Posted on 09/15/2015 11:00:05 AM PDT by dennisw
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — There’s no one at this new San Francisco vegetarian restaurant to take your lunch order or tell you when its ready.
Instead, you’ll depend on machines for a fully automated dining experience straight out of an episode of The Jetsons.
Welcome to Eatsa, a new futuristic fast food chain opening Monday in the Embarcadero (121 Spear Street) offering quick, healthy food for about $7 — a deal compared to other lunch time options in San Francisco.
Customers tap their meal selections on an iPad or their smartphone and pay electronically. No cash is taken here. Then when the order is ready, hands slide the meal into a “cubby,” which lights up with the customer’s name. The plan is for it to be ready in less than minutes from the time the order is placed.
Along the way, customers may only encounter a single “concierge” to assist with ordering questions, but besides that you’re on your own. The dozen or so cooks remain unseen behind the wall of cubbies.
(Excerpt) Read more at sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com ...
Wow they are really setting the bar high, would that goal be met if they served the order in say 59 minutes? Or less than 59 seconds?
It was there into the 90s, actually. I used to use it because I worked at 43rd & 2nd and lived at 44th & 2nd.
Works out so well, no people, no payroll taxes, no social security taxes, no downstream spending, an excellent end result..........not!
LOL! My fading memory just pictured you living above Barleycorns. Close thiugh IIRC.
In the photo in post #24 everyone has a cup of coffee. Imagine how long they would linger if smartFones, tablets and laptops were around back then. Not even brick sized cell phone back then which is a crime against humanity!!!
Never above Barleycorns! The smell alone would kill me.
I lived uptown for about 27 years than moved to midtown - the Beaux Arts, actually. A beautiful old building but was kinda down on its luck, lol.
All you can eat - was great!
(I ate all I could eat)
And the four men at the table were probably strangers to one another. NYC eat and run.