Automation is posed as a labor shortage solution, but workers say robots are making their jobs — and food — worse.
  • 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.
  • 3abas@lemm.eeEnglish
    42·
    3 days ago

    The first paragraph is a fantasy.

    In this restaurant, where the chef was replaced by a salad machine, the “chef” was a human salad machine before. There was no time to play with garnish and playing, they weren’t serving Michelin star food. The term “chef” is used very liberally here, you aren’t a chef if the only thing you cook at a restaurant is assemble salad that a machine can do to the same standard.

    They were assembling salads, it wasn’t a dream job.

      • 3abas@lemm.eeEnglish
        12·
        3 days ago

        You assemble the same soulless food everyday and you actually feel fulfilled by assembling croutons differently every day?

        Hey, I can’t imagine the process not becoming muscle memory and for my brain to not be somewhere else completely, but you sprinkle salt off your elbow if that gives you joy.