Re:Burger Robot Startup Opens First Restaurant
by xtirpation on Thursday June 21, 2018 @08:18PM
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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).
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.