One special McDonalds ticket to machine-repair college, let's replace the workers with technicians and then make THOSE jobs minimum wage.
That'll be the future. People groaning at minimum wage jobs for repairing current-day minimum wage jobs.
That'll be the future. People groaning at minimum wage jobs for repairing current-day minimum wage jobs.
I can guarantee this machine would never make that metric. And I'd really like to see what this machine looks like after making 40 burgers, much less 400 or 4000. 40,000? Forget it.
Cooking and handling animal protein is a very messy job. Letting semi-skilled workers load raw beef into a hopper? That's a non-starter right there for a company like McDonald's.
A group like McDs has had half a century to figure out the most effective way to make this stuff, make it cheaply, and make it safely (for both crew and customer). This is not a direction anyone like them would take.
Once the machine proves effective, they are likely to identify impeding factors like labor cost of cleaning and figure out how to minimize those costs.
A simply food-safe inner-laminated (possibly PTFE) non-woven material would be perfect for these machines. Easy to package and ship in collapsed form to McD's around the country and extremely cheap to manufacture, especially at McD's scale.
The main factor preventing McD's from adopting this is the cost of ingredients. This machine most likely requires all beef chuck, without fillers to achieve the desired quality level.