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Old 10-25-2023, 07:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Rainger99 View Post
White Castle is using robots to make French fries. I would assume that making hamburgers will be next. With kiosks and robots, it seems that fast food restaurants will have significantly lower labor costs in the future. And more starter jobs will disappear.

White Castle is rolling out fry cook robots across the US
Won't happen because the aim of automation is not to bring prices down. It's to push profits up. The real losers will be the employees who will be out of a job. That's why I NEVER use the self-checkout lanes. I'm willing to stand in line for a few minutes to save someone's job.