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Yahoo Finance: These fast-food workers are earning $25 an hour with paid vacation—as long as they work alongside a giant burger-slinging robot arm


Kernel has a 100% employee retention rate, in part because its automated technology makes staff members’ lives easier.

As orders come in online, the Kuka robot plucks food items off a holding tray, places them in an oven, and passes them onto its human coworker on the assembly line. “The Infinite Kitchen continues to deliver many benefits to our operating model, such as higher throughput, better order accuracy, portioning consistency and substantially lower team member turnover,” CFO Mitch Reback said in the earnings call. “This is the first restaurant job I’ve had that doesn’t leave me broken or beaten at the end of the day,” Kernel staff member Carlos De La Concha told Fortune over email.

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