Robot hamburger factory makes 360 Gourmet Burgers every hour...

Next Big Future Blog ^ | December 5, 2013 | Brian Wang

[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.

[nascarnation]

In some respects, Caliph Baraq is a robot controlled by ValJ and her Chicago felon cronies.

[Jeff Chandler]

My mother always bought fairly thin t-bone steaks and my father would grill them over charcoal, turning them often, standing by with a sprayer to keep down the flare-ups. They came out better than any steak I've ever had since and I've never been able to duplicate his method. So I learned my method from here: http://amazingribs.com/tips_and_technique/2-zone_indirect_cooking.html.

The real game changer for me was buying a good digital thermometer.

[donmeaker]

There was a man from my home town,
His name was Don Derbeck.
He sold a lot of sausages and sauerkraut by heck.
He makes the finest sausages that you have ever seen.
Because he had invented a sausage-link machine.

Chorus:
Oh, Mister Don Derbeck,
How could you be so mean?
I told you you’d be sorry
For inventing that machine.
All the neighbors’ cats and dogs
Will never more be seen,
They’ve all been ground to sausages
In Don Derbeck’s machine.

One day a little neighbor boy came walking in the store.
He bought a pound of sausages and laid them on the floor.
The boy began to whistle and he whistled up a tune.
And all the little sausages followed him ‘round the room.
- Chorus

One day the meat inspector came a-knocking at the door,
He said, “I’ve come to check your shop, so give me money more!”
Donnie got real angry, and pushed him in the meat.
He fired up the old machine and now there’s more to eat.
- Chorus

One day there was a shortage, there was no meat to grind.
So Donnie called the city pound to see what he could find.
They said, “We’re out of business, we keep the strays no more.”
“But we’ll refer all future finds directly to your store.”
- Chorus

One day the school’s head cook, he had a brilliant thought.
He’d spend the cash in Donnie’s store for meat that he had sought.
“Seven pounds of hot DOGS,” the recipe did read.
The irony was that the taste was fabulous, indeed!
- Chorus

Have you ever wondered, when you go to camp.
The food is good and plentiful and never gives a cramp.
But early in the morning you’ll see the trucker go,
And lettered on the driver’s door is “Don Derbeck & CO.”
- Chorus

One day the machine got busted. The blamed thing wouldn’t go.
So Don Derbeck, he climbed inside to see what made it so.
His wife, she had a nightmare, and walking in her sleep,
She gave the crank a heck of a yank and Don Derbeck was meat.
- Chorus

She woke to see him leaving, ground up by the machine.
But being oh so practical, she added spice and greens.
She sold the tasty sausage, then boarded up the scene.
And that’s the last we ever heard of Don Derbeck’s machine!
- Chorus

[Blood of Tyrants]

I make automated machines.

[Blood of Tyrants]

I make automated machines;^)

[Black Agnes]

AI will render your job obsolete within a generation.

[Blood of Tyrants]

LOL, it could! But who would make the machines that build the machines?

[cynwoody]

WHY DON’T WE HAVE ROBOTS THAT CAN DO THE JOB OF ILLEGAL ALIEN FARM WORKERS?

It's being worked on ...

At present, the machine costs $50k and takes eight seconds to pick a ripe berry, which works out to what? about 24 pounds per hour? It takes a Mexican 15 minutes to pick a "flat" (12 pounds of strawberries). At $1.50 per flat, the Mexican makes $6/hr. So, the robot only picks half as many berries per hour. But on the other hand, it works all night.

Of course, technology is made to be improved. What if the machine only took one a couple of seconds per berry and only cost $5k?

[Black Agnes]

Make no mistake. The elites plan to obsolete all of us. Their stated goal of 100m people worldwide isn’t hypothetical. They just haven’t developed enough tech to do without the other ~6B+ of us just yet.

They’re working on it though.

[JoeProBono]

[MV=PY]

Yep! I use instrumentation everywhere. Probes and an infrared gun. Digit scales. My kitchen is a lab where I get to eat the results of experiments. ;-)

Game changer 1 for me:

The Virtual Weber Bullet. I've done hundreds of smokes.

Game changer 2:

Modernist Cuisine at Home - Nathan Myhrvold. I'm a newbie.

[Jeff Chandler]

That Weber smoker looks interesting. Maybe Santa will bring me one. I know he's bringing me a second thermometer, the kind with the four foot cable.

Here's a technique I've been thinking of trying. It's very clever. Slow cook in the oven, then crank the oven while the meat is resting, then oven sear:

How To Cook A Perfect Prime Rib

[MV=PY]

Thanks! I'll try that.

The weber is a blast. If you get one you should check these out:

BBQ Guru

[Calvin Locke]

Don Derbeck

Interesting. Bookmarked for later.

[BunnySlippers]

Repair the machine, program the machine ...

[Captainpaintball]

You are correct.

[2ndDivisionVet]

The other day I was watching a television show and they were talking about a Denver steak that comes from a different part of the cow. Ever heard of that?

[OldNewYork]

Now all the leftists have to do is figure out how to unionize robots to strike for $15 per hour.

[Jeff Chandler]

I’ve heard of a Denver omelet.

[Calvin Locke]

...talking about a Denver steak that comes from a different part of the cow. Ever heard of that?

Perhaps they were inspired by [Freakonomics] The Las Vegas Strip Steak Patent?