Regarding your specific problem, maybe it's not as grim as you see, you just have to think bigger and farther ahead: I am talking of course about Robot Kitchens

Regarding your specific problem, maybe it's not as grim as you see, you just have to think bigger and farther ahead: I am talking of course about Robot Kitchens. After automated driving this will probably be the next big frontier. This seems to be the state of the art: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNcPVvIs_tk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNcPVvIs_tk http://www.moley.com/about-us/ http://www.moley.com/about-us/ They state that the consumer version is set to launch in 2018. It will probably take several more years to work out all the kinks. But this is likely the actual future of cooking, not the local outsourcing.