Though food service workers and economists have long worried about the impact technology would have on the restaurant labor ...

Usually, automation is making businesses busier and more profitable, which helps them retain employees, a labor economist ...

Fast-casual restaurant Chipotle is experimenting ... And even more recently, it’s become more likely that a robot is playing a part in your food preparation or delivery. They may take shape ...

However, generally fast-food workers juggle other tasks like greeting customers, sweeping the floor and retrieving supplies from a backroom — which most robots cannot handle, currently.

Chipotle’s big investments are meant to keep the company competitive in a rapidly changing fast-food landscape, and its new robots are designed to handle tedious tasks as the chain looks to ...

The robots will be introduced in two California locations, and rollout will be expanded based on feedback. The Mexican-style fast food chain will introduce “cobots,” or collaborative robots ...

Fast-casual restaurant Chipotle is experimenting with a work station that has ... Ben Zipperer, a low-wage labor market economist at the Economic Policy Institute, said the early fears around ...

as automation and artificial intelligence continue to enter the fast-food industry and raise fears about the supplanting of workers. Chipotle earlier this week announced the debut of the robots at ...

Cal Poly students and staff will have a new food delivery option on campus this year — robots. The university dining department will deploy around 40 food delivery bots this year, as part of a ...