In Boston, These Robots Are Now Serving Up $8 Salads and Bowls
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- čas přidán 30. 06. 2024
- At Spyce, you place your order on a screen, and then your lunch is prepared by robots. Check out the video above to hear from the founders and see how a Spyce grain bowl compares to a more traditional fast causal lunch.
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Finally, a robot to toss my salad.
lmao
This is actually great and the people who think robots are taking over people are just not thinking of the future. When you go out and eat having a really nice person serve you adds to your dining experience. Usually because people do all the work they are so busy they treat you like nothing and call the next person up. This allows for people to act like people and let robots do the mundane things in life.
For students, those prices are for sure not affordable. $5 is affordable, that's it.
$15 hour minimum wage will cause more robots to come into action.
Good maybe more people will get off their ass and learn a skilled trade of some kind and stop looking for a free ride because they never planned their life and find themselves washing fucking dishes at 30 years old.
@@jefferywilliams8479 cringe
Some restaurants in India have this and they are not paying their staff $15hr. Automation is happening regardless.
@@jefferywilliams8479 trigger alert
@@RaniJ24 What crap are you talking? Why would restaurants in India have to pay 15$/hr?
America's choices
1) Create robots that reduce cost and improve quality
2) Import millions of low skilled workers that will soon be unemployed due to automation
3) Do both
Oh great, more automation. I guess now I'll have to give up my dream of a career washing dishes and focus on something more meaningful in life.
Millions of people START in a crap job like dishwashing then work their way to a solid middle class life. You can skip the bottom rung with a strong education, but that's not an option for everyone.
utahstock12 No way you're hitting middle class working in the back end of a restaurant
Would you get equal pay to a dishwashing machine? I don't get how this works, but it sounds tempting.
utahstock12, Yep, and *most* *just stay in that crap jobs.*
(I am not saying they *choose* to stay there, I am saying this is how it is in this very sick society, more precisely in capitalist based society)
Ash Perry
No, you cannot! Automation does not benefit you in this sick system (aka Capitalism), but the capitalists.
Not the biggest fan of automation, but I love bowls and 7,50 is actually very affordable for pretty much everyone. I'll check it out when back to Boston.
$11 for a bowl of salad ?!?! Yikes !
Sadly enough, $11 for a bowl of salad sounds cheap to me. From San Francisco living in Los Angeles.
"more affordable" they said
Rachada Sutabutr Stenger No way
Rachada Sutabutr Stenger People are so unbelievably lazy and gullible, a dangerous combination.
US$ 8 for a bowl of salad is fairly normal in Sydney/Melbourne
Note how there is *still one cook* to serve the customer !
There still will be the need for cooks, just not as many of them in every restaurant.
Still expensive wtf
Ben Henry Not for a major city like New York or Boston, tbh $7 in nyc sounds cheap
Dont listen to him. $7 is only cheap in Manhattan where the yuppies and hipsters live. In the outer boroughs you can get a salad for $5 w everything you want on it.
it's fresh produce bruh
@@tarepandaval483 All food is SUPPOSED to be fresh "Bruh"
Not my fault people have have no standards and decide to eat cardboard garbage if they put enough nacho cheese dust on it. lol. Raise your standards my friend.
It's hippie food. Of course it's expensive.
"The robot takes care of the hard work the hot work, the washing and cooking which enables our employees to focus on the really really great stuff that people do like... hunting for another job..."
You be able to look any jobs if machines continue to do all the jobs for you lol.
Now in my country, a bowl of salad about $1 - $6. But sometimes vegetables are contaminated.
failogy this made me laugh more than it should have
I'm glad I'm not the only one haha
What's a little Hepatitis if you get a good price for your salad...right?
you can immunise against all oral hepatitis so yeah, save yourself some money.
In the US occasionally we have some contaminated vegetables as well but it happens rarely.
Or you could make the same thing at home for $0.70 😱
Aaron Zull Exactly!!
but you wouldn't get to see those fancy robots cook your food. stupid idea.
but it takes 8hrs
Yeah, rice, veggies, sauces and yoghert, nuts and salads for 70 cents ;)
MrHornfox considering you only need parts of the ingredients you just named, yeah, it would be 70 cents.
