A US burger joint has done away with chefs by employing an army of robots to grill, slice, grind, mix, season and serve their cooked-to-order burgers.

The Creator restaurant boasts the ‘#freshestburgerever’ with buns, onions and tomatoes sliced to order, a choice of five cheeses and freshly ground beef – all for just six dollars (about £4.60).

The diner’s website claims “we spend more on ingredients than any other burger at our price point.

“Our mission is to reduce the cost of high quality food so we’re selling burgers for 6 bucks. Let’s break the normal cost equation for restaurants.”

According to restaurateurs at the forefront of the robot-chef trend, machines carry out repetitive, high-stress jobs better than humans.

But it’s not bad news for everyone in the restaurant industry – with robots carrying out the tricky tasks, humans are freed up to deal with more customers – helping them decide what to eat and providing service with a smile.

And those to have tried the robo-burgers are big fans.

With a solid 4 out of 5 stars on Yelp, Creator boasts burgers so good that you'll forget you're eating food don't actually like – "I usually don't eat pickles in my burger but the burger in this place was so good that it made me forget I was eating pickles."

Another five star reviewer raved about the burgers "Creator's innovative brilliant burger robot is tirelessly working to serve you with consistent, quality controlled, juicy, top-chef curated incredible value meal that not only look "ROBOT PERFECT" but delicious, perfectly cooked and assembled to science."

But American food writer, Eve Turow-Paul told USA Today he was weary of robots in the kitchen.

He said that although AI chefs could be the “democratisation of good food”, it will lead to a “huge displacement of food workers over the next 10 years, or less.

“No-one will be flipping burgers anymore,” he said.

While Creator is cutting costs in the kitchen in order to spend more on fresh ingredients, Turow-Paul worries the future of robotic fast-food could see savings going straight into the pockets of restaurant owners.

This would have a particularly demonising effect on low-income restaurant workers, most of whom are under 25.

However, the novelty of futuristic food and robo-chefs is yet to wear off, as 2019 will see the launch of the world’s first ‘robotic kitchen’, developed by UK scientists and supported by “an iTunes library of recipes.”

There’s no denying that millennials love the idea of a tech-focused future, with a number of robo-restaurants popping up all over the world.

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