Here in California, most farm workers appear to earn above the minimum wage already, so you could nudge the minimum wage up a decent amount without having much

Here in California, most farm workers appear to earn above the minimum wage already, so you could nudge the minimum wage up a decent amount without having much impact on the industry. I suspect full automation is the wrong way to think about the issue anyways. You don't need to completely automate things to reduce labor costs. There are a lot of ways to make a restaurant kitchen more labor efficient, some of which don't involve automation at all.