"AfFoRDdaBLe"
as far as salds go, it is pretty cheap
That's really awesome!
This is my son and I's dream! It's so cool to see it come to life. I hope this starts something!
Apparently robotic salad maker cannot compete with self-served salad bar, which is priced by weight and costs less.
Bill Gates said as automation replaces human workers they will eventually have to pay taxes to replace the same taxes people pay ...
Darren G good point
Doesn't that mean the food will become more expensive?
Harrison Walters you are talking like there isn't enough work to go around. There is more than enough work. No one needs these crap jobs there's another job waiting for them.
warehouse workers, somebody has got to fill those orders
elon musk also said that he was extremely concerned for the future because of automation/artificial intelligence. If Elon Musk is concerned then shitttttt so am I lol
Consistency wil no doubt improve. Great concept!!
Taco Bell power bowl $6.
garbage is cheaper
And you power bowl it down the toilet right after.
"Robots will make products more affordable"
*Charges $8 for a salad*
I prepare my lunch by myself, spending a fraction of what you pay for that salad, eating much more luxurious food, and having way more customization than that!!!!
YEP
in New York is pretty normal to eat out for every meal. A lot of the apartments don't even have a proper kitchen for the same reason - why put in a kitchen where there's always a food place around the corner?
How did this end up in my recommended ON THE DAY!!! That I perform an end of term gig audition at my university where I explained and performed a song that I wrote 6 years ago about how self check out machines in the uk are taking away jobs from people and another inspiration behind that song was when I was reading an article about low youth employment rates in our local area. Im just so freaked that a video like this would pop up right as I returned from my audition!
Brilliant!
I mean, how can I send flowers to you? 😍
robotic cook no waiting staff, all the customers on their phones welcomes to 21st century of depression and pills !
this is a great idea! I think it will catch on eventually. Basically any repetitive job will be replaced by robots.
No bathroom breaks, no smoke breaks, no play time, no chit-chat bull shit, no more fighting with your friends and other employees, and it's all sanitary clean also.
Rather cook for myself!
I hope they expand these robotic restaurants! They did a great job developing the concept and you still have the human interaction. I need one of those bowls!
They will only work in crazy taxed inner cities
they probably cost quite a lot to initially build, so if they aren't sure that they will be long term profit, they won't build it
THE SPYCE MUST FLOOOW
How many bunches of flowers did she receive from this?
Here's something else I can do for 48$ a month- make 3 times as much salad as I would spend 48$ on in some robo-kitchen.
At LEAST... More like 20x I bet or close to it.
$8 for lunch is not cheap, its about the max I ever spend.
Where are you, Cambodia?
@@MyTonyClifton I am a citizen of these united states of America. While I am more affluent today than I was four years ago, and I do now occasionally pay upwards of $20 for lunch, that is a choice and I am still able to and often do eat far too much food for something closer to $6. I can get a large one topping Dominoes pizza for $6 using coupons and other deals. I can get two corder pounders for the price of one + $0.25, del taco, arbies etc etc etc. Coupons are abundant and it's easy to get 1,000 calories or more for ≈$6.
When I cook at home and bring a sack lunch the cost is closer to $2 or $3. Food is cheap compared to housing here if your not totally retarded about it. Based off international commodity prices it should be possible to feed everyone for less than $1 per person per day with things like beans, rice, corn and other grains and cooking oils.
There is just way too much cost eaten up in supply chain inefficiencies and profit taking.
i like how you casually said *human* chef
That salad actually looks really good..
This kind of technology has been introduced or used in japan 5 years ago.
Eman Tanaka the difference with Japan is that they do not have the workforce. We have a young workforce that can hold jobs like this so it's really bad for our economy. Japan's people are older than Americans.
All that tech.... aaaaannnddd...
Plastic single use plate, cover, fork & knife.....
In a restaurant!?
This is worse than fast food McDonald's! At least they use paper.....
Totally agree
The eating utensils, bowls and plates are all biodegradable so it’s good for the environment.
i see a transparent plate cover on the video. no transparent biodegradable material exists that I know of, so its most probably plastic. Hopefully the other single use utensils are biodegradable.
