>Robots for the next decade will certainly increase costs of chefs. You know short order cooks at most restaurants get paid close to nothing right? 10/hr = 20K/

>Robots for the next decade will certainly increase costs of chefs. You know short order cooks at most restaurants get paid close to nothing right? 10/hr = 20K/yr = 10% the cost of today's robots, and probably 2% factoring maintenance. Robots don't just work 40 hour weeks. They'll work as many hours as the store is open. They also don't require benefits, the employer doesn't have to pay unemployment insurance, and they don't have to pay social security taxes. In addition, there are harder to quantify benefits like the fact that robots don't call in sick, call in drunk, etc, and they'll probably be less likely to do things like drop or burn food. When you factor in all of that, a better estimate of the cost of a human compared to the cost of a robot would be more like 25%. The robot starts looking better. And the price of technology tends to come down over time.