To add to your (very good) point, a friend in Copenhagen told me about a German restaurant without waiters (possibly this one: http://www.flixxy.com/high-tech-r

To add to your (very good) point, a friend in Copenhagen told me about a German restaurant without waiters (possibly this one: http://www.flixxy.com/high-tech-restaurant.htm http://www.flixxy.com/high-tech-restaurant.htm). Food is ordered on iPads and served through some sort of automated rail system. The owner anticipated starting a chain, but was surprised to find that business wasn't doing as well as anticipated. It turns out people like interacting with waiters, perhaps in the way people in Japan get like the taxi experience there. Factory workers may be replaced by robots, but service jobs? I'm not so sure.