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Chipotle tests tortilla chip-making robots to combat labor shortage

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A Chipotle Mexican Grill sign is seen in the Park Slope neighborhood on April 29, 2021, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. A robot will soon be making your tortilla chips at Chipotle. Addressing his company's partnership with Chipotle, Miso Robotics CEO Michael Bell told "Cavuto: Coast to Coast," Friday the tortilla chip-making robot will combat the labor shortage in the U.S. and suggested that "automation is the solution." "The restaurant industry had a labor gap before the pandemic… the pandemic just accelerated this big gap between the number of jobs and the available labor," he remarked. Bell stressed that the labor shortage isn't "going away soon," and mentioned that there is a big demand to automate tasks in restaurants.