<story><title>This robot serves up 340 hamburgers per hour</title><url>http://singularityhub.com/2013/01/22/robot-serves-up-340-hamburgers-per-hour/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>citricsquid</author><text>Does anyone here have experience with fast food enterprises? It would be interesting to hear about how this sort of machine could affect companies like McDonalds and whether or not it&apos;s &lt;i&gt;the future&lt;/i&gt; or just a cute idea that won&apos;t scale?&lt;p&gt;I have the feeling that, if this sort of idea was as value as the article implies, McDonalds (or Burger King, or any other big chain) would have put serious money into developing this sort of thing and it would already be everywhere.&lt;p&gt;(I wish there was a website or publication that took businesses and profiled how they work, the challenges they face and the costs associated with parts of the business consumers might not understand, so these sort of questions were easy to answer. I would love to read how McDonalds works (as a business))</text></comment>
<story><title>This robot serves up 340 hamburgers per hour</title><url>http://singularityhub.com/2013/01/22/robot-serves-up-340-hamburgers-per-hour/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>anandkulkarni</author><text>When I met the Momentum Machine guys here in San Francisco, I was shocked that they were planning to open a restaurant chain instead of licensing the technology out to existing players. Opening restaurants? Making food? Very un-startupy, right?&lt;p&gt;But it turns out that if anyone can do it, these guys can. The brick-and-mortar restaurant business is massive, bigger than many technology sectors, and prime for disruption with new food and models: there&apos;s a $184 billion global fast food market, a $2.1 trillion global market, and just about everybody needs to eat.&lt;p&gt;This has the potential elements of greatness: serious, hardcore mechanical engineers as founders, with a background in the restaurant industry.  More power to John and Alex -- can&apos;t wait to try my first one.</text></comment>