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Here’s a Look at the World’s ‘First Smart Restaurant,’ Kitchen-Free and Run by Robots
Foodbest ^ | November 16,2012 | Dominique Zamora

Posted on 07/18/2013 11:01:17 AM PDT by Hojczyk

Here’s Momentum’s official copy:

Fast food doesn’t have to have a negative connotation anymore. With our technology, a restaurant can offer gourmet quality burgers at fast food prices.

Our alpha machine replaces all of the hamburger line cooks in a restaurant.

It does everything employees can do except better:

t slices toppings like tomatoes and pickles only immediately before it places the slice onto your burger, giving you the freshest burger possible. Our next revision will offer custom meat grinds for every single customer. Want a patty with 1/3 pork and 2/3 bison ground after you place your 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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at foodbeast.com ...


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To: Hojczyk

I love this!!!!! It would have been nice 20 years ago.


21 posted on 07/18/2013 11:31:01 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Santorum-Bachmann 2016 for the future of the Country!)
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To: seacapn
I suspect that within a couple decades, a whole lot of jobs will be replaced by robotics or automated systems.

Techsourcing has been going gangbusters for years. Recently we passed the point where there are more semi-skilled workers than jobs requiring them. This trend is going to do nothing but accelerate and is impacting skilled workers as well. The question remains: what will the excess workers do for a living?

The Democrat plan is to put them on the government plantation. Socket them into a government job or program and finance the ever-growing cost of their upkeep. I don't know for sure what they will do with them when Other People's Money finally dries up. Some type of Soylent Green solution, I suppose. They already do everything in their power to keep the hoi polloi from reproducing.

The Republican plan is...? With techsourcing, growing the economy does not necessarily result in more jobs-it may actually result in fewer jobs as breakthroughs in productivity occur. I don't have any ideas, myself.

22 posted on 07/18/2013 11:31:14 AM PDT by jboot (It can happen here because it IS happening here.)
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To: Hojczyk

And no Obamacare to fund!


23 posted on 07/18/2013 11:37:42 AM PDT by CSM (Keeper of the Dave Ramsey Ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: seacapn

“What happens when “entry level” jobs simply no longer exist? Beats me.”

Kind of like when secretaries were replaced by computers....


24 posted on 07/18/2013 11:39:05 AM PDT by CSM (Keeper of the Dave Ramsey Ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: Hojczyk

Someday all of these service industries will be automated. Of course, there won’t be anyone with the funds to go there, but it’ll still be cool.


25 posted on 07/18/2013 11:39:32 AM PDT by Wolfie
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To: jboot

If we had a hands off government, the solution would “magically” appear and many people would find jobs in a nifty new industry. However, we have the restrictive, heavy hand of government holding back innovation, so you are right to be concerned.


26 posted on 07/18/2013 11:43:06 AM PDT by CSM (Keeper of the Dave Ramsey Ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: Gaffer
I'll take spit any day over butt scratching. I prefer to eat at home. The problem with robots is if they have to have human clean them off using the same rag that was used to clean the restroom.
27 posted on 07/18/2013 11:47:00 AM PDT by bgill (This reply was mined before it was posted.)
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To: seacapn
I’m not really sure how the future will deal with this. What happens when “entry level” jobs simply no longer exist? Beats me.

We import more foreign workers to do the next tier of work, of course!

28 posted on 07/18/2013 11:51:49 AM PDT by null and void (Republicans create the tools of oppression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
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To: null and void

OMG!!! All those masters degrees wasted at Starbucks.

What will those out of work Womyns studies majors do now?


29 posted on 07/18/2013 11:59:45 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (The reason we own guns is to protect ourselves from those wanting to take our guns from us.)
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To: CSM
Although I agree with you, rapid advances in productivity are leading the growth strategy to a point of diminishing returns. Nifty new industries will hire small cadres of highly skilled workers to build and maintain their automated infrastructure, but there will be a diminishing need for less-skilled labor even in a growing economy.

Most of these less-skilled workers are not going to move into management. Most of them are not going to become entrepreneurs. Most of them are not going to take unskilled jobs because they cannot compete with imported labor. Most of them will become chronically unemployed. I don't have a solution to the problem.

30 posted on 07/18/2013 12:21:59 PM PDT by jboot (It can happen here because it IS happening here.)
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To: Hojczyk

The machines don’t need health care.


31 posted on 07/18/2013 12:23:34 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: jboot

If we didn’t have so much government interference, some solution would be created. That is the way it has always been and always will be. Capitalism is “magical” in such things...

However, with the level of government intrusion into the market, you are right. We will have a population of unemployable folks that won’t do anything to better themselves. They will be just comfortable enough to sit around and complain about the “rich” people that go to work.


32 posted on 07/18/2013 12:37:52 PM PDT by CSM (Keeper of the Dave Ramsey Ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: jboot

Plus, if a solution to the problem arises, like a nifty new industry, then it will be in spite of the government.


33 posted on 07/18/2013 12:38:44 PM PDT by CSM (Keeper of the Dave Ramsey Ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: Hojczyk

Oh. You’ll get served Peak Oil and nuts.


34 posted on 07/18/2013 12:39:33 PM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Obama: the bearded lady of Muslim Brotherhood))
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To: Hojczyk

The SEIU will try to organize the robot burger making machines. Just wait.


35 posted on 07/18/2013 12:41:17 PM PDT by MasterGunner01
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To: jboot
what they will do with them when Other People's Money finally dries up.

The U.S. government is already confiscating a percentage of automation output via the highest corporate income tax in the world and via other taxes and fees. An energy tax is in part an automation tax. As long as we have energy, that wealth keeps getting created and won't run out, although the beast will always want more. Borrowing trillions from the future is a bet that future robots will be able to service that debt. The unemployed will become essentially human pets and will gravitate to the big cities where it is easier to house and care for them. Like most pets, they will be fixed in exchange for treats, so the surplus pet supply will eventually be reduced. If for some reason the government comes to a point they can't afford or find new homes for their pets, or the pets get too old and expensive to care for, most will be put to sleep. A nuclear war which wipes out the big cities would also solve the surplus problem.

36 posted on 07/18/2013 1:02:17 PM PDT by Reeses
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To: CSM
I hope capitalism is magical enough. The greatest business innovations in history were driven by labor shortages, not labor surpluses. Labor surpluses give you ugly things like Dicken's London.

I think it is also a little unfair to think that ALL the workers won't do anything to help themselves. There won't be a whole lot that they CAN do. Those who try to stay in the game by retooling will be competing with younger, better educated candidates for a small number of openngs. IMO they won't have much chance.

37 posted on 07/18/2013 1:07:55 PM PDT by jboot (It can happen here because it IS happening here.)
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To: Hojczyk

Nothing on the face of this Earth, will ever replace that now-gone, but revered Horn and Hardardt ‘Automat’ in NYC.


38 posted on 07/18/2013 2:22:31 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: Terry L Smith

Yes! I was delighted to partake of the offerings from a Horn and Hardardt Automat sometime in 1969 while in NYC. Quite an experience.


39 posted on 07/18/2013 5:47:00 PM PDT by OldPossum
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