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I'm sure it was wonderful, but the reality is that automation is rapidly changing this business. Check out the restaurant Spyce up in Boston. The orders are tak

I'm sure it was wonderful, but the reality is that automation is rapidly changing this business. Check out the restaurant Spyce up in Boston. The orders are taken by iPads and then robots mix the food. There's only one person who takes it from the robot and hands it to you. They give the person a fancy title (garde manger) to make the job seem important, but I'm guessing they could easily replace the human with an extra bit of robotics. The person's real job is to call the police or the owners if something goes wrong.

t3wggs 7y ago
Most restaurants aren't completely automated yet. You can order on your phone or at a kiosk, but someone still makes it and someone still hands it to you or puts it on your table. Until technology improves, those jobs are still needed for restaurants to operate. Besides, I don't think the article is concerned with that. She says she could easily do more take out or do online ordering. The point is, that restaurants are more than this. They are a fixture in the community. Now that we can't go to any, many people are realizing how important it is to have that third place to share food and congregate.
ac29 7y ago
Automated restaurants are more or less a gimmick right now. They might serve, what, one out of hundred thousand meals? A million? The widely written about, heavily financed semi-automatic pizza company Zume stopped making food before covid-19. The restaurant you linked to is currently closed as well, indicating it isn't any better at providing meals during crises (ironically, many entirely human powered restaurants are still open). Automation is absolutely useful in mass producing things like canned soup, but we are a long, long way off before it can replace the sort of meals that make going out to restaurants memorable occasions.

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I'm sure it was wonderful, but the reality is that automation is rapidly changing this business. Check out the restaurant Spyce up in Boston. The orders are tak

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t3wggs 7y ago
Most restaurants aren't completely automated yet. You can order on your phone or at a kiosk, but someone still makes it and someone still hands it to you or puts it on your table. Until technology improves, those jobs are still needed for restaurants to operate. Besides, I don't think the article is concerned with that. She says she could easily do more take out or do online ordering. The point is, that restaurants are more than this. They are a fixture in the community. Now that we can't go to any, many people are realizing how important it is to have that third place to share food and congregate.
ac29 7y ago
Automated restaurants are more or less a gimmick right now. They might serve, what, one out of hundred thousand meals? A million? The widely written about, heavily financed semi-automatic pizza company Zume stopped making food before covid-19. The restaurant you linked to is currently closed as well, indicating it isn't any better at providing meals during crises (ironically, many entirely human powered restaurants are still open). Automation is absolutely useful in mass producing things like canned soup, but we are a long, long way off before it can replace the sort of meals that make going out to restaurants memorable occasions.