5 minutes isn't fast when there's 20 people in line ahead of you.

Presumably, the restaurant will be able to make more than one burger at the same time, just like other restaurants.

The point is that it's faster than a burger at a specialty burger restaurant, like Red Robin.

Unless they speed up the machine (possible with future versions) or add multiple machines (which increases the required retail space as well as capital expenditures), they're limited by the robot's 5 min throughput. Serially cooking is no way to run a restaurant.

A grill at Red Robin operates in parallel and can easily beat this thing at throughput.

> they're limited by the robot's 5 min throughput

5 minutes is latency. The article says nothing about throughput, but the video shows multiple burgers pipelined on the machine's conveyors.

I hope the beef's better than the crap at Red Robin!