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"It's taken a little too long in my opinion," said Daniel Busby, 33, a fry cook at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel and Casino operated by Caesars, before the deal was reached.

He went to high school in Magnolia, Ark. After graduating, he worked as a fry cook at a local restaurant.

A number of restaurant chains have adopted the robotic fry cook, including Jack in the Box in San Diego, White Castle in the Midwest and CaliBurger on the West Coast, Bell said.

Previously, even a magnifying glass couldn’t capture those subtle plays-on-words and puns printed on the newspaper held by the fry cook.

Fans have tapped into the old habits of a fry cook, air-frying anything they get hold of and hoping it works.