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Re:White Castle wants to install robot cooks in 100 new loca... by vageli on Monday March 14, 2022 @08:07PM (#30680142)
> No burger cooking at all. And if you've seen how they do the burgers at WC [2], that's no small task for a robot yet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSYlFMylrWI&t=1m14s

From the video, it actually seems as though White Castle burgers are even more optimized for process automation as their preparation doesn't even require flipping (TIL).

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Re:White Castle wants to install robot cooks in 100 new loca... by joezydeco on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @12:49PM (#30687609)
The water and onions are so messy that it actually would be a hinderance to automation. The bread would also need to be steamed somehow.

If you want to see flipless automation, McDonald's has been doing it this way for a few decades now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mj7_a1Egew

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