Wimpy is pleased.
Posted on 12/11/2013 2:31:57 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Momentum Machines robot enables a restaurant can offer gourmet quality burgers at fast food prices.
It does everything employees can do except better:
* it slices toppings like tomatoes and pickles immediately before it places the slice onto your burger, giving you the freshest burger possible.
* their next revision will offer custom meat grinds for every single customer. Want a patty with 1/3 pork and 2/3 bison ground to order? No problem.
* Also, our next revision will use gourmet cooking techniques never before used in a fast food restaurant, giving the patty the perfect char but keeping in all the juices.
* it’s more consistent, more sanitary, and can produce ~360 hamburgers per hour.
The labor savings allow a restaurant to spend approximately twice as much on high quality ingredients and the gourmet cooking techniques make the ingredients taste that much better.
They will launch the first restaurant chain that profitably sells gourmet hamburgers at fast food prices.
Their current device can pay for itself in less than one year, making equipment sales a second path for Momentum Machines.
In New York City, about 100 protesters blew whistles and beat drums as they marched into a McDonald's chanting "We can't survive on $7.25."
And in Detroit, more than 100 workers picketed outside two McDonald's restaurants, singing "Hey hey, ho ho, $7.40 has got to go!"
One-day labor walkouts were planned at fast-food restaurants in 100 cities Thursday, with protests in scores more cities and towns across the nation.
The machine takes up 24 square feet but replaces all of the human cooks and kitchen. The restaurant can be smaller and make more revenue per square foot. Most short order restaurants need to pay $135,000 per year for the cooking staff. The robot replaces the people, the kitchen and uses less space.
The Robotic restaurant was described in detail by Marshall Brain in his fictional story Manna.
and have even less people that can buy anything. Another business option to get rid of workers.
When your labor is too expensive, you can and will be replaced by a machine.
I’d pay $15.00 an hour fo dat.. Yu betcha.. :)
Does it mop the floor and clean the toilets too?
And if you’re a cop it will automatically spit in your food!
workers my toe, those were professional protesters
Do robots demand $15 an hour?
Note to burger flippers - you are replaceable.
WHY DON’T WE HAVE ROBOTS THAT CAN DO THE JOB OF ILLEGAL ALIEN FARM WORKERS?
They don’t have to mop the floors. The floors will stay clean because they don’t walk around spilling and dropping things.
Are managers getting the boot as well ? There is a robot sushi chain in Japan and presumably fewer white collar guys observe the action around video monitors at headquarters. Sounds even more boring than managing machines.
Fifty years ago I was hearing about the huge battle between the unions and “automation” like it was an evil genius or something.
And, as we all know, there are those McDonald’s you’ll go back to, and those you won’t, if you get my drift.
Problem is, each restaurant will have to buy two... because machines go down, often.
A machine won’t drop my patty on the floor or sneeze on it.
Get an industrial/commercial Roomba, and install those self-cleaning toilets "stalls".
Now that I think about it, Alex Haley's "Hotel", the book that is, has a staccato passage by a hotel chain executive on what he's going to do to the private hotel on the block.
He mentions redoing the floors in the rooms to automatically vacuum from underneath carpeting, reducing the labor to clean the rooms...
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