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"... staff members at restaurants were responsible for squeezing the lemons, which sometimes resulted in injured fingers... By taking the task out of the staff’s hands and streamlining it through automation, the company hopes to make working at its locations more appealing..."
(Fox Business article, 01/09/2025)

is not just about cutting labor cost. It makes the workplace more favorable to workers and improves employee retention. That's crucial in this unstable labor market.

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Chick-fil-A's lemon-squeezing robots cut over 10,000 labor hours per day: report Chick-fil-A's lemon-squeezing site north of Los Angeles has cut nearly 10,000 hours of work per day by processing lemons into lemon juice later used for lemonade.

The latest blog post in our series about lean manufacturing's waste is available now. WAITING in a process hurts worker productivity, disrupts production schedules, and it can lead to quality issues as downstream workers struggle to make up time.

GSG has solutions to reduce WAITING waste in your factory. Connect with your experienced rep to learn more.

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WAITING, a component of lean manufacturing’s DOWNTIME waste, reduces final product value by reducing productivity, increasing cycle times and increasing risk of defects hurrying work in downstream processes. Excessive idle time during production processes reduces worker productivity, disrupts schedules and delays orders.