CaliBurger
Hamburger restaurant · Downtown ·
Robot-assisted burger joint with chain-style burgers, fries
Robot-assisted burger joint with chain-style burgers, fries
"CaliBurger is a local burger restaurant where Flippy, the automated robot, was tested. The robot, made by Miso Robotics, is capable of flipping burgers at a high rate and has reportedly been a success, turning out thousands of burgers." - Farley Elliott
"A fast-food burger restaurant in Pasadena that piloted a food-safe robot arm capable of grilling, monitoring, and placing burger patties on buns; the system attracted national attention as an example of frontline kitchen automation." - Steve Holt
"At Los Angeles’s Caliburger, the burger-flipping robot was temporarily taken offline because it was simply too slow, a reminder that automation in restaurants can be more gimmick than efficiency when it doesn’t meet pace requirements." - Chris Fuhrmeister
"I learned that West Coast-style burger chain Caliburger is adding robotic employees: a burger-flipping bot named Flippy will be installed at 50 Caliburger locations." - Chris Fuhrmeister
"At the chain’s Pasadena location, a newly installed burger-flipping robot named Flippy made a high-profile debut touted by the restaurant and its maker as “the future of food,” designed to assist—not replace—kitchen staff using cameras and thermal scanners and part of a planned roll-out of about 50 units. After one regular shift the machine was taken offline for an “extended break” when the public overran the store and demand exceeded Flippy’s stated 2,000-burgers-per-day capacity; the company powered it down to install upgrades and retrain employees in how to work with the robot. Management noted timing and coordination with human cooks were challenges—staff need to adapt to Flippy’s schedule—so the unit will return after adjustments, with a sign currently promising it will be “grilling patties again soon.”" - Clint Rainey
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