This robot-powered burger joint could put fast food workers out of a job
Melia Robinson
Jun. 30, 2016, 4:50 PM 30,979 56
A robot-powered burger joint is coming to San Francisco.
In 2012, secretive robotics startup Momentum Machines debuted a machine that could crank out 400 made-to-order hamburgers in an hour. It's fully autonomous, meaning the robot can slice toppings, grill a patty, and assemble and bag the burger without any help from humans. The internet flipped out.
Years of relative silence ensued, but in January, Hoodline's Brittany Hopkins learned that the San Francisco-based startup had applied for a building permit to convert a ground-floor retail space in the SoMa neighborhood into a restaurant.
Now it looks like the restaurant is actually happening. A job posting on Craigslist from early June gives us our first glimpse into how the company's future flagship, presumably opening soon, might work.
"This location will feature the world-premiere of our proprietary and remarkable new advances in technology that enable the automatic creation of impossibly delicious burgers at prices everyone can afford," the ad explains.
http://www.techinsider.io/momentum-machines-is-hiring-2016-6
Looks delish. Look for more of these to pop up and the major chains to jump on board. McDonalds already has automated ordering at front counters and have outsourced drive thru order takers. It's inevitable.
So politics, if you're a restaurant franchise owner would you pay $15/hr for someone to flip burgers and dip fries and push buttons on a cash register when you can save tens of thousands a year for a more efficient and automated operation? And without the headaches.
