Yes, we've seen those! We're essentially building a big, souped-up version of #1 with a lot more features. #2 is an interesting comparison that raises the ques

Yes, we've seen those! We're essentially building a big, souped-up version of #1 with a lot more features. #2 is an interesting comparison that raises the question of why now is the time to build automated restaurants. The biggest reason in my mind is actually labor cost and people's increasing unwillingness to work fast-food style jobs. When AMFare came out it was easy and cheap to hire teenagers to flip burgers, but that's less and less the case and people still want cheap, convenient food. There are also other factors like the fact that we have a lot more modern electronics to work with and learned from examples like AMFare to make our system easy to clean.