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Re:Burger Robot Startup Opens First Restaurant by Nition on Thursday June 21, 2018 @06:45PM (#17369869)
On top of that the article says it takes around a full five minutes from ordering to your burger being ready, and all those ingredients in tubes look pre-prepped to some extent. Plus it can't be easy to clean.

That one from the 60s actually looks more impressive, wow!

Re:Burger Robot Startup Opens First Restaurant by greedo on Thursday June 21, 2018 @07:55PM (#17370175)
LOL. 5 minutes a burger, at $6/per. So this thing can sell $72 worth of burgers per hour. At that rate and price, there's no way this will ever be profitable. Even with add on sales of artisanal, hand shaved potato chips with bespoke cream soda bumping the cost up to $10 a customer, this is DOA. Interesting technology, but as a business, DOA.

Edit; I missed that he's paying his employees $16/hour (good for him). So if he has 2 employees fulltime, he's got $32/hour + payroll taxes/unemployment insurance etc to earn before he can pay off the R&D for this, his rent, his food cost, his utilities, his advertising, and then have an ROI for his investors.

And he has "experience" and a family in the business! Why they didn't talk him out of this is beyond me.

Re:Burger Robot Startup Opens First Restaurant by xtirpation on Thursday June 21, 2018 @08:18PM (#17370264)
5 minutes to make a burger from start to finish isn't the same as making 12 burgers per hour - the machine can probably prepare multiple burgers at a time (just speculation from the video, of course).
Re:Burger Robot Startup Opens First Restaurant by jfoutz on Thursday June 21, 2018 @08:20PM (#17370267)
It’s not clear how many can be in the pipeline.