An automated, unstaffed restaurant? That is exactly what McDonald's is currently testing in White Settlement (Texas). A robot serves the food to your table.



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- "I spent 10 years as a worker, now I manage 120 hectares of citrus fruit, stone fruit and strawberries"
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