Friday, October 30, 2020

Zero Hedge — White Castle To Automate Kitchens As Contactless Shift Will Accelerate Job Loss

As restaurants across the country adjust for a post-pandemic world, driven mainly by the shift to a contactless environment via the adoption of automation and robotics, fast-food restaurant operator White Castle announced Tuesday morning additional robot deployments were nearing in the pursuit to automate kitchens.

White Castle, who announced a partnership with Miso Robotics' Flippy, a robotic chef, in July, which we've highlighted for years (see here & here), released a statement, announcing ten White Castle locations will soon receive robotic chefs.
More jobs not coming back post-pandemic.

Maybe time to revive and automate Horn & Hardart with separate eating stalls? And yes, Horn & Hardart really does have a Wikipedia entry.

10 comments:

Andrew Anderson said...

More jobs not coming back post-pandemic. Tom Hickey

So, the MMT approach:

1) More government privileges for the banks so the so-called "credit worthy" can continue to automate jobs away with what is, in essence, the PUBLIC's credit but for private gain.

2) Mop up the unjustly dis-employed by paying them to waste their time with a JG.

Got stupid?

Matt Franko said...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automat

mike norman said...

I remember Horn & Hardart. Used to go there with my dad as a kid.

mike norman said...

This is why basic income is needed. The job guarantee is obsolete. What jobs? Robots will be doing most of service and production work soon.

Marian Ruccius said...

Any number of jobs is possible -- much better, socially productive jobs than dead-end fast food jobs. AND, by the way, the basic income is the greatest remover possible of good quality jobs: it will just increase the precarity faced by the earning classes.

Nebris said...

Horn & Hardart had an extensive food prep crew behind the little food cubicles. I remember looking thru to see them at the big one on 42nd and 2nd in NYC.

Matt Franko said...

Correct Marian... I can make my own sandwich ...

Peter Pan said...

Baby Boomers will demand a JG when they're unable to take care themselves.

Tom Hickey said...

Horn & Hardart had an extensive food prep crew behind the little food cubicles. I remember looking thru to see them at the big one on 42nd and 2nd in NYC.

Right, and that can be automated. Could be an entirely robotized food preparation and delivery system. Even the payment system could be digitized, eliminating the need for tokens. But as a kid putting tokens in and getting food was a thrill. There were no vending machines back then. The Chinese are probably already doing something like this.

Tom Hickey said...

Horn & Hardart had an extensive food prep crew behind the little food cubicles. I remember looking thru to see them at the big one on 42nd and 2nd in NYC.

Right, and that can be automated. Could be an entirely robotized food preparation and delivery system. Even the payment system could be digitized, eliminating the need for tokens. But as a kid putting tokens in and getting food was a thrill. There were no vending machines back then. The Chinese are probably already doing something like this.