in expensive cities like NYC getting raises to $15/hr is needed. However, corporations like Mickey D's will use it as more incentive to go to non-human kiosks and dump minimum wage earning people.
I was in Missouri several weeks ago where I encountered that. Stood at the counter, not having noticed the kiosk panels behind me, until a teenager came out and said I could only order off the panel. When I asked about a special I had seen on tv recently, it took him a few minutes to find it, and he was getting noticeably frustrated because I wanted it and refused to default to something else.
Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer: The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous.
- - - Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" 1897