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Hamburger automator Alexandros Vardakostas has opened his long anticipated restaurant and now presents himself as the cheerful, welcoming entrepreneur in the video below: But in 2012, he was quoted in Xconomy saying, “Our device isn’t meant to make employees more efficient; it’s meant to completely obviate them.” Vardakostas was just saying what many business […] June 29th, 2018 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: Alex Vardakostas, automation, Creator restaurant, fast food, hamburger, kiosk, robot, unskilled workers |  Email This Post |  Print This Post Except for the really high class restaurants, low-skilled workers are adequate for the simple tasks required in food prep. As a result, automated replacements are coming on particularly strong in the food industry, particularly since some workers have been clamoring for $15/hour — bad timing there. Below, McDonalds has begun to install ordering kiosks in […] November 27th, 2017 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, food prep, immigrant workers, job displacement, kiosk, low-skilled workers, restaurant, robot | Email This Post | Print This Post |
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