I'll tell you right now; there is no way a robot is going to replace good cooks. No way.

You'll be lucky to get 5% of the industry to use your robot dishwasher a year into production. A lot of small restaurants are reluctant to get an automatic dishwasher now because of the cost alone, which is why many still use 3 compartments.

I'll bet my entire investment portfolio on this. You win, you pay the rest of my mortgage. Deal?
- Blackstrom2

And you know all of this (especially the 5% number) from what experience? Not too long ago, that was said about kiosks and cashiers. And autonomous cars.

Lotsa folks just don't get the impacts of obamacare and $15/hr, plus other goodies.

And is your investment portfolio at least into 7 figures (left of the decimal)?

And since you mentioned CapEx only.......you'll see. That's why I absolutely love to see the "fight for fifteen".

Politics aside, did the Caps check with the Pens about the name change?...after all, we know thats who really OWNS the Caps

And you know all of this (especially the 5% number) from what experience? Not too long ago, that was said about kiosks and cashiers. And autonomous cars.

Lotsa folks just don't get the impacts of obamacare and $15/hr, plus other goodies.

And is your investment portfolio at least into 7 figures (left of the decimal)?

And since you mentioned CapEx only.......you'll see. That's why I absolutely love to see the "fight for fifteen".
- blackhawk24

Truly autonomous cars are a long ways off. If you have to have a conscious, not drunk or high human behind the wheel that has a driver's license it's not an autonomous car. Sure it will be able to maintain speed and can have lane discipline, and parallel park, but asking any more than that for the majority of cars is far away. The cost alone would be ruinous to most people.

There's a massive difference between cooking and scanning a bar code or punching in an order. Or even washing dishes for that matter.

One of our latest prototypes goes to Alpha test before year's end. This model handles all dish clearing, wash, sanitize, dry and stack for 200 full dinners per hour. It has a ROI of 5 years for a typical chain steakhouse. We expect to go to Beta before end CY19 and receive type acceptance 2Q20. It's rate of dish breaks is just under 5PPM, unheard of with humans.

No more chipped or dirty plates. Oh, and it uses 1/2 the water. It has its own on-demand water heater so it hooks into existing piping. And it can run on electricity (240V single phase) or Methane or Propane. Its water outlets have built-in grease traps and conditioning so there are no in-floor traps needed. It works great on new restaurants or existing, retrofit.

Coolest part is our team filed several patents. A tech with a 2 year associates degree in electronics can handle routine PM. With IT experience, they can handle all AI mechanisms.

Our models for cooking and plating are about one year after the King Kong of dishwashers.
- blackhawk24

I'm genuinely curious: how the frank does it clear dishes? From the tables?

I'm genuinely curious: how the frank does it clear dishes? From the tables?
- Atomic Wedgie

Maybe it clears the food left on the plates?