C O Chitin
yo that’s what the fuck I wonder about all the time. All this technology and yet still no eco friendly packaging for restaurants/fast food
what if somebody sneezes into the hopper
Let me know when I can order a good tasting salad off the dollar menu.
Get rid of the fancy smelling bowls, let people mix five things for customizable dishes, have five preselected dishes to chose from, and don't add a bunch of small stuff on the side. Charge people $5 for a preselected meal and $6 for a custom meal and you'll help provide the community with healthy food for a decent price and make a decent profit. Cheap and healthy is the way to go. These guys, however, are charging the same price they would if they had a full kitchen staff which, in turn, is probably making them a killing.
PEPSI JAZZ lol ,if you are so smart ,maybe you should open your own restaurant !
PEPSI JAZZ good point!
It’s a rotating bowl that mixes prepped ingredients 🤔
And how were the ingredients prepared? Who unloaded the delivery truck?
please come to Philly!
What a time to be alive.
God forbid anyone should pay a wage!
Получается в автоматическом режиме всего лишь смешиваются и подогревается ингредиенты? В ролике почему то не показали, как подготавливаются, моются, чистятся овощи. Как отваривается рис. Как мясо отделяется от кости и жил и как нарезается на кубики. Как отмеряются ингредиенты и транспортируются к месту готовки. Как-то не внятно показали процесс мойки этих кастрюлек. При том что каждый раз было видно разводы и подтеки от предыдущего приготовления. Посыл интересен и перспективен но сейчас это всего лишь антураж чтобы выделиться на фоне конкурентов. Кмк.
Awesome
Robots ftw. I'd send flowers to her.
that seems disgusting how do they manage the cleaning? The sides of the robots looked like a slop tank
maybe watch the video
lol more disgusting than random humans handling your food??
I'd rather pay to have a cook or chef.
Martin Godinez then hire a cook and have him in your house to prepare you everything !
ram suresh that's not the point he's driving at. Martin would rather pay a human to do the work than pay a machine's greedy owner. Nothing about his home at all. That's arbitrary.
Youre right. Martin can do whatever he likes. Unfortunately most people dont really care so his service alone wont allow human run restaurants to survive against the competition thats willing to adapt.
I foresee a new food empire, like MacDonald's, with high quality food at affordable prices.
This is so cool I want to go
Cutting labor, of course, you have a more affordable healthy meal. I bet dodge businessman will use, also, short-cuts (powder, already-prepared-sauces, etc.).
"What wouldn't you let me add to this bowl?" What an odd question? Ummm, I don't know, cockroaches, spit, brains, liver....seriously? 🤦
TeacherTeacher she means things that are on the actual menu. They won't let you add in ingredients to your salad if they will mess it up.
OMG someone else that thought the same as me.. That question was... well.... exceedingly strange.
At least they'll get the order right. Some people can't even do that. In three minutes even.
This is some exquisite vocal fry by the girl. Not one word came out normally. Very nice.
How is that cheaper again? Chipotle costs about the same. All I see is the cutting of more jobs for your average person.
Chipotle is international.. look up economies of scale.
With this tech, they only need one store to pull off these prices.
Yes I agree with you Eliot.
I'm an owner of a restaurant and there are so many of us that have trouble getting and keeping the right help in certain areas. Everybody talks about taking jobs but so many in our society do not want to work hard. So you can't blame us for getting robots. I would love to implement this in my restaurant.
Yeah company only make money themselves and all ppl are getting poor..that is the rules...poor are poor and rich are rich... automations will lead it more.....now they are cut off all ppl ..all ppl are blind....no job left for human.. only company got the money.. u guy have to come up with it...if whole job doing by robot so what will human do... government cut job one by one ...and only those ppl suffering who get their job lost. Not full ppl..it's the rules of government so ppl will not protests from it...it's a long time jobless.u guy have to fix it
@@samuelpiliouras415 but if ppl don't have job...how will they buy from u ?
@@arunavachakraborty4565 tricky situation. Seems like a lose lose situation. I this k the answer is we have to make people less lazy. Less handouts from government.
THEY TOOK ERRR JOBS
DURRK-Eh-JERR
DURKA DURR!
