Posted on 09/13/2017 10:30:50 AM PDT by C19fan
As fast food employees across the U.S. continue to protest for higher wages, a California chain restaurant has decided to hire a new staff member that works for free. The competition for the company’s low-wage workers: a burger-flipping robot named “Flippy.”
CaliBurger has announced they will be installing the high-tech replacement in 50 of their locations around the world. “Flippy,” the robotic kitchen assistant, was created by a California startup company called Miso Robotics and is expected to roll out in 2018.
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So if one of these breaks down, are they insured? Call me crazy for asking such a foolish question.
Not “free”, there are costs to operating and maintaining a robot.
But they don’t add up to $15/hour.
And maybe it will even speak English !!!
Can it do medium rare upon request?
Will the media tell the people that this is because of the increase in the minimum hourly rate? (the gov does not have the right to set this rate.)
You know what will happen?
The left will cry foul and demand that robots be outlawed in restaurants, because they take away jobs from the poor.
Then they will organize boycotts of this and any restaurant that uses them........................
Do they have to be paid the minimum wage and pay for maternity care and vacation?
Limited warrantee maybe,
Probably an option to buy an extended warranty from the manufacturer.
And then theirs the price for a maintenance plan.
Given that there really isn’t much variation in assembling a burger, I’d kinda rather a machine do it.
I recall getting Big Mac that was oddly devoid of lettuce. Turned out the min-wage drone didn’t feel like opening another bag of lettuce right before closing. (Never mind the assorted horror stories of jerks putting spit, oven cleaner, etc in burgers to spite the customer.) I’ll understand if a machine malfunctions, but a sentient being _choosing_ to screw up a simple burger order is disturbing.
Is CaliBurger related somehow to In-n-out? Their menu, logos, fonts, etc., look almost identical.
No. Semi-incinerated burgers are its specialty. Want one? Or three?
I will use it. I always use the self check out line at the grocery store and at WalMart too! F*#@ the unions.
That should be easy. Just have a button you can push, and it flips the burger quicker and takes it off the grill faster than medium or well-done.
As someone noted the real minimum wage is zero.
Can it do medium rare upon request?
And how will it know which burgers to spit in?
Rules of the Road: Do not eat a Big Mac while driving. Lettuce will spill all over everywhere.
Maybe, but the operator instructions will have to be in Spanish.
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