Robots, which can serve up salads faster than humans, are helping Sweetgreen save on labor costs.
It turns out robots can make decent chefs. Just ask salad chain Sweetgreen, which is testing automating some food preparation in order to speed up customer wait times and cut labor costs.At a Sweetgreen 'Infinite Kitchen' restaurant in Naperville, Illinois, a proprietary robot, not human salad makers, is handling the bulk of the work.
Other fast food and fast casual restaurant chains are experimenting with automation, too. Chipotle and White Castle have tested similar systems. At Sweetgreen, the robot shoots greens such as kale into a salad bowl, which moves on a conveyor belt as other components are added and the salad is dressed and shaken. 'Then a person just puts on the final ingredients and it's put on a little shelf and you pick it up and that's it,' Haddon said. 'And I have to say it was fast.
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