{"id":1438,"date":"2018-07-02T13:00:51","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T17:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasserstrom.com\/blog\/?p=1438"},"modified":"2018-07-30T15:38:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T19:38:00","slug":"trend-watch-robotic-cooks-kiosk-ordering-cashless-restaurants-and-the-bringing-the-gig-economy-to-restaurants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasserstrom.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/02\/trend-watch-robotic-cooks-kiosk-ordering-cashless-restaurants-and-the-bringing-the-gig-economy-to-restaurants\/","title":{"rendered":"Trend Watch: Robotic Cooks, Kiosk Ordering, Cashless Restaurants and Bringing the Gig Economy to Restaurants"},"content":{"rendered":"

This issue of Trend Watch<\/strong> has a common theme: Restaurant Labor<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Employees are one of the largest expenses in running a restaurant<\/strong>. Competition is heating up and businesses are trying to squeeze every penny of profit out of their restaurant. So it isn’t surprising that there are technology solutions stepping in to help.<\/p>\n

Robot Burgers<\/h2>\n

Both the Wall Street Journal<\/strong><\/a> and Wired Magazine<\/strong><\/a> have feature articles on Alex Vardakostas<\/strong>‘ new San Francisco restaurant, Creator<\/strong>. The point of interest isn’t the food, but the way that it is cooked. A robotic “burger bot<\/strong>” creates all the restaurant’s burgers without human intervention.<\/p>\n

From the slicing of the brioche bun, to freshly sliced pickles, onions and tomatoes, to toppings applied down to the ounce, the burger is precisely assembled without the aid of a human cook<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This isn’t the first foray into robotic burger chefs. We’ve seen Flippy, the burger flipping robot in action<\/a>. But unlike Flippy who just turns burgers over on the grill, the new burger bot at Creator takes the process all the way without human intervention.<\/p>\n