Fast food companies continue to face staff shortages and wage inflation. While many use self-serve ordering kiosks and other tech tools to automate customer-facing jobs, more are turning to robots to staff the kitchen. White Castle is testing a robot fry cook called Flippy. It works 23 hours a day (1 hour for cleaning) and has run the fry station in Merrillville, IN for the past year. They are partnering with Miso Robotics to roll out an improved version, Flippy 2.0, at ten more restaurants. Del Taco Restaurants Inc. is also partnering with Miso to develop a drink machine. The goal is when a customer makes an order, the system will take a cup, add ice, pour the liquid, snap on a lid and deliver the drink at the end of a conveyor. If you want to improve kitchen operations or add automation, MOSIMTEC simulation modeling can help. For a Fortune 500 provider, we built a kitchen simulation model to analyze staffing, inventory, menu mix, financials and customer turnaround metrics. For another large provider, we built a simulation-based app to perform cook/process time sensitivity analysis, then added assembly, kitchen operations, layout representation, customer behavior and staff utilization for rollout across each of their restaurants. MOSIMTEC can help. Learn more about our quick service restaurant services here: https://mosimtec.com/quick-service-restaurant-simulation/ #modeling and simulation company #quickservicerestaurant #robotics #automation #digitaltwins Read more here: https://www.wsj.com/articles/restaurant-robots-kitchen-labor-shortage-11628290623