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Posted: Friday, April 24th, 2015

Burger Machine Could Change Fast Food

  Momentum Machines has invented a burger making machine that could make the fast food workers who demanded higher wages obsolete.  Gizmag reports that the burger machine can take raw materials and produce fully assembled burgers at the industrial rate of 400 per an hour.  The designers boast that the machine uses "gourmet cooking techniques" and vegetables that are not sliced until placed on the burger which ensures freshness.  Gizmag points out that making burgers costs the U.S. $9 billion a year in wages for fast food workers. Supposedly, the cost of the new burger machines would pay for themselves in just one year. It seems the free market has found a way to solve the disgruntled burger flipper problem - replace them with a machine.  

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