Consider the market. Boston is going to be more expensive to operate in than a more rural area where that salad could be half the cost. Then you get the competitiveness
Wake me up when the price point drops to $1 for a dozen
So robotic machinery not only kills job but price hike as well?!?!
How do i send flowers to you??
Arnold Germosen I was looking for this comment. I though the same thing when she said it.
Even Wholefood salad bar can easily rank up that price or more if you start added some protein,
This would be perfect for school cafeteria!
This is what a minimum wage looks like.
This is amazing!
Gabriel Campos you idiot this is killing jobs
Gabriel Campos yeah less jobs AND the same high costs.....
Gabriel Campos robots were supposed to make everything cheap.....but then I used to think good people ruled the world
From where I live, we have a few quick eat places used to have this kind of machines to cook part of the restaurant's menu well before 2018. Those gadgets were not that fancy looking though. Quite a few of these places removed the machines now. They age very quickly. Lookef very stinky with time. They need multiple part repacement for a 14 hour day. Staff told me they remove the cooking pods for cleaning multiple times a day. I noticed there were quite a few down time in a day. Since they no longer hire a chef, that part of the menu will be not be available when robots were offline. The gadget's foot print was way bigger than you thought. During my visits in the early days many customers were excited about the idea and ordered food that will use these gadgets. It turned out all other foods from their orders were done but customers were still waiting for the robot chef. And I felt a 50% chance to have bad bowel if I ate robot lunch. If I order other things on the menu, I can't remember ever noticed bad bowel. These places were gradually disappearing though.
a lot of the early automated kitchens had massive hygiene problems because no one considered that when designing the machines, and they used a lot of industrial and low budget components that were not designed for or safe to use with food, and that made the cleaning much more difficult and greatly aggravated the hygiene problems. The more modern machines are usually designed to be easier to keep clean, but hygiene will always be a problem with the restaurant business - robots or not, there's a lot that has to be constantly kept clean and the one thing you don't see from eating at your table, is how much work it is to clean a kitchen. If the equipment is difficult to clean, it will be equally difficult to keep it clean, no matter if it's a robot or an old-fashioned mixer
I support this kind of automation.
These are the same people advocating for $15/hr minimum wage - while they work furiously to get rid of all non-skilled jobs through automation.
The Libertarian cooking is not unskilled labor
Highly Relevant Poster they probably aren’t advocating to raise the minimum wage.
Host: What's something that you wouldn't let me add to this bowl.
Me: My sperm.
Maybe she likes extra mayo
Maybe it would heal her incredibly annoying vocal fry! I say everyone who deforms their voice like that should get your dose of mayo!
🙄
I think she was flirtatiously talking about her other bowl!
I go to tossed, very sismlar but minus the robots (in the UK for about 6 dollars)
I'll send you those flowers 💐
I live in Boston, and I am cool with this.
These guys try to slither out from under the job-loss question by talking about better customer interactions and service. They lie, just like grocery store chains that claimed scanners would allow checkers to interact with the customers better. It quickly turned into a way to monitor and increase each checker's rings per minute rate. They started firing the slow ones. Notice how FEW lanes are now open in most grocery stores...
Read "The War on Normal People" for a sense of how this kind of automation will replace some or all of many, many, many of our current jobs. We're heading towards a society with increasing class separation. The Gods and the useless..
Always keep in mind that corporations are emotionless psychopaths that talk a big game but will side with the cash flow over human welfare EVERY TIME. Follow the money to predict their true intentions and behavior. The first things any struggling company cuts back on are the perks for their employees (bonuses, company picnic, free coffee and soda). People are the most expensive part of any company and the sooner companies can get RID of us, the faster they can maximize PROFITS, PROFITS, PROFITS.
Robots don't need picnics and free soda (or healthcare or family leave or sick days or vacations).
PeterC3400 sadly no robot is going to buy a salad. They can't afford one as they work for free. Lol.
Peter yet we didn't have any job losses. Sadly we humans need to progress. Put down one job for another. Might not be easy for everyone but it's better for everyone
The jobs that remain end up being lower paid than previously. When people can no longer find $25/hour jobs and are stuck taking $12/hour jobs, this constitutes a job L-O-S-S to the former $25/hour worker because what replaces it is NOT the same caliber of work. Many, many, many of us have already experienced the L-O-S-S of our 'good' jobs and the scramble to replace with one (or TWO) 'anything that pays' jobs.
