Melbourne cafe owners to replace baristas with automated milk steaming machines 

Well, there goes all the gender studies and arts student jobs.

Cheaper coffee, but your tax will go up to pay for the people out of work.

Melbourne wont have restaurants to cook with gas soon. What a clown show that place is

Robots came for the factory line worker, then for the checkout operators and now for the coffee servers.

Oops! 😉 The law of unintended consequences. Keep voting left, baristas!

“New Age cafes getting rid of barristers!” - Hilarious fail-I’m writing this as he’s stealing my thunder!!

I spent 4 weeks in France last year, drank a lot of coffee, none of which was made by a Barista. Every cup came from an automatic coffee maker.

That joke fell flat

The whole experience is watching the coffee being made. Sad we are eliminating the human touch.

we must resist these anti-human robot machines

Then they'll install automated checkouts that only take cards.

Are those automatic milk steaming machines going to have dyed hair and nose rings?

Damn, those baristas must be pretty steamed.

About time. Nothing worse than waiting ages for a bloody over priced flavourless coffee...

I bet they will be like the McDonalds ice cream machines tied to a contractor, and paying exorbitant maintainance costs.

Just more people out of work.

Why? GenZ loves barista's meet and greet. Otherwise it would be a plain Library

I make the best coffee at home and it’s the cheapest coffee😂❤️🇺🇸

Bought a coffee machine, never looked back and I don’t buy coffee anymore. It’s fun to make, and it’s made for my taste

Well all these peanuts 🥜 voted for Labor or Greens. Now the rooster 🐓 is coming home 🏡 😅😅😅😅

Boycott them all. It’s getting that=way that NOONE is gonna have jobs.

I worked as a barista by myself at the only coffee house that stayed open during C0vid…defying the county health department…we fought non stop with them…it was awesome!!

Alphabet people it’s amazing how much money they waist on this crap

I can get very good machine coffee at my local petrol station for $1 a cup. Why would I go to their cafe and pay $6?

Basic Living Income is coming. They are trying to figure out on how much to give each month.

There goes Australia's reputation for great coffee.

Not all baristas are created equal and can make or break a cafe. I don’t think replacing humans with machines will keep the Melbourne coffee culture alive. They won’t pass on the savings to consumers and there will be no reason to go to the cafe over the gas station for coffee. Depending on the machine, the coffee isn’t always consistently good and comes out watery due to it flushing out tubes whilst making your coffee to maintain itself. Something a barista does after making a coffee and not during and into the same cup.

I don't see the problem but then again I don't buy coffee from those places I make my own

My office already has a coffee machine, so presumably it wouldn't be worth going out anymore?

2 American coffe snobs that are travelling around Australia said the best coffee they had was in Perth, not Melbourne..and they are barristers by trade 😀 their channel is called one pack wonders and it was a few episodes back when they were in Geraldton i think

So, no more spit and 💩 in the fast food around the world? And it's cheaper? Darn.😂

I rarely buy coffee. I have my own machine, but, part of getting a coffee is the interaction and the government wonders why people can't afford to pay their bills? work is getting harder to find.

The interaction with the barista is probably the largest part of why I go to these places. It’s part of my daily escape.

Good idea. You wait for ages in a coffee shop selling overrated product.

Are they not just signing up to a subscription to the company that sells the milk foaming machine that needs to be maintained and serviced and supplied by that company?

That is good as robots are far cheaper to maintain than greedy workers always demanding a raise and not putting in the extra work to make up for it.

No jobs no customers

And people wonder why the younger generation don’t have the social skills from customer service and relating with customers in person???

Soon there will be nobody at the restaurants

Try PAYING for a headline writer, NOT a FREE Intern OK👍🇦🇺

It's Danistan!!!

The dude who felt compelled to cut into the news story for his "hilarious" joke, was a total misfire. Bad read on the room, guy.

I go through the self serve checkout and tell the staff member I am a bit deaf and cannot hear the beep which causes me to mis scan so they need to scan my trolley

Yeah sure the proces wil drop. Maybe in the short term before they sneak them back up again. How about not being lazy and make your own.

I thought it was just spelled odd…cause y’all speak with this crazy Ozzy accent 😂😆🤣

The WEF has what to do with people with no jobs for excess people, video games and drugs

Perhaps the unemployed baristas can throw their wooden clogs into the automated milk frothing machines.

Better put up the 7-11 sign otherwise the ACCC will go after these shameless cafes. The main issue here is that Barristers now have no job to go to after AI replaced them.

'Barista' LMAO, someone that makes a cup of coffee from a machine.

Is this the cost of a living wage in Australia like it is in the USA? Fast-food places in California are closing by the hundred because of the exorbitant minimum wage costs.

Be real here, coffee prices won't go down. Peoples jobs will.

