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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Re:Pizza is indeed a pie

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:Pizza is indeed a pie

[DiSKiLLeR]

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.

Re:Pizza is indeed a pie

[Hognoxious]

Strictly, it's a tart.