McDonald’s cooks their products on specific timers and when the buzzers go off you are expected to sear, turn and pull meat.
While the meat is cooking, the buns are prepared with condiments and when the final buzzer goes off the meat is placed on the buns and packaged.
Currently, McDonald’s has machines which dispense the exact amount of fries to fulfill an order.
Other than special orders, there is no reason why a machine can’t automate the process, eliminating most of the staff on grills and fryers.
Heck, the military has automated the charging and loading of munitions, with computers and automation eliminating most of the tasks for delivering a missile or bomb, aboard destroyers and even field artillery.
But the fast food industry can’t automate their processes?
“Computer! Earl Grey Tea...”
Grease and dirt. And machines breakdown. All those little metal and plastic parts will distort and/or wear out and breakdown. Throw a bunch of grease and dirt in the mix and they break down even more. I know there's many people here on FR that think machines are just days away from replacing all the humans in a McD's but that's just not gonna happen. Not in our lifetimes and probably never. That's just a dream. Humans are still cheaper and more efficent and agile than a machine like this. Even at 15 bucks an hour.
Dream on Freepers. ;-)