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Robot hamburger factory makes 360 Gourmet Burgers every hour...
Next Big Future Blog ^ | December 5, 2013 | Brian Wang

Posted on 12/11/2013 2:31:57 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Momentum Machines robot enables a restaurant can offer gourmet quality burgers at fast food prices.

It does everything employees can do except better:

* it slices toppings like tomatoes and pickles immediately before it places the slice onto your burger, giving you the freshest burger possible.

* their next revision will offer custom meat grinds for every single customer. Want a patty with 1/3 pork and 2/3 bison ground to order? No problem.

* Also, our next revision will use gourmet cooking techniques never before used in a fast food restaurant, giving the patty the perfect char but keeping in all the juices.

* it’s more consistent, more sanitary, and can produce ~360 hamburgers per hour.

The labor savings allow a restaurant to spend approximately twice as much on high quality ingredients and the gourmet cooking techniques make the ingredients taste that much better.

They will launch the first restaurant chain that profitably sells gourmet hamburgers at fast food prices.

Their current device can pay for itself in less than one year, making equipment sales a second path for Momentum Machines.

In New York City, about 100 protesters blew whistles and beat drums as they marched into a McDonald's chanting "We can't survive on $7.25."

And in Detroit, more than 100 workers picketed outside two McDonald's restaurants, singing "Hey hey, ho ho, $7.40 has got to go!"

One-day labor walkouts were planned at fast-food restaurants in 100 cities Thursday, with protests in scores more cities and towns across the nation.

The machine takes up 24 square feet but replaces all of the human cooks and kitchen. The restaurant can be smaller and make more revenue per square foot. Most short order restaurants need to pay $135,000 per year for the cooking staff. The robot replaces the people, the kitchen and uses less space.

The Robotic restaurant was described in detail by Marshall Brain in his fictional story Manna.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: beef; fastfood; food; foodsupply; minimumwage; robots
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Breakfast would come to a halt when the plastic pancake squirter got jammed. I think a million dollar robot is above the engineering skills available in a McD.


21 posted on 12/11/2013 2:54:27 PM PST by ToastedHead
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To: Calvin Locke

NJow THERE’S an idea.


22 posted on 12/11/2013 2:55:05 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

It’s actually a little tricky to cook meat to perfection while retaining most of the fat.


What I do is mash and rub in one scrambled raw egg for every couple pounds of burger. The egg cooks, trapping the fat throughout the meat.


23 posted on 12/11/2013 2:55:23 PM PST by txhurl
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

24 posted on 12/11/2013 2:55:32 PM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Telepathic Intruder
It's actually a little tricky to cook meat to perfection while retaining most of the fat.

Thin burgers are the hardest. Thick burgers are easier. At home you can cook them low and slow and use a digital meat thermometer.

Burger house cooks are able to cook burgers consistently because of the repetition. A machine could do it even more precisely.

25 posted on 12/11/2013 2:55:44 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Obamacare: You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.)
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To: Hugin
That is already being done. When I was in San Francisco a few years ago, there is a public toilet next to Coit Tower that is self cleaning. They are all over San Francisco.

Self Cleaning Restroom

26 posted on 12/11/2013 2:57:15 PM PST by lormand (Inside every liberal is a dung slinging monkey)
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To: txhurl

Nice tip. For steak, you should let it warm to room temperature before grilling or oven-cooking (yes, it’s possible to oven cook it). It lets the heat reach the center quicker.


27 posted on 12/11/2013 2:58:48 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: elcid1970
Fifty years ago I was hearing about the huge battle ...

Yeah, and during the time of the American Revolution in England, there was this guy called Ned Ludd...

28 posted on 12/11/2013 2:59:05 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
And in Detroit, more than 100 workers picketed outside two McDonald's restaurants, singing "Hey hey, ho ho, $7.40 has got to go!"

With these machines their wish will come true.

29 posted on 12/11/2013 3:00:18 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yes...but can the robot make Cheeburgers...Cheeburgers...


30 posted on 12/11/2013 3:02:18 PM PST by 4yearlurker (Some people say that experts agree!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I don't know about this.
The thought of machines preparing food doesn't sound too appetizing.
What happens when the machines jam? What if lubricants and metal get into the food?
Get rid of the minimum-wage and leftist policies and we wouldn't have to automate.
31 posted on 12/11/2013 3:03:04 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Governor Sarah Heath Palin for President of the United States in 2016)
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To: Calvin Locke
Oops, that's Arthur Hailey, not the plagiarist Alex Haley.
32 posted on 12/11/2013 3:04:23 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Hey hey, ho ho, $7.40 has got to go!"

Who says protesting doesn't work? These guys are going to get exactly what they asked for. The $7.40 is going to go away - permanently.

33 posted on 12/11/2013 3:05:46 PM PST by Hardastarboard (The question of our age is whether a majority of Americans can and will vote us all into slavery.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

What if lubricants and metal get into the food?


You can bet there are SEIU lawyers waiting to insert stuff into the food... there will be sabotage.


34 posted on 12/11/2013 3:07:00 PM PST by txhurl
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Most every ready to eat meal you’ve ever had from a supermarket (frozen, canned, freeze-dried, boiling bag, etc.) came from a machine.


35 posted on 12/11/2013 3:09:35 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet ("Of the 4 wars in my lifetime none came about because the US was too strong." Reagan)
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To: RandallFlagg

lol.. I’d gladly take two robot made burgers today and even more next Tuesday...


36 posted on 12/11/2013 3:10:08 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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To: Dalberg-Acton

Care for a thin mint, Sir?


37 posted on 12/11/2013 3:10:15 PM PST by WorkingClassFilth
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Those fools who recently picketed fast food places will rue the day they chose that road.


38 posted on 12/11/2013 3:13:21 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: 4yearlurker

No coke. Pepsi.


39 posted on 12/11/2013 3:20:24 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
What if lubricants and metal get into the food?

(So, parts of human fingers aren't a problem?)

From what I understand, in the food packaging business, one of the last tests a unit of food goes through is a metal detector. (Not sure how cans and other metallic containers are screened).

As for lubricants, they are probably natural/digestible. Back in the early days of steam engines, pig fat was used.

(And FWIW, I believe the first use of a steam engine in the food industry was in the early part of the nineteenth century by Joseph Fry, the big kahuna of the burgeoning chocolate industry in England. He used one to power the cacao bean grinder.)

40 posted on 12/11/2013 3:22:29 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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