From EconoTimes.com…
Chipotle Mexican Grill is now testing robots to man the tortilla chips-making in its restaurants’ kitchen. The company thought of this as one way to combat the labor shortage that it is facing today.
Chipotle has teamed up with Miso Robotics to create the type of machine it needs in the kitchen. With its partnership with the casual dining chain, the robotics automation firm’s chief executive officer, Michael Bell, said that “automation is the solution to the labor shortage in the United States today.” The chief also confirmed that robots would soon be making the tortilla chips at Chipotle outlets in the country.
“The restaurant industry had a labor gap before the pandemic and the pandemic just accelerated this big gap between the number of jobs and the available labor,” Fox Business quoted Bell as saying in a statement. “It is not as easy as it may look but the very specific way they (tortilla chip-making robots) are made is – technology now can follow and do exactly the same way that a human does.”
