![]() “When there’s a robot making that food, you’re forgoing a certain sense of intimacy with another human being.”īenoit Herve knows all about the dining ritual as a Frenchman coming from a family of bakers. “Having a sensorial communitarian experience is a reason to go to a nice restaurant,” says Paul. Once robots are implemented in eateries, Paul is concerned that big fast food chains may just opt to put savings generated from employee cuts into their coffers and not into higher quality ingredients. Another big by-product could be simply losing touch with the very meaning of a meal, she says. Those include workers who operate machinery, prepare fast food, collect and process data.Ībout half of workers who make minimum wage, which is typical in food services, are under age 25, according to a 2018 Bureau of Labor Statistics report on low-income workers. jobs that will be lost to automation by 2030, those most susceptible are physical ones in predictable environments. Those most impacted will be workers on the low end of the pay scale, small salaries that ultimately will be made expensive when compared to robot overhead.Īccording to a recent study by the McKinsey Global Institute, of the 73 million U.S. “No one will be flipping burgers anymore.” These include “huge displacements of food workers over the next 10 years, or less,” says Paul. ![]() “So if there’s a meal that is transparent, of high quality, fast and affordable, why wouldn’t people try it?” Beware the pitfalls of robot chefsīut Paul also warns of potential pitfalls to an AI-powered foodie future. Given the hectic all-hours pace of today’s work life, “there is going to be less and less time in the day to eat well,” says Paul, who is also the author of “A Taste of Generation Yum” about millennials and food. The entrepreneurs behind these ventures all lay out the same rationale for pushing a robotized food future. Then add in the fresh smoothie robot at Blendid on the campus of the University of San Francisco, and Zume pizza in Silicon Valley, where employees share duties with robots. Beyond the burger robot at Creator, there’s the dancing coffee shop robot at Café X, Sally the salad making robot at an undisclosed tech company cafeteria, and the fresh baguettes pumped out by the Le Bread Xpress robot at a local mall. San Francisco has fast become an epicenter of this automated trend. ![]() ![]() Brussels-based Alberts is peddling its Smoothie Stations across that country. And the scientists at British-based Moley are working on a robot that will take over all chores in your home kitchen. In Brooklyn, BigEve Sushi has robots doing the rolling. and the world. In Boston, customers at Spyce get served up health food bowls by an automated machine. It's a shift is happening across the U.S. “That’s causing food business owners to get creative to hire people, whether that’s by looking at hiring the homeless or former convicts, or by offering workers gym memberships.” “In any cities where the cost of living is going up, this is an issue,” says Borden. ![]()
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