{"id":135956,"date":"2014-08-11T17:48:33","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T17:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=135956"},"modified":"2014-08-11T17:48:33","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T17:48:33","slug":"heres-burger-flipping-robot-put-fast-food-workers-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/business-news\/heres-burger-flipping-robot-put-fast-food-workers-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s The Burger-Flipping Robot That Could Put Fast-Food Workers Out Of A Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><span style=\"color: #222222;\">DYLAN LOVE<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">A company called\u00a0<a style=\"color: #00709a;\" href=\"http:\/\/momentummachines.com\/\">Momentum Machines<\/a>\u00a0has built a robot that could radically change the fast-food industry and have some line cooks looking for new jobs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">The company&#8217;s robot can &#8220;slice toppings like tomatoes and pickles immediately before it places the slice onto your burger, giving you the freshest burger possible.&#8221; The robot is &#8220;more consistent, more sanitary, and can produce ~360 hamburgers per hour.&#8221; That&#8217;s one burger every 10 seconds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">The next generation of the device will offer &#8220;custom meat grinds for every single customer. Want a patty with 1\/3 pork and 2\/3 bison ground\u00a0to order? No problem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Momentum Machines cofounder Alexandros Vardakostas\u00a0<a style=\"color: #00709a;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/san-francisco\/2012\/06\/12\/hamburgers-coffee-guitars-and-cars-a-report-from-lemnos-labs\/\">told Xconomy<\/a>\u00a0his &#8220;device isn\u2019t meant to make employees more efficient.\u00a0It\u2019s meant to completely obviate them.&#8221;\u00a0Indeed, marketing copy on the company&#8217;s site reads that their automaton &#8220;does everything employees can do, except better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/momentum-machines-burger-robot-2014-8\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DYLAN LOVE A company called\u00a0Momentum Machines\u00a0has built a robot that could radically change the fast-food industry and have some line cooks looking for new jobs. The company&#8217;s robot can &#8220;slice toppings like tomatoes and pickles immediately before it places the slice onto your burger, giving you the freshest burger possible.&#8221; The robot is &#8220;more consistent, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":135957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-135956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-business-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}