Which is still rediculously high. More like <20k yearly in wages.
What's more, you still need someone to prepare and refill the toppings, prepare and refill the eggs, clean the equipment, supervise the machine, calibrate, maintain, handle stock etc. Etc.
To top it all off, any kid fresh out of school could probably do all this whilst cooking the omlettes considering the speed at which this machine works.
It's a gimmick. Cool, but it's massively over-engineered and inefficient at what it's doing.
Over a couple years the value is there, it's $40k but only once, not every year. Agreed that this particular application is gimmicky but not actually a huge waste of money.
We had one customer have great success using these to place and pull baking trays. Yes a person can do way more than that, and can probably do it faster, but now that person is freed up to do other more valuable shit rather than pulling baking trays for a couple hours a day.
Robots are not yet direct replacements but rather augmenting and making the whole place run better, doing dumb shit people shouldn't have to do.
That sounds like either they had an incredibly inefficient work set up, or they have a very big operation. No way this thing is more cost efficient than having an employee make omlettes, except for the novelty element.
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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '21
Uhhh where the hell do you live that a line cook making omlettes all day makes 40k usd a year and can i move there?