“The automated restaurant reflects many companies’ challenges with a dwindling labor pool and rising wages. Continuing technology upgrades reduce the required numbers of employees – think of self-checkout that is now prevalent at big-box stores and supermarkets and also the robotic fry cooks in use at certain Jack in the Box locations. Some labor experts have indicated 10 million jobs face extinction because of automation during the next few years, according to CBS.” – Franchise Wire, December 26, 2022