Posted on 09/11/2014 7:28:31 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
Conveyor Belt Sushi, Japan
A dining concept that lets you pick from a wide range of one of Japan's best-known foods.
NOTE: Click on the referenced link to watch the video.
P.S. This technology will doom the SEIU/$15.00 minimum wage movement.
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Is cooked sushi an option?
Conveyor belt sushi has been around for decades. About 10 years ago, I saw the concept applied to Dim Sum in Yokohama.
I foresee about 5 total employees plus owner at each McDonald’s restaurant.
The employees will be those smart enough and who show enough initiative to learn to maintain and operate the robotics and they’ll make decent money.
Honestly, at 50 years old I might even consider a job at McDonalds if that were to happen.
There are varieties of sushi that are either cooked or smoked. It’s not all raw.
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There’s a Japanese restaurant in Toronto that’s had one of those for at least a decade.
Conveyor belt sushi is available at the Natick Mall in Metrowest Boston.
Can't remember anything else about it.
Looks like I will have to try some cooked or smoked sushi
in the near future. Never had it so it will be a novel experience.
Very interesting video. Thanks for posting it.
Now I know what I’m having for lunch tomorrow.
“The employees will be those smart enough and who show enough initiative to learn to maintain and operate the robotics and they’ll make decent money.”
That was my thought too. Automated restaurants aren’t going to doom the $15.00/hr restaurant wage at all. In fact, wages are likely to be higher than that in those kinds of restaurants. However, the number of workers will be only a tiny fraction of those currently working in manual restaurants, so while the wages won’t be doomed, the jobs themselves are doomed.
Basically, the movement for higher unskilled labor wages will simply accelerate the collapse of unskilled labor jobs.
Go to a decent sushi bar with somebody you know who really knows the menu and try a few things. Several have smoked salmon. Sashimi beef is excellent. Several other possibilities.
I can see 2 man shifts. 1 primarily responsible for the robotics and the other doing the cleaning and helping out as they learn to operate the robotics.
Contrary to popular belief, a college education isn’t really necessary for robotics. I’m a high school drop out who learned to maintain, operate, and program industrial painting robots on the job and I became a foreman in the process. It was 2 less painters and 3 jobs getting done by 1 man.
Actually sushi refers to the rice it has vinegar and sugar added for a certain flavor or at least that is how my wife does it. The raw fish is just one of many ways of serving it.
Tuna sushi and tuna makis (rolls)
Salmon sushi
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