Squeeze My Lemon

When life gives you lemons, the old adage suggests you make lemonade. But what happens when life gives you 1.6 million pounds of lemons? Apparently, you let the robots do the work. Bloomberg (Gift Article): Chick-fil-A’s Lemon-Squeezing Robots Are Saving 10,000 Hours of Work. “The lemonade factory shows how restaurants are using automation to improve efficiency and wring more sales out of their stores as competition intensifies for diners and labor. Nearly half of quick-service chains say they’re understaffed.”

+ Inside Zildjian, a 400-year-old cymbal-making company in Massachusetts.