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by Unseelie 5577 days ago
Three hundred Thousand?

Assuming the 300k is the total cost of the machine, that's replacing, in a shop open 16 hours a day, 365 days a year, a machine that lives for over six years.

Six years, without maintenance...

Furthermore, a small sandwitch shop (a subway franchise) is worth only 90 to 300 thousand dollars. You're suggesting adding a machine worth the cost of the entire shop, on a very high end shop.

You may be able to build an arm that can make sandwitches, but selling it to firms over cheap minimum wage labor (which is easily replaceable and already has all the software necessary for the process...