Again, read "The War on Normal People" for more information on this trend.
@@jonathandpg6115 We're seeing job increases in three areas: highly skilled labor, part-time work, and gig economy jobs. The biggest gains are in part-time work and gig economy work. Both of which are low paid. Highly skilled tech jobs are in demand but only account for 9% of available jobs opportunities. You only need to look at the rust belt and farmer country to see where we are heading. And it's not good.
Automation isn't going to replace every job. Truly repetitive tasks like cooking and manufacturing can be automated but what those guys said about the need of a human element in a service will always be true for a long time.
Cooks can become RD for new recipes and food combinations. Waiters and Servers can focus on Customer Relations.
Many Jobs will either be lost or moved to another area. Regardless of how much we complain people will want to improve efficiency and efficacy of people doing robotic and repetitive tasks.
Also I do get your point on the fears that people will be out of job, but to remind you that regardless of how the now is... It will be much better for the incoming generations since the "bar" for low income jobs is reduced.
The main problem with their being too little jobs is that many executives or board members of companies care more about profits. Not all, but a lot.
Also people have kids... a lot... It creates a problem that there is so many people and not so many jobs.
Automation can also be a talking point in the overall improvement of the school system. Since the school systems around the world follow an overall factory worker mindset.
Yes there is unintended consequences when automation spreads to many industries. But you must also see the benefits and good we can make out of it.
Genius. I hate wanting to eat good but being 21 hard to do so.
I can see this working in some area's but personally I'd never even walk in the door .
This is what the Fight for $15.00 per hour minimum wage looks like. Congrats, YOU WIN!!!
Minimum wages are higher in europe and automation is less prevalent. Automation isn't suddenly appearing because of minimum wage, it would appear no matter what.
LOL
Boston Minimum wage isn't $15, what are you even taking about. Los Angeles minimum wage is higher and I can get a salad for 3 bucks. Like shut up, supply and demand determine prices, not wages. Also, they barely have any workers, so your logic is flawed, if there was more workers prices would be higher, but there isn't that many workers, and prices are high anyway, showing that minimum wage will not effect prices directly. Besides, when it was implemented in 1938, FDR said it was always supposed to be a living wage, and if businesses couldn't pay their workers a living wage, then they shouldn't be in business, in 1968, at it's peak, the federal minimum wage, accounting for inflation, is worth $12 today. So PLEASE, do some research on basic Economics.
Shut the fuck up. This shit was on its way long before that.
I love that, I would totally eat in a place like that and I want to open my own health food business, I hope that machine is commercially available until 2020.
I went there before the pandemic closed them down. It was still people doing all the loading and topping. They just heated the hot ingredients in these slowly rotating drums which dumped out into a bowl.
It's funny how she still bought a sweet green salad. LOLZ
Seven dollars down the street with better service and salad. Bye bye staff and lib pay.
yep and when the machine screws up your order good luck trying to get a refund from an ipad in a hurry.
actually, getting a refund in that case would be much easier. File a claim and go. No waiting for manager to tell you that only regional manager can do a refund and he is in charge for 72 stores and comes around only at 5am every other sunday.
This is a Elon Musk way of attacking the problem,
1) Identify the most expensive components or labor, 2) use technology to replace them, 3) Offer the same product or service at a reduce price point that hits the market needs.
Is there some kind of pun intended with using a journalist with so much vocal fry to speak about sauteed cuisine?
Why is everyone so cynical??? This is genius
This is incredible! faster and cheaper? I'm in.
Making healthy food more affordable.... For the people who used to be cooks... and are now out of a job... Yaaay!
And now have the potential to assemble, repair, deliver, package, sell, or even design or program the machines that replaced them at potentially a higher salary with more job benefits... Yaaaay!
because chefs went to school to become a robot mechanic
RustyAndroid, Every one of those examples will be automated as well. Assembly, repair, delivery, packaging, sales, and even design and programming. It's all going to be robots+AI. (Several of those ARE already automated actually).
