Robots Destroy Service Jobs
Motherboard
Brian Merchant | Motherboard
No human hand touched this hamburger. It was made entirely by robots.
It can whip up hundreds of burgers an hour, take custom orders, and it uses top-shelf ingredients for its inputs.
Our alpha machine replaces all of the hamburger line cooks in a restaurant. It does everything employees can do except better.”
And what might this robotic burger cook of the future do better than the slow, inefficient, wage-sucking line cooks of yore? It slices toppings like tomatoes and pickles only immediately before it places the slice onto your burger, giving you the freshest burger possible. …custom meat grinds for every single customer.
Furthermore, 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.”
Yeah, robots are taking our jobs, and it’s not a question of if, but when and how.