World’s ‘First Smart Restaurant,’ Kitchen-Free and Run by Robots

[MachineGhost]

"Fast food doesn’t have to have a negative connotation anymore. With our technology, a restaurant can offer gourmet quality burgers at fast food prices.

    Our alpha machine replaces all of the hamburger line cooks in a restaurant.

    It does everything employees can do except better:

        It slices toppings like tomatoes and pickles only immediately before it places the slice onto your burger, giving you the freshest burger possible.
        Our next revision will offer custom meat grinds for every single customer. Want a patty with 1/3 pork and 2/3 bison ground after you place your order? No problem.
        Also, our next revision will use gourmet cooking techniques never before used in a fast food restaurant, giving the patty the perfect char but keeping in all the juices.
        It’s more consistent, more sanitary, and can produce ~360 hamburgers per hour.

    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.

http://foodbeast.com/content/2012/11/16 ... -robots-2/

[doodle]

Man vs. machine. Sounds like the beginning of SkyGate in the terminator movies.

[Storm]

I would totally eat there!  I'm digging the fact that you can pick whatever grind of meat you want and have it fresh ground and charred exactly as you like it, by robots who will not wipe their nose with their hand and then touch your burger.

It looks as if the first versions will need to have raw ingredients queued up by humans, based on the pictures.  It's still pretty impressive that all you have to do is put stacks of tomatoes, onions, and lettuce in the chute and it does the rest.  I believe they could automate everything if they get the shipping containers and packaging correct.  Just have a delivery person load boxes of raw ingredients into the unit once a day and let it be completely automated.