Why is that a problem? Avoid giving sentience to any of the AI in charge of the robots, and then just give a Universal Standard Income to everyone.
Perfect robot utopia.
(I'm mostly joking, it will be more complicated than that, but robots replacing low effort jobs is not a bad thing).
You could have said the same about mcdonalds automating it's pre processing of its foods
Hmm - love to see something like this in Providence.
I love it
As a person who went to culinary school I could never be more against this job stealing technology. Cooks and chefs enjoy chopping and sauteing food. We also enjoy grilling food, searing, frying, and plating the foods that you enjoy and take for granted. Cooking is not just a job it is an art and like all other arts it should be protected. Also, taking away jobs doesn't help anyone.
Eilish McCahill
I am gonna buy your food as long as you stay competitive with the robots. I wont pay 4$ extra for my meal just to support your hobby tho. The invention of cars destroyed lots of jobs too, but I don't think we should ban cars and all the benefits that came with it, because of that.
Sorry but you're not entitled to a job based on your field of study. sucks but it's true
Human cooked foods will remain for a long time. This type of service best benefits very populated areas with high customer turnaround, who also have a large selection of food providers to choose from.
If you’re talking about less populated/rural/third world/even luxury consumer areas.. this tech won’t provide significant benefits over human workers.
If your target job after culinary school is making bowls then you need to rethink your career.
This tech seems to aim at a much lower level of an employee with nowhere near your level of education or expertise. Think SaladWorks, Chipotle and alike.
This is okay but it would have been more novel if they eliminated the need for any "finishing" touches by a human.
I think the humans there are just a gimmick. 1) They "control" the allergens, 2) they smile and wave as they pass out the bowls. Anyone with half brain understands that they are there only for show and some legal reasons.
Just a bowl dumper.
A Whataburger near me recently upgraded their technology. But they didn't fire their human workers; what they did was have them bring you your food (instead of you going to the counter for it) and walk around giving people extra ketchup and napkins. That is to say: for the same price as a fast-food burger joint, you now have a fast food burger joint with better service.
"...bring you your food (instead of you going to the counter for it) and walk around giving people extra ketchup and napkins." That will be very easy to eliminate, one staff member at a time. Society is already used to getting their own trays, napkins and ketchup anyway. Nobody will care when the place is totally void of human employees.
I wrote a story set in 2109 in which one of the jobs left was "waiter at fancy restaurant." There were also teenagers to greet you at fast food joints, though everything else in such a place was automated. But at a fancy place, you pay extra for the privilege of being served by actual human beings.
Saving a couple of dollars by supporting businesses that put machines over employing people is not a good idea, because if more and more people are not working due to automation, your job will eventually seize to exist too due to lack of people who can buy your services or products, and you will soon be replaced by robots as well. It's just simple logic.
peter lee lol, you obviously know nothing about automation, I guarantee they are operating at a loss and their technical problems aren't going to be in the article. Automation is not a long term solution to anything. People that think someday everything will be automated are very wrong.
St. LongEar I'm an automation technican, moron.
St. LongEar because the automation constantly has issues, idiot. They can't even make reliable vending machines, specialized equipment costs specialized dollars and takes specialized service. If you can't afford to pay kitchen staff then you can't afford to pay a technican compotent to maintain and service the equipment, dipshit.
hahaha ok, the machines they showed there at shit simple noting incredible about it. not that many money parts and at most the cost to build it is 20k from them know that is not including R&D but you are dead wrong with your assertions.
No it isn't. What's a bad idea is employing people in pointless jobs that don't need to be done. If you want them to have jobs that badly, then have a business where the work is done for them and pay them to go and masturbate and play video games for 8 hours a day. The same work will get done and the employees would be happier than if they had to spend it doing menial repetitive work.
This is not progress.
Noodles needs to use this system
Guys I kid you not the food there is so freaking good I go there like all the time for work cause of how quick it is.
Robots are great, but why does every millenial sound like an blonde valley-girl?
Because they are all snowflakes.
I wouldn't eat here simply because they don't serve any meat
Where can I buy this?
I work down the street from this place. They don't state the elephant in the room, Robots don't require a living wage. Granted there are some employees, not too many.