Burgers and Fries Go High-Tech AI as CaliExpress Opens the First Fully Automated Restaurant – Employees Not Included

In Pasadena, California, the world’s first fully automated, artificial intelligence-powered restaurant has opened.

According to Los Angeles Magazine, the eatery CaliExpress, which serves burgers and fries, launched in December and requires reservations.

Cali Group, which designed the establishment at 561 E. Green Street, collaborated with Miso Robotics to open the cafe.

The robotics firm “previously launched the world’s first AI-powered fry station, and PopID, a tech company that utilizes biometrics for ordering—a triple collab the Terminator would be gleaming over,” according to the report.

The robots can be seen working inside the facility on video footage, and a News Nation reporter stated, “This is like a whole new level of robot takeover inside restaurants.”

“It’s why much of the service workforce could soon become obsolete,” she said.

I thought California just increased the minimum wage for fast food workers from $16 per hour to $20 per hour. That move cost 1,200 Pizza Hut drivers their jobs, as the pizza giant simply cannot afford the new wage. But now it looks like $0 per hour when there are no more employees.  Believe me, if this idea catches on, you will see all the other fast-food joints signing up for these robotics. Robots do not call out sick, they do not take vacations; they don’t complain, and they don’t ask what the minimum wage is.

Chipotle began testing an AI robot called Chippy in March 2022, which is purportedly capable of making tortilla chips. Miso Robotics owns Chippy, according to the site.

From Breitbart News:

Chippy is the first and (so far) only robot that utilizes artificial intelligence to make tortilla chips.  Miso Robotics is not only developing robots to make tortilla chips, however. Breitbart News previously reported on the burger chain White Castle’s implementation of the company’s Flippy burger-flipping robots which have been fitted at more than 100 locations.

Miso’s Flippy Wings robot is also being tested at Inspire Brands’ Buffalo Wild Wings. Saladworks has also been working with Chowbotics to develop a salad-making robot called Sally, while Jamba has begun working with Blendid to create automated

Miso Robotics board member John Miller recently said, “The marriage of these various technologies to create the world’s most autonomous restaurant is the culmination of years of research, development, and investment in a family of revolutionary companies.”

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