Season 8 in review & What is in store for season 9?

Pay News Updates! WALT https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/11/business/california-minimum-wage-fast-food-kiosks/index.html California has raised the minimum wage for fast food sector workers by $4 to $20, prompting concerns about potential job losses to technology like self-service kiosks. Experts suggest that while some businesses may turn to automation to offset higher labor costs, the trend of automation in the services industry, particularly in restaurants, has been ongoing. Automation in the quick-service restaurant space includes technologies like auto-refill and automated frying machines. Higher wages could incentivize fast food owners to automate, as it could help attract workers in an industry still recovering from pandemic-related employment challenges. The new wage law in California, effective from April 1, applies to restaurant chains with more than 60 nationwide locations and establishes a fast food council to oversee wage adjustments and worker safety standards.Self-service kiosks have become increasingly common in large fast food chains like Panera Bread, McDonald's, Shake Shack, Burger King, and Chick-Fil-A, with benefits including larger and more profitable orders and improved customer experience. While customer preference for autonomous ordering exists, the minimum wage increase in California is expected to accelerate technology adoption in the industry. Some franchise owners, like Harsh Ghai, are rapidly implementing self-service kiosks and AI-powered drive-thru ordering to cope with higher labor costs, aiming for full.Despite efforts to avoid layoffs, the implementation of technology is seen as necessary to maintain profitability amidst rising labor costs and customer resistance to price increases. The California Restaurant Association acknowledges the impact of the minimum wage hike, with some operators already closing or scaling back operations in response.BRIAN https://www.yourerie.com/news/crime/unknown-person-attempted-to-steal-paycheck-of-employee-psp/amp/Be Careful out there ! Season 8 Review/Takeaways WALTGuests - Sarah, NovHospital Cyber Attack100th EpisodeBRIANJodi, Max, Brad, Jeremy, Crazy Eddie Season 9 — Looking forward to working with Gerard Hall, Bart Van der Storm. safe Talk - Should fast food workers make $20 an hour? Or can you make a career in fast food?Drop teaser for next show - Gerard Hall"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy." - Rabindranath Tagore IAP Episode 107 - Season in Review Brian: ​[00:00:00] Welcome to our podcast. It's about payroll. We're your host, Brian Escobar and Walter William Duncan II. Whether you're new to the payroll game or a seasoned veteran, we have something for you. Track 1: Welcome back folks. We are episode 107 cruising right along today. We're just gonna have a light episode We're gonna talk about what we like out of season 8 talk about What's coming up for season nine, but before we get into any of that, how you doing today, sir? How you doing? Well, wd_1_04-14-2024_082623: Man, I am good. Happy Sunday to you April Track 1: likewise, wd_1_04-14-2024_082623: Man, I know I say this all the time on all the shows a majority of the shows man. Time is Flying sir, Track 1: no doubt. Yeah, no doubt. Yes. It's just yeah. wd_1_04-14-2024_082623: up. It's gonna be time to do w 2s [00:01:00] again next year Track 1: Yeah. Yeah No, it goes. Yeah exact. Oh gosh. Yeah, I can't even I don't even know where yeah. Yeah, absolutely right. It'll be yeah I had to hit my CPA up cuz I was like Hey, did you extend my personal stuff too? Cause she told me she extended our stuff, business wise and I was like, wait, I gotta make sure she did it for personal, cause I'm not ready. I'm not ready. Yeah, I wasn't ready. Yeah, thank God she did. Shout out to JC. But yeah, man, it's just going so quickly. I'm just I'm kinda Been panicking about time, and just making, not panicking in a good, at the end of the day, I'm like, okay, it is okay, I'm good, but I'm like, just very concerned about time, just oh my gosh, will work now, is, talking about it with the team this, the fact that this, oh, we could work forever is the fact that you have to balance out because if not, you're going to burn out, so balance out to avoid burnout um, just being mindful of all that stuff and everything else going on, you gotta [00:02:00] still kinda keep time for the fam, the family's feeling it, my little one doesn't let me forget, thank you, shout out to my boss, man, let me bring in, he's gonna let me do a little take your child to work day is coming up, wd_1_04-14-2024_082623: Yes, nice. Track 1: and my little one's always been too young to do it it's just so I haven't done it I haven't taken her in prior years, and I've been home for four years, so it's like, what, take you to work, you stay home from school finally, but even still, she's no, you have an office. I want to go to your office. And she, cause she knows I have a even as a remote, she knew I had an office, we had, I had an office to go to in Miami. And so I had already planned it, but with the job change, I was like, Oh man, what am I going to do now? So wd_1_04-14-2024_082623: Yeah. Track 1: again, shout out to my boss. Let me do it, bring her in and whatnot. And then it was a good opportunity to frame it for folks. If you are trying to do a take your child to work thing there is a formal way to do it like your HR department or some usually HR that helps [00:03:00] organize a an event for it. Um, what you do is you take two or three hours out of the day. You say, okay, you can have your kids, they can come for this event. So bring your kids to workday, da here. Here's the how can I say, organized event for them. It's only a certain age group, right? You shouldn't bring infants in. That's not bring your kid to workday. Like infants aren't gonna experience anything. It should, and I think it was like I don't know when this event that I'm thinking of, and then the rules, and I like the rules, it's eight or six, I guess you could go probably as low as five or six and up I would maybe say six and up, or seven and up and not even like seven to eight, seventeen, because at eighteen, is it, you bringing your adult to work at that point it's a different story. Give them a job, but anyway, I just my point is that I like It should be a organized and thoughtful and planned event. It shouldn't be just everybody bringing their kids to work On this day and having no organization around it because kids can't last the whole day. 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