Automation is posed as a labor shortage solution, but workers say robots are making their jobs — and food — worse.
  • Robot chefs are replacing humans at some South Korean highway restaurants.
  • Tech companies say robots can help solve labor shortage in an aging nation.
  • Workers say their roles have been downgraded from chefs to cleaning staff.
  • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    4 days ago

    i think its more the social tolerance of what is acceptable food to eat is more lax than the tolerance of what is an acceptably clean dish is. even automatic dishwashers dont clean perfectly without some level of human intervention.

    • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
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      2 days ago

      social tolerance of what is acceptable food to eat is more lax than the tolerance of what is an acceptably clean dish is

      If I were to wish that it weren’t, the tolerance for the clean dish part will increase instead.