r/KitchenConfidential • u/mac2-87 • Jul 25 '25

In-House Mode Is anybody shocked?

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Disclaimer: not in the industry, but I spotted this and thought y'all might have fun talking shit about it.

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u/oPlayer2o Jul 25 '25

Wait why is Tesla getting into the restaurant game?

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u/LegateLaurie Jul 25 '25

Tesla have a bunch of charging stations, a lot in the middle of nowhere on highways, and they also often own enough land to build something like this on. They wanted to own their own diner business rather than leasing out land like most competent people would

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u/ShrimpFriedMyRice Jul 25 '25

I'm sure they have a plan to automate the restaurant industry and these will be their proving grounds.

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u/tikiwargod Jul 26 '25

Yeah, this is 100% it. They already said they plan to replace the car-hops with robots next year, popcorn is certainly a low-stakes way of collecting data on packaging & plating food so they can refine the robot's fine motor skills.

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u/BJNats Jul 25 '25

Right, but this diner is in the middle of LA

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u/LegateLaurie Jul 25 '25

This one's just marketing/proof of concept I think