Miso Featured in Wall Street Journal: Amid the Labor Shortage, Robots Step in to Make the French Fries | Miso

Written by stephengoldbytes | Aug 7, 2021 9:00:00 AM
The Wall Street Journal’s Christopher Mims went to Merrillville, Indiana to visit Flippy at White Castle #42:

“In a White Castle just southeast of Chicago, the 100-year-old purveyor of fast food has played host for the past year to an unusual, and unusually hardworking, employee: a robotic fry cook.

Flippy, as the robot is known, is no gimmick, says Jamie Richardson, a White Castle vice president. It works 23 hours a day (one hour is reserved for cleaning) and has operated almost continuously for the past year, manning—or robot-ing—the fry station at White Castle No. 42…

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