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How does this fix the fast food problem? 1) Who will clean the machines well every night? 2) Really? Try to answer 1 honestly. 3) How will keep the tables clean

How does this fix the fast food problem? 1) Who will clean the machines well every night? 2) Really? Try to answer 1 honestly. 3) How will keep the tables clean, as well as the messes from terrible idiot customers who no longer believe they should clean up a mess they make (at least partially until getting help from employee)? 4) When I mean clean, I don't mean rubbing the table with microquat (or equivalent) and knocking the food and crumbs all over the seating surface. I mean cleaning it so that you would comfortably (and by you I mean more than 50 % of the people) lick the surface of the table. It takes hot soapy water, effort, and technique - all things that seem to be missing from restaurants (fast and many not-so-fast). 5) Terrible mopping, etc. The big problem isn't keeping cheap sh*tty food cheap, it's keeping the restaurants clean enough you don't feel dirty when you leave. That is a social and managerial problem, and you don't fix it with magical meat grinder machine.

malandrew 13y ago
Easy, take all the parts that need to be cleaned and convert it into disposable laminated paper product or plastic. The employee at the end of the night just removes the dirty ones and replaces it with clean ones. The tubes for example could be disposable. The conveyer belt would have to have a wax paper or laminated sheet wrapped around the belt and affixed in place. The only thing that would have to be cleaned is the cooking surface and grinding mechanism, which should be trivial. You basically would need one employee to fill the device hoppers with fresh ingredients in the morning, babysit the device for the day adding more ingredients as necessary and then break the machine down at night and set it up again for the following day. I estimate 20 minutes labor in the morning and 40-60 at night. A huge savings for the ability to pump out 3600 decent burgers over a 10 hour work day.

malandrew 13y ago

Easy, take all the parts that need to be cleaned and convert it into disposable laminated paper product or plastic. The employee at the end of the night just removes the dirty ones and replaces it with clean ones. The tubes for example could be disposable. The conveyer belt would have to have a wax paper or laminated sheet wrapped around the belt and affixed in place. The only thing that would have to be cleaned is the cooking surface and grinding mechanism, which should be trivial. You basically would need one employee to fill the device hoppers with fresh ingredients in the morning, babysit the device for the day adding more ingredients as necessary and then break the machine down at night and set it up again for the following day. I estimate 20 minutes labor in the morning and 40-60 at night. A huge savings for the ability to pump out 3600 decent burgers over a 10 hour work day.