Americans as a whole are really fucking slow. The slop factory "industry" should have been eighty-sixed for its waste of resources before they ever built the first data center. It's not like the costs weren't known from the start.
Every good Greek restaurant I've ever been to had a kitchen full of Mexican cooks. Most of my favorite Chinese takeout places were run by Koreans. Folks cook food.
Maybe this is the real reason water is so rare in Tank Girl.