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

Posted by EditorDavid on from the may-I-take-your-order dept.

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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  1. Pizza is indeed a pie by Bruce+Perens · · Score: 3, Informative

    PIZZA is NOT a PIE

    You have simply never heard of savory pies. Pizza is one. Pies need not be sweet.

    --
    Bruce Perens.
    1. Re:Pizza is indeed a pie by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

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

    2. Re:Pizza is indeed a pie by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

      They don't have to be sweet, most pies outside of the USA aren't sweet.

      They do however, have to be pastry. Pizzas are bread.

      So unless your definition of "pie" is "round cooked thing", then pizzas are not pie.

    3. Re:Pizza is indeed a pie by DiSKiLLeR · · Score: 4, Informative

      THIS.

      In Austraila, New Zealand, and many other countries we have savory pries. I grew up on savory pies.

      But Pizza's ARE NOT PIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

      They are not fully enclosed in Pastry. The closest thing that comes to that is a Calzone. An ordinary pizza is absolutely NOT a pie. You east coasters are just retarded.

      --
      You can tell how powerful someone is by the magnitude of the crime they can commit and be able to get away with.
    4. Re:Pizza is indeed a pie by Hognoxious · · Score: 5, Informative

      Strictly, it's a tart.

      --
      Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
  2. The Ghost of Ned Ludd by ThatsNotPudding · · Score: 3, Informative

    The folks with all the money realized a few decades ago: there's just too many people (as other than prostitutes and bodyguards, we don't need them anymore due to off-shoring, computerization and automation).

    But rolling the cattle trucks is a bit too on the nose, so let's go with Permanent War, sugar-based industrialized food, set them at each others' throats with race and religion-based hatreds, choke-off competent and well-funded primary education, and what the hell, add in the idea that vaccines are a bad idea.