is like a programmable broiler where you set in the program that you need for cooking a item and it does all the work for them. I went there today and there was a tablet on all of the tables were you can order dessert food and drinks thru the tablet and they will run it out to you. When you go to fast food joints in Japan, they have kiosks where you put your order in instead of having a cashier, requiring less labor costs and less employee errors. While in the business sense it is ideal, it is getting rid of basic jobs.

No matter what it is happening, in all the WaWa’s they use these ordering consoles but since it is a newer company in most areas we are not affected because the increase in these locations already increases jobs locally.

This is the way of the future. Honestly even as a cook I completely understand and accept the future changes. This will throw the industry upside down and I’m not sure if it will be a good or bad flip. If you think of how many people are employed with these server and cooked based jobs then it can be assumed that there is going to be a lot of unemployed people in the near future. As Americans are we worried about this future job loss or are we accepting of this change?