This is a podcast of the 600 word piece, "$20 Minimum Wage Spurs Digital Kiosk Rollout at Burger King", from loop dot tech. Let's listen in.

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A California Burger King franchisee is quickly installing digital kiosks due to the state's new twenty dollar minimum wage for fast food workers. Harsh Ghai, who claims to be the largest Burger King franchisee on the West Coast, says kiosks are a more cost effective solution than reducing staff hours or delaying new restaurant openings.

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Ghai oversees about one hundred and eighty fast food restaurants, including one hundred and forty Burger King locations. Currently, about twenty five percent of his restaurants have kiosks, but he plans to equip the remaining seventy five percent within the next thirty to sixty days. He's also implementing other cost saving measures like cutting employee hours and eliminating overtime pay.

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It's interesting to note that Ghai has had to raise his restaurant prices from an annual increase of two to three percent to a much steeper range of eight to ten percent. But he fears that any more price increases would hurt customer traffic.

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He sees digital kiosks as a key factor in balancing these increased labor costs. Beyond cost savings, these kiosks also offer additional benefits like improved order accuracy and the ability to encourage customers to spend more.

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This move aligns with a national trend in the fast food industry towards digital kiosks, but California's twenty dollar minimum wage has significantly accelerated this adoption process.

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So it seems we might be seeing a lot more kiosks in our fast food future. That's it for today.

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