Robots Are Already Replacing Fast-Food Workers (recode.net)

An anonymous reader quotes Recode: Technology that replaces food service workers is already here. Sushi restaurants have been using machines to roll rice in nori for years, an otherwise monotonous and time-consuming task. The company Suzuka has robots that help assemble thousands of pieces of sushi an hour. In Mountain View, California, the startup Zume is trying to disrupt pizza with a pie-making machine. In Shanghai, there's a robot that makes ramen, and some cruise ships now mix drinks with bartending machines.

More directly to the heart of American fast-food cuisine, Momentum Machines, a restaurant concept with a robot that can supposedly flip hundreds of burgers an hour, applied for a building permit in San Francisco and started listing job openings this January, reported Eater. Then there's Eatsa, the automat restaurant where no human interaction is necessary, which has locations popping up across California.

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Slashdot editors soon....

[Anonymous Coward]

I can't wait for the day robots replace the Slashdot "editors". Maybe the comments can be written by robots too to get rid of ass-hats like me.

Machine

[Kohath]

Is there a machine that washes the dishes? That would be news.

Re:Pizza is indeed a pie

[PopeRatzo]

Your Mom's pie is very savory, but she's more of a tart, really.

Have you been pecan in on us again?

Re:Pizza is indeed a pie

[Ol Olsoc]

> I blame that incredibly annoying song by (I think) Dean Martin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's amore

And when it comes to pass, that an eel bites your ass - That's a moray.

Re: Already in McDonalds

[Jeremi]

Not "sperm donor".

I'm not sure that counts as a job. i.e. Working an 8-hour shift, 5 days a week would be difficult for most.