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I wonder why nobody found a way to completely automate the dish-washing process? Is it really that hard? Couldn't you have dish-type-customized trays and a "mon
by nnq 14y ago
I wonder why nobody found a way to completely automate the dish-washing process? Is it really that hard? Couldn't you have dish-type-customized trays and a "monster machine" you could load them into and get them out clean and dried? (This is one of the jobs I've really like to be made to disappear, viscerally, no matter how many people depend on this type of job. I've worked as a dishwasher myself but even as a young boy I realized I'm not gonna stand doing it, so I used all my cunning and reality-distorting abilities to get out of it to a better position in less than 3 days).
- bdunbar 14y agoThey do have those. I've used them. They're pretty cool: lots of steam flying around. But they are not cheap: my aunt couldn't afford one for her deli, for example, but she could afford me! But it's still going to be someone's job to load the thing up, and for manual intervention on pieces that can't be blasted, or need extra scraping.
- vl 14y agoThere are such machines. It's basically a really really large dishwasher with conveyer belt. Still, loading and unloading is a full time job.
- Spooky23 14y agoThat kind of equipment is expensive. Dishwashers, not so much. Many times, dishwashers are under the table workers anyway. In high school I was paid $10/hour in the 90's to unload wagons full of hay and stack them in a barn. There are machines that will bale, load, and stack hay. But they cost like $80k and require a modern tractor that costs $150k new. The farmers I worked for used a tractor from the mid-1950's, and didn't have enough land to generate the cash flow necessary to pay for the equipment. So they paid about $10-12k/summer for people to do the work manually.