Some fast-food restaurants in the US are paying workers in Asia and Africa to take customers' orders via video call

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• Some NY restaurants are hiring workers in Asia and Ghana to take diners' orders via video call.
• The founder of Happy Cashier, the company facilitating this, says these workers are used to the "graveyard timezone."
• Labor is much cheaper in these countries. Happy Cashier pays its Filipino workers $3 an hour, the NYT reported.

Rather than finding workers locally, some fast-food restaurants in the US are paying cashiers on different continents to take orders via video call.