With a $20 minimum wage for fast-food workers, you knew the era of the fast-food machine was coming eventually.
A Los Gatos, California, business owner just started a new restaurant as a sign of the times.
Introducing, Burger Bots!
In Los Gatos, California, one of the San Francisco Bay Area's more affluent areas, a shiny new fancy fast-food concept has just popped up inside of one of its trendy upscale brunch spots. ABB Robotics and BurgerBots have teamed up and unleashed a pair of IRB 360 FlexPickers and YuMi cobots (collaborative robots) to slap out some tasty burgers for the masses - in 27 seconds, flat.
You read that right: The machine can make a burger start to finish in 27 seconds, which is a lot faster and more precise than other burger robots I've seen:
The owners aren't out and out saying that they've brought in the machines to skirt California's fast-food laws, but it seems pretty obvious.
One big giveaway is the sit-down atmosphere at the restaurant with human wait staff. The creators spin their robot crew as a way for human workers "to spend even more time with their customers."
...by taking care of the repetitive work, they let people focus on what really matters; that's the magic of hospitality.
Oh, did I mention that restaurants with "table service" are exempt from the fast-food minimum wage?
We'll wait and see how the new restaurants handle it once California reaches its 100% green energy goals, and they don't have power anymore ... like Spain!
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