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Here’s a Look at the World’s ‘First Smart Restaurant,’ Kitchen-Free and Run by Robots
Foodbest ^ | November 16,2012 | Dominique Zamora

Posted on 07/18/2013 11:01:17 AM PDT by Hojczyk

Here’s Momentum’s official copy:

Fast food doesn’t have to have a negative connotation anymore. With our technology, a restaurant can offer gourmet quality burgers at fast food prices.

Our alpha machine replaces all of the hamburger line cooks in a restaurant.

It does everything employees can do except better:

t slices toppings like tomatoes and pickles only immediately before it places the slice onto your burger, giving you the freshest burger possible. Our next revision will offer custom meat grinds for every single customer. Want a patty with 1/3 pork and 2/3 bison ground after you place your 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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at foodbeast.com ...


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1 posted on 07/18/2013 11:01:17 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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Gee.... a spit-free burger...white people will love it.


2 posted on 07/18/2013 11:04:37 AM PDT by Gaffer
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I want to see one actually buthcer and dress the cow first


3 posted on 07/18/2013 11:05:11 AM PDT by Mr. K (There are lies, damned lies, statistics, and democrat talking points.)
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Is it bilingual?


4 posted on 07/18/2013 11:06:06 AM PDT by DownInFlames
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http://www.gizmag.com/hamburger-machine/25159/

Where will Obama college educated kids work??? I forgot welfare!!!!!

http://momentummachines.com/gallery/

Looks like they maybe out of business


5 posted on 07/18/2013 11:07:25 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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a gourmet hamburger? now there’s an oxymoron!


6 posted on 07/18/2013 11:08:42 AM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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I ate a fair amount of Army chow in my day...most of which tasted like it was cooked by robots.


7 posted on 07/18/2013 11:10:18 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Civil Servants Are No Longer Servants...Or Civil.)
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Gee.... a spit-free burger...white people will love it.

Yeah, you just keep on telling yourself that a robot prepared meal is saliva free, meatbag.

8 posted on 07/18/2013 11:10:22 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (This message has been recorded but not approved by Obama's StasiNet. Read it at your peril.)
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They’ll have to concoct some spit-flavoured additives — otherwise people won’t believe they’re getting a real burger.


9 posted on 07/18/2013 11:11:50 AM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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I suspect that within a couple decades, a whole lot of jobs will be replaced by robotics or automated systems. Lower-level service industry work will take the biggest hit, but so will a lot of “white-collar” functions. And there are quasi-automated functions like prefab building panels (with wiring and plumbing and all) that are still in the early stages of their full potential.

I’m not really sure how the future will deal with this. What happens when “entry level” jobs simply no longer exist? Beats me.


10 posted on 07/18/2013 11:12:16 AM PDT by seacapn
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Ah, an Automat for the iPhone generation.

It is kind of odd to pass off a century-old idea as "innovative". Wake me up when Herr Ober is open for business.

11 posted on 07/18/2013 11:13:08 AM PDT by jboot (It can happen here because it IS happening here.)
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No worry about them washing their hands after they take a dump.


12 posted on 07/18/2013 11:16:15 AM PDT by Proud2BeRight
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Ah, an Automat for the iPhone generation.

The Automat still required a line kitchen behind to prepare the food; and indeed, everything in the Automat was pre-plated. This is different: prepare-to-order with no staff.

13 posted on 07/18/2013 11:18:51 AM PDT by kevkrom (It's not "immigration reform", it's an "amnesty bill". Take back the language!)
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Obamacare will have to be amended to include robot maintenance fees.


14 posted on 07/18/2013 11:19:05 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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imagine how much people will demand zombie labor free restaurants.


15 posted on 07/18/2013 11:20:34 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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The 1950's Miracle Kitchen of the Future is finally here!

(click for story and video)


16 posted on 07/18/2013 11:23:08 AM PDT by Iron Munro (They Old. That's Old School People. We In A New School, Our Generation)
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Waiting for the television program where Gordon Ramsay shows up and tells it it’s doing it all wrong.


17 posted on 07/18/2013 11:23:09 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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This burger is RAWR!!!!


18 posted on 07/18/2013 11:25:23 AM PDT by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept?)
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It’s an odd choice to automate. Developing a roofing robot is an easier task and saves $18/hour in workmans comp insurance costs.


19 posted on 07/18/2013 11:29:30 AM PDT by Reeses
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They’ll have to concoct some spit-flavoured additives

Shhhh. The Rev. Jesse "Shake Down" Jackson will want a piece, claiming he invented spitting in [white] people's food...

20 posted on 07/18/2013 11:30:58 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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