A barista has always been a pretentious appellation for a cafe worker. I'm all for machine coffee. Bring back true artisanal apprentices and classical arts. Then there will be plenty of work for people and they can follow their muse and maybe do something they like or are inspired to do.

At least the coffee will be made properly each time and won’t have to wait 20 minutes for a takeaway coffee. Nothing worse the a kid making the coffee that doesn’t care and overheats the milk and burns the coffee shots.

Prices won’t go down for us, corporate profits will go up

Who cares,get yourself a good coffee machine for your home and take a cup of coffee into work like I do. The cafe stores coffee is very hit and miss these days,rare to find a place that consistency produces a good cup.

if I must buy a coffee made by an automatic machine, then I might as well just buy it from 7-Eleven for $2.

0:33 ......This is quite possibly the lowest point in televised history ... It should have been edited out .

It is no surprise. I will not be surprised to see robots telling the news one day.

Good, maybe they’ll make the coffee hot for a change

Make your own coffee and food it’s not necessary to buy fast everyday

What are all of the people with gender studies degrees going to do for a living now?

I don’t know of any company who cuts out the most expensive component of service and pass the savings onto the customer. Just look at publishers. The cost of materials/Distribution etc of books is large, yet to buy a digital copy it’s pretty much the same cost as a tangible book. Oh, and let’s not forgot the banks with their ‘use an ATM it’s so much cheaper’. Yeah, right!😂

This will be a bonus as I don’t have to look at people with nose rings and face piercings.

Can you talk to an automated milk mechanism ???

They can deliver Pizza and take away food.

The Latte Debate

just import Italian baristas... better, quicker coffee and no cappuccino after 11 am 😂

WHAT A WASTE OF BRAIN TIME..

So they should too. As an electrical tradesman who works in process automation there is absolutely nothing a machine cannot do when it comes to making a simple coffee compared to a human. It’s all a wank that a barista is better. Just like hand shaping surfboards. For years hand shapers sold computer made surfboards and nobody ever noticed the difference. Get those nancy baristas in a coal mine or the military where we need them.

Boycott them. BS. We all know the Coffee will NOT be cheaper.

If the Italians (in Italy not Lygon street) can sell coffee for €2 then it's ridiculous that Aussies are paying $6 - 8. All because of these called "art". What a gimic.

Slowly but surely the human race is being replaced by AI, and robots.

Taking away jobs, good on ya! They'd keep the coffe at the same price

AI Talking Head News Reporters, coming to a screen near you... 😳

I feel sorry for people but not for an AH like DMS who moved to Melbourne to sell his stupid finger paintings as a 40 yr old barista

Long black is a real coffee

I love Sky but she shits me to tears and I cant handle her

Workplaces have been getting more efficient but the productivity gains rarely flow back to the worker who made the gains possible you just end up getting more work to do being paid by the hour. Likewise the business will see this as an initiative of their doing so they will see it as part of productivity gains which enables higher profits through lower cost of doing business.

Glad i don't drink coffee.

Slowly human reality becomes "i, robot" movie.

When the promise of higher productivity for higher wages means you don't have a job at all. To add, if productivity was improved and you still had a job you would be on the same money and your employer would pocket the extra revenue 99% of the time.

Real coffee lovers drink long black.

Automated / AI is coming for so many jobs

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Now I go to a coffee shop and have to work and pay to get it? Just like Walmart, Lowe’s, and everywhere else. You work to get paid just to work to get your coffee.

this is a non issue. there will still be someone behind the till on minimum wage, the machine replaces the person that pours the coffee which is apparently a 'skilled' job why are we pretending that person actually does something useful that my coffee machine doesn't already do for free ffs

I object to that flat white, your honour !!

Do those machines able to create art coffee too? 🤭

Looks like Sky News Australia is trying to beat US MNSBC as the most useless show on TV

and YOU are footing the cost of the welfare.... I would PREFER that people WORK for their $$ instead of collecting welfare. IMO

Less jobs. Self serve registers didn't make groceries cheaper, menu machines at fast food didn't make the food cheaper, this won't make it cheaper. These smaller jobs gives work experience. This makes it harder for teens/young people to gain work experience. I've been saying a universal income will have to happen once too much A.I takes jobs or over certain industries. That or conflict and unrest.

AI doing its job well.

The longer inflation runs and the higher minimum wage rises, the faster automation will be introduced to every workplace.

A machine will get a more consistent temperature/result over a person?!

NO WAY! 😳 More jobs disappearing. Do you really think you'll now pay less for your coffees? I think not.

I’m not sure what makes you think that someone qualified in gender studies can make coffee. I’m sure it’d have to be under the thumb of the patriarchy or some shit.

But what will all those with (insert any word here) Studies degrees do now?

Check out chicks !!! Really! I know it’s a broader Aussie expression but just so you know half the check out staff at Coles and Woolies are blokes 😀

will the milk steamers still be pretentious?

I the coffee stays at the same price