Won't call in sick or be late to work, And he won't demand a 'living wage'........................
Won't call in sick or be late to work, And he won't demand a 'living wage'........................
That’s what $15/hr will buy you.
Robots need a UNION!
We have process controlled ourselves into mediocrity. Give me a Mom & Pop shop any time.
Will Flippy spit lube oil onto my burger?
LOL. So city councils across America raise minimum wages to $15 per hour and the result isn’t jobs with “living wages.” Its the corporate fast food industry creating cutely-named robots like “Flippy” to replace staff.
Won’t call in sick or be late to work, And he won’t demand a ‘living wage’........................
And the secret sauce is WD40, instead of bodily fluids...
What’s the ROI?
MUI at the experimental MacDonald’s automated restaurants the robots also handle making the patties. Humans are only needed to monitor the robots.
That’s why they need me.
I’m a Blade Runner.
One minute Flippy is turning over a burger, and the next minute he’s looking for his maker and trying to pry out his eyes with a spatula.
I would like to see this Flippy at work once or twice, but after the novelty, I would still prefer my restaurant was one that employed people, not just well oiled machines.
The machines make dining out less social and more of a solitary experience. A glorified vending machine, which can be useful when there is no other choice.
We have a Cali Burge. Simple menu, like In ‘n Out burger, but more pricey.
Bad news for SpongeBob.
“Our hamburgers are untouched by human hands.”
(Our cook is a gorilla.)
I for one welcome our burger flipping, pleasure-bot overlords.
Not the best way to describe a job of preparing food that a customer will be given to eat in a few minutes.
Flippy wants the right to vote, drive a car and he’s tired of living in a tent down by the river.
(or dry wash as rivers are known in SoCal)
Some 40 years ago, when you asked for a Whopper at Burger King, a human put a frozen patty at the front of a conveyor belt and it ran its way slowly through an open grill until it came out the other end where a human added the bun and condiments “your way”. I don’t honestly see this as much progress from that other than the hi-tech feel-goodism.
“Minimum” is $60,000. More like $120,000 by the time installation is completed. Then there is the maintenance at $150/hour or more.
Not to mention, when it breaks down. I can get another burger flipper on the job pronto, but not a broken robot.