AT the McDonalds inside Walmart, they have a freezer, with the fries already loaded in it and it dispenses exactly the amount of fires needed to complete an order.
They receive the fries in the “fry basket”, turn around and place them in hot oil.
I keep thinking “Why not automate the whole thing? Move the freezer and fryer next to each other and create some articulated arm that can drop the fries and then shake and salt when done?”
Can’t be that difficult. Hell, there are lots of jobs being done like in the automobile and oil industry.
Same thing with cooking meat patties at rush hour. Automate it.
I can remember when I found myself in San Francisco in 1956, a store had an automated doughnut fried machine about the size of a popcorn machine, I don't recall ever seeing one since.