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This Robot Wants to Make Your Lunch

Automation has crept into the way all kinds of products are manufactured, but machines have also been making inroads into a different type of industry: food services. Beyond touch screens and self checkouts taking over jobs once done by humans, restaurants and fast food chains are experimenting with robots to make your pizza and assemble your salad. Bloomberg Businessweek contributor <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/ASNHhIalbuw/elizabeth-g-dunn">Elizabeth Dunn</a> joins this episode to talk about her reporting on Sweetgreen, a salad chain that’s taking its first leap into a largely automated experience in a Chicago-area location. And restaurant reporter <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/AUy5-DTjSI4/daniela-sirtoricortina">Daniela Sirtori-Cortina</a> looks at the public-facing side of restaurant automation. Read more: <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-05-17/sweetgreen-tests-salad-making-robots-at-new-illinois-store">Sweetgreen Tests Robots to Make Faster, More Efficient Sad Desk Salads</a> Listen to The Big Take podcast every weekday and subscribe to our daily newsletter: <a href="https://bloom.bg/3F3EJAK">https://bloom.bg/3F3EJAK</a>  Have questions or comments for Wes and the team? Reach us at <a href="mailto:bigtake@bloomberg.net">bigtake@bloomberg.net</a>.See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

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