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New robotic dishwasher for restaurants is taking the dirty work out of the kitchen

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Robotic dishwasher for restaurants taking dirty work out of kitchen
More than half a million people work as dishwashers in the United States today, according to the most recent data from the Department of Labor. But that’s not nearly enough hands to keep cookware clean in the 660,755 establishments counted by the 2018 NPD Group Restaurant Consensus.Enter Dishcraft, a start-up building a robotic dishwasher for commercial kitchens.


CEO and founder Linda Pouliot said that to figure out what tech could really do to help, she and CTO Paul Birkmeyer went to restaurants of every kind, volunteering to wash their dishes. Restaurateurs and managers were more than welcoming.
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Fancy tech, I like it!
 
Renae said:
Robotic dishwasher for restaurants taking dirty work out of kitchen
Fancy tech, I like it!
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It requires special dishes — lots and lots of them.

The dishes have to be bought from the dishwasher manufacturer.
The dishes have metal disc which lets the dishwasher manipulate them.

The dishes are washed in stacks by type.
So, you cant run through what comes back to the kitchen as it arrives.
You have to run a stack of bowls, then a stack of plates, etc.
So, you have to have enough plates and bowls that you can keep sending out food while you're waiting on the dirty ones to pile up.

The dishwasher looks like it washes the dishes individually and inspects each one individually.
That can't be quick.

Additionally, the dishwasher doesn't seem able to wash silverware, glasses, cookware, or anything but the special plates and bowls.

If you were starting a brand new, very, very large cafeteria, this may be worth it if you put the system in place from the get-go.
But for everyone else, it's probably not even close to being worth the extra hassle.
 
I was in a 'Stop n Shop' grocery store the other day..

Over the intercom a announcement was made that there was a 'clean up needed in produce'

I happened to be produce at the time and a robot came out to do the clean-up.. A beeping, 7 foot robot.. 2 older women were near the 'clean-up'.. I thought they were going to have a stroke. They really looked scared..

Anyway that is the future.. 3-2-1- to the Trumpsters blaming Obama for automation and taking away jobs..
 
Phys251 said:
I think this was inevitable. By 2050 we might see most restaurants' jobs automated.
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Possibly. I've often figured eventually many cooking duties will be automated because let's face it, restaurants as a rule aren't about cooking with flair or art, just repeating the same crap ass prefrozen/pre measured meals. It's garbage.
 
Simon W. Moon said:
It requires special dishes — lots and lots of them.

The dishes have to be bought from the dishwasher manufacturer.
The dishes have metal disc which lets the dishwasher manipulate them.

The dishes are washed in stacks by type.
So, you cant run through what comes back to the kitchen as it arrives.
You have to run a stack of bowls, then a stack of plates, etc.
So, you have to have enough plates and bowls that you can keep sending out food while you're waiting on the dirty ones to pile up.

The dishwasher looks like it washes the dishes individually and inspects each one individually.
That can't be quick.

Additionally, the dishwasher doesn't seem able to wash silverware, glasses, cookware, or anything but the special plates and bowls.

If you were starting a brand new, very, very large cafeteria, this may be worth it if you put the system in place from the get-go.
But for everyone else, it's probably not even close to being worth the extra hassle.
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It's a start, I see it being big in cafeteria style settings.
 
Renae said:
It's a start, I see it being big in cafeteria style settings.
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Eventually, dishes robots'll be so easy to design and operate that kitchens'll be compelled to have a dishes robot.

I suspect that the current sticking point is keeping the costs etc down low enough to meaningful.

We have sufficient technology in existence — not necessarily in production, but in existence.
 
Renae said:
Possibly. I've often figured eventually many cooking duties will be automated because let's face it, restaurants as a rule aren't about cooking with flair or art, just repeating the same crap ass prefrozen/pre measured meals. It's garbage.
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Not all of them. There are still places that know how to cook right.
 
Phys251 said:
Not all of them. There are still places that know how to cook right.
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True, I was more talking about the chain joints. Texas Roadhouse, Chili's, TGIF **** places like that. I used to like going out for Steak, then I learned how to do it right. If I go out for a steak, its' to a fancy fancy joint or not at all.
 
Don't worry, if we just pay people less and less then robots won't take our jobs.
 
Simon W. Moon said:
Eventually, dishes robots'll be so easy to design and operate that kitchens'll be compelled to have a dishes robot.

I suspect that the current sticking point is keeping the costs etc down low enough to meaningful.

We have sufficient technology in existence — not necessarily in production, but in existence.
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Its simply a matter of design iteration now.
 
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