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Making your own drink at a restaurant is not really an option. Human bartenders are hit and miss in terms of quality and consistency, but there's another pressu
by err4nt 3y ago
Making your own drink at a restaurant is not really an option. Human bartenders are hit and miss in terms of quality and consistency, but there's another pressure in human bartending that I wonder if would not be present with metered robots that account for usage and wastage at the level of individual drinks rather than at the level of a work shift. It seems pretty commonplace that liquor bottles are weighed before and after a shift, to measure theft and wastage, so they can figure out who may be giving out free drinks, or taking liquor, etc. This means if a bartender makes a mistake earlier in a shift, they may try to shortchange people later in the same shift so their weights come back okay at the end of the shift, but this is accomplished by overcharging the later customers. I would hope with a robot bartender that I would get exactly what I paid for each time.
- iancmceachern 3y agoBut that's exactly the point I'm making. The slight differences in each drink, the chaos, the humanity of it all, the Wabi-sabi is what makes the beauty of life. I would take that any day over a robotic alcohol prescription that is identical each time. It's the same thing with batista vs vending machine coffee. One is a celebrated art form, one is not. The practical difference in the product may not be the big difference, it's there, but it's more. It's not that I don't know that a robot would be mote precise, consistent, steal and complain less, on and on. I agree. I just think those things are features not bugs.