This robot needs only one hour to pump out 400 burgers made with fresh ground beef, salad, complete with a toasted bun. Tech blog Xconomy reported the prototype they saw demoed could save a fast-food restaurant up to $90,000 a year in training, salaries, and overhead costs.
Momentum Machines' BurgerBot is a fully automated burger maker that can produce about 400 burgers an hour with fresh ground beef, salad and a toasted bun, occupying about 24 square feet[1][3]
Xconomy reported the prototype could save a fast-food restaurant up to $90,000 a year in training, salaries and overhead; the robot's cost is given as $30,000[1] or $35,000[3]
In June 2017 the company raised $18 million and was on the verge of opening a robot burger restaurant, with a building permit for 680 Folsom Street in San Francisco's SoMa[1][3]
The concept dates to 2012, when Vice reported a machine making about 360 burgers an hour, intended to replace all line cooks; co-founder Alexandros Vardakostas said it was meant to 'completely obviate' employees[1][2]
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Vice independently reports the same claim as the pin's source (originally an Xconomy story on Momentum Machines' prototype, which the company said could produce roughly 360-400 fully customized burgers per hour) - corroborating the underlying prototype demo, though no single firm date is given and the company's actual 2018 Creator restaurant topped out far lower at about 240/hour.
PYMNTS covers Momentum Machines' (the robot's maker) 2017 funding round, independently confirming the company and robot behind the pin's claim were real, though not pinning an exact date for the 400-burger claim itself.
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