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Re:Vertical farms grow veggies on site at restaurants and gr... by OldHand2018 on Thursday January 21, 2021 @12:57PM (#25861835)
> Once it works in SF with high wages it works in Montana with low wages.

Can it? The robot in SF may make financial sense because of high utilization. A low-wage worker can do 100+ useful tasks when the restaurant is not busy enough to require constant burger making. Is a burger-making robot flexible enough to match that?

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Re:Vertical farms grow veggies on site at restaurants and gr... by bluGill on Thursday January 21, 2021 @01:03PM (#25861917)
The robot can also sit around doing nothing without complaint and for no extra cost. So the robot need not be used 100% of the time. Even in SF the robot will not be used much at 2am.

Though I was referring to the small cities in Montana. Nobody will put a robotic burger joint where there are no people. However a town of 5000 has a lot of people who need to eat, more than enough to make it worth running numbers.

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Re:Vertical farms grow veggies on site at restaurants and gr... by 908B64B197 on Thursday January 21, 2021 @01:56PM (#25862560)
It won't replace all employees.

It'll just replace some.

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