The OP thinks raising the minimum wage will be accompanied by a huge drop in demand for services....so business owners can just fire people or cut hours. So easy.
Or...they replace people with robots. They are FREE! And they don't need people to manufacture and maintain them either.
Idiot.
Difference. Robotic manufacturing is skilled labor, and the robots replaced UNskilled labor. A handful of skilled workers make robots that will replace thousands of unskilled workers. A $50,000 robot that replaces 5 minimum wage burger flippers pays for its purchase price in one year.
So the incentive to get rid of workers in fast food is there whether the minimum wage goes up or not.
Of course. Why do you think you pump your own gas, use the self-serve checkout at the grocery store, buy movie tickets from a kiosk or online, etc? When automation is cheaper than human, jobs get replaced.