What Does the Rise of Machines Mean for Fast-Food Workers?

Experts say fast-food burgers will be made by robots in about five years

corey mintz
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8 min readOct 21, 2019

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The burger robot is cool as hell. The elegant mass of machinery, color-coordinated in white, copper, and blond wood, represents some important, unanswered questions, such as how automation will reshape the dining industry. But before we address…

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corey mintz
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Corey Mintz a food reporter, focusing on the intersection between food with labor, politics, farming, history, ethics, education, economics, land use & culture.