USA Today reports:
The latest workers on the chopping block? Fast food line cooks.Yet, some morons think $13 minimum wages at burger joints are right around the corner!
A San Francisco startup called Momentum Machines has built a robot that can do anything restaurant employees can do, except better. That’s not hyperbole on our part—it’s a promise straight from the company’s website.
The robot is essentially a large, self-contained assembly line. It can create custom grinds for individual customers (e.g., a patty with 1/3 pork or bison meat), cook the patties, slice toppings and place them onto the burger, and even bag them. There! No more “sandwich labor” necessary. According to the company, the burger-making bot is also more consistent and more sanitary than human chefs, and—here’s the meat of the matter—can produce roughly 360 burgers per hour, or one burger every 10 seconds.
Momentum co-founder Alexandros Vardakostas doesn't beat about the bush in explaining the ultimate goal of his machine:
“Our device isn’t meant to make employees more efficient,” he told Xconomy. “It’s meant to completely obviate them.”
