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We hear a lot about robots eventually taking over jobs in manufacturing, but automation has already hit the service industry. The cashier who takes your order at McDonald's could soon be replaced.
Automation Comes To McDonald's
Posted from npr.org
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If you want a sandwich at WAWA you input your choices on the computer screen, pay for it and hand over the ticket so they can make it for you.
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At Panera bread now you can walk in and order on a small screen, swipe your card and pick up your food a tthe counter when yournumber dings and never talk to an employee. They do have cashiers to take yourorder if that is what you prefer but not very many.
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MAJ James Woods
Hell, you can order your food on an app, park in the reserved pickup spot and wait for your order. Human interaction is becoming less of a requirement or an expectation. Think there's a burger joint in California where a machine makes all the burgers to order to include putting the toppings on the burger. Humans are there to maintain the machine and hand the order to the customer.
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Lt Col Scott Shuttleworth
MAJ James Woods - Wow...haven't heard of the food automation piece of it yet.
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MAJ James Woods
Taste test: Burger robot startup Creator opens first restaurant – TechCrunch
Creator’s transparent burger robot doesn’t grind your brisket and chuck steak into a gourmet patty until you order it. That’s just one way this startup, formerly known as Momentum Machines, wants to serve the world’s freshest cheeseburger for just $6. On June 27th, after eight years in development, Creatorunveils its first robot restaurant before opening to the public in September. We got a sneak peek…err…taste.
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Expect to see this more and more as cities and states are forcing their minimum wages up.
As it is the fast food industry operates on very low margins and their largest expense is labor. As wages go up it becomes more cost effective to invest in technology and the more people develop these technological systems the better and less expensive they will become.
I predict within 20 years your typical fast food restaurant will operate with less than half as many human employees as they do today, with "robots" taking orders and even making food as well as doing most of the cleaning.
As it is the fast food industry operates on very low margins and their largest expense is labor. As wages go up it becomes more cost effective to invest in technology and the more people develop these technological systems the better and less expensive they will become.
I predict within 20 years your typical fast food restaurant will operate with less than half as many human employees as they do today, with "robots" taking orders and even making food as well as doing most of the cleaning.
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