I should totally design a fully-automated restaurant.
It wouldn't even be that difficult. 😕

Burgers and fries? Simple!
Pasta? Simple.
Sandwiches? Boringg.
Salad? No way.

Automated food prep is best idea.

the robot hamburger joint in san francisco needed 5 years and $10 million to develop the machine and pivoted from beeing the cheapest burger to beeing the freshest burger. Because there is still so much human labour needed to refill and clean the machine that the cost savings are marginal.

the verge - robot burger
https://youtu.be/1Kfd3VHiVhY

good luck 👍

@heyheni Cleaning could be automated. Refilling.. probably not as easily. Maintenance and QA would be manual.

I'd need someone who was into robotics / electronics to help me build it, though. I kinda hate hardware 😕

@Root I could help! Though there's the very small problem of living in a different country. Also, funding. Hardware ventures need a fuckton of initial funding (been there, done that, sort of).

Also it's not that trivial.
Some guys I know pitched an automated restaurant as a business plan, they couldn't even get their prototype to work in the presentation (after a year of dev). Though just because they failed doesn't mean it's not doable, that's true too.

Because you hate people having jobs? 😋

@Root Renting out restaurant space is expensive and there are taxes and regulations. How about an autmated kitchen on wheels? It cooks your meal on the way to the delivery. That way you have much more potential customers as with a stationary Restaurant.

@nbamaral There is always work to do.

Automation, much like abstraction, shifts focus; it does not reduce possibilities. Quite the contrary: you will see new industries appearing as automation trivializes others. Why? We can suddenly do more in the same amount of time.

@RememberMe @heyheni
Oh, I know the hardware would not be trivial at all. Very likely harder than the software.

And the regulations would likely be the most difficult of all. 😕

But with hoppers and slicers and sifters, think of how quickly you could compile a sub sandwich. With analytics and sensors, the machinery could predict how much of each ingredient it will need in the coming days/weeks (and how long they would last before spoiling), and automatically place orders.

It sounds like an incredibly fun (and challenging) project!

Mostly hardware, though; the software aspect wouldn't be much harder than anything else I've done recently 😕

stop begging for downvotes @xzvf 😄

@Root many of these places already use just-in-time inventory systems to figure out how much to stock up on, but yeah, a machine could probably cut a few more corners there.

Hey, I wonder if I could come up with a sub maker model in ROS and Gazebo (robotics simulation stuff).

Hey good salad is the BEST. Not a vegen, I love a good stake more than the next guy. But sometimes there is nothing better than a nice salad with olives and feta cheese covered in honey mustard dressing (Also cut up fried chicken mixed in is always a plus).