The Briefing Room
General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Topic started by: EC on May 12, 2013, 12:25:35 am
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Via gizmag: http://www.gizmag.com/hamburger-machine/25159/
Hamburgers are a multi-billion dollar business, and while fast food chains have got the process down to an efficient production line process, making them is still labor intensive with armies of burger flippers and sandwich assemblers. In a move that could put millions of teenagers around the world out of their first job, Momentum Machines is creating a hamburger-making machine that churns out made-to-order burgers at industrial speeds and aims to use it in its own chain of restaurants.
More at link.
Note these machines are not intended for factory work, but for take outs and convenience stores. That minimum wage hike had some unintended consequences.