• Robot chefs are replacing humans at some South Korean highway restaurants.
  • Tech companies say robots can help solve labor shortage in an aging nation.
  • Workers say their roles have been downgraded from chefs to cleaning staff.
  • Goodtoknow@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    why is automation removing the joy and creativity of cooking instead of the dishes, which is what the person is left to do.

    • ssillyssadass@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Automation should replace cooks, but in fast food restaurants instead of proper ones. They should free up people who work brain-dead jobs at Mcdonalds or KFC to let them work at other places, including other proper restaurants that don’t make fast food.

      • Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        Lol yeah right. I’m sure the only thing stopping Brandon from working at a Michelin restaurant is his McDonald’s job off of I-95