EVERYONE IS WATCHING THE FRYER ROBOT. THE JOB THAT ACTUALLY DISAPPEARED WAS THE CASHIER, AND A TOUCHSCREEN DID IT.
Fry robots have been the future of fast food since about 2018. They are in a handful of locations. Meanwhile the ordering kiosk went into tens of thousands of restaurants and nobody made a single viral clip about it.
That is the pattern. The dull software automation wins quietly while everybody argues about the arm.
The fryer is still worth doing though, for one reason nobody mentions. Hot oil burns are one of the biggest injury lines in the industry, and injury lines show up on the insurance bill every year.
So it is not a speed play. It is a claims play, same as demolition and roofing.
Which job in your industry got automated years ago without anyone noticing?