How much lower are the costs?
NYC Restaurants Are Hiring ‘Zoom Cashiers’ From The Philippines To Lower Costs
Several New York City restaurants are hiring “Zoom cashiers” to lower their operating costs.
Rather than paying someone around $16 an hour to handle customer orders, these restaurants are using virtual cashiers out of Southeast Asia to interact through Zoom video conferencing.
The minimum wage in Philippines, for example, earns a worker there around $186 a month.
‘Foodbeast’ points out that this isn’t fair to the “zoom cashiers” who aren’t making as much as someone would face-to-face. The site also says it prevents locals from jobs and claim that the technology is unreliable.
https://nypost.com/2024/04/09/us-news/nyc-restaurants-use-zoom-cashiers-from-philippines/