Posted on 06/22/2018 6:51:25 AM PDT by mac_truck
Getting down to burger flipping can’t be too costly—which is why other apps were developed sooner. That’s why cheap illegals are keeping the ag industry back too.
Just won’t taste the same with out nose hairs and dandruff flakes.
In December 1965 I worked for AMF, and was transferred to Stamford Conn to work in the AMFARE test lab. It was setup like a fast food kitchen with all the machines there making everything described in the video. I worked graveyard, as they ran 24 hours five days a week. We ran the machines and made the food, and each day we filled the dumpster out back. All of it was thrown away. But the stuff was great. The double cheeseburgers were excellent, with a terrific charbroiled flavor. Had too many milk shakes. The machines worked great. They were designed by the research engineers in Greenwich that were looking for another hit like the bowling machines. On the weekends I rescued and took home bags of fried shrimp and put them in my mother's freezer. AMFARE was doomed from the start. It took hours to clean the machines. Cooked on grease from machines running for endless hours could only be removed using super strong alkali chemicals. It was a nightmare. But the machines were beautiful!
Grilled Krispy Kremes
Into a hot skillet add a generous pat of butter
Add two krispy cremes. Saute till glaze melts , turn and compress. continue to saute until the glaze browns
Enjoy the sugar strings as the donughts are lifted from the skillett
“Kinda like Krispy Kreme’s donut making “robot” “
my first thought too ...
#RobotLivesMatter
” “Roboburger is coming” as government intervention prices live employees out of the market. “
in a moribund (Democrat/Obama) economy, that’s very true.
but it looks like the continuously rising Trump economy may create systemic labor shortages, which would drive the need for automation even more powerfully than a moribund economy with artificial minimum wages ... wages will still go up, which is actually a very good thing because it will be market driven, and hopefully the remaining jobs will be of a higher quality than burger-flipping ...
“Likewise, lots of factory automation has been way ahead of this technologically for decades.”
indeed. i remember seeing a fully automated corn chip factory on one of those food factory shows in which there was basically two active employees on the manufacturing line: one to hook up the hoses from trucks arriving at one end of the plant with raw materials, and one to drive a fork lift to load delivery trucks on the other end with palletized loads of boxed chip bags. and this was an enormous plant, like one or two football fields in size
i’ve frequently wondered when that kind of technology would be miniaturized, unitized, and dropped into various fast food outlets ... i’ve always figured it was just a matter of economics, that is when the cost to build, install, operate and maintain the machine was less than paying a gaggle of food workers to do the same thing ...
It is the human inventor’s fault they forgot to invent the machines to clean the machines.
AI’s won’t be that stupid.
That reminds me of fried Mars Bars, which I understand is a favored snack in Scotland.
HAL beeps
Where’s ROBO COP when you need him?
AMF was much more successful with bowling.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Machine_and_Foundry
Politicians and unions have made it so costly for labor by forced higher wages and benefits, it’s cheaper to buy robots. When they force the $15 an hour for fast food workers, the outcome is less employees, higher prices and businesses closings.
You’re right, the low skilled and teens are hurt the worst.
Yep—which is why cheap illegal labor has kept back capital investment, which has lowered the value and compensation of labor, as well as of the organization and industry.
The winners will be those who use quality ingredients and can produce a good product custom-made on demand.
Untouched by human hands and that's a key factor. No worries about the sanitary practices of low-paid, low-skill workers handling your food.
Imagine walking up to a kiosk and seeing a custom burger cooked right in front of you exactly the way you want it and with the toppings you want.
It's a no brainer business model. With economy of scale, these kind of kiosks will soon be everywhere.
Like a roomba for poop? A poopba!
In Dubai:
https://thenextweb.com/security/2017/05/22/robot-cop-begins-patrolling-streets-dubai-tomorrow-night/
Low skill jobs will be automated. They should have been working towards getting the necessary skills anyway. I mean who wants a crap job flipping burgers anyway? The ones I feel sorry for are the teenagers who would get summer and part-time jobs at fast food places.
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