AS PEOPLE PUSH THAT $15 MINIMUM WAGE THING THEY MAY WANT TO READ THIS: Robot Serves Up 360 Hamburgers Per Hour. “San Francisco-based Momentum Machines claim that using Alpha will save a restaurant enough money that it pays for itself in a year, and it enables the restaurant to spend about twice as much on ingredients as they normally would – so they can buy the gourmet stuff. Saving money with Alpha is pretty easy to imagine. You don’t even need cashiers or servers. Customers could just punch in their order, pay, and wait at a dispensing window.”