Mechanisation of food production is as old as human ingenuity itself. Commodity staples and many packaged foods today would be impossible to produce without the help of machines. The next step is introducing robots into restaurants. As labour costs soar, that could give cyborgs another mechanical foot in the door.
Restaurants suffered hard during the pandemic. Staff, once found, do not hang around long given the industry’s high turnover rates. Even a radical Australian proposal to lower the minimum age to work to 13 offers an unlikely solution.
In fast food restaurants, where competition is high and efficiency vital, machines already chip in. Lex’s own back-of-the-burger-wrapper calculations suggest that trend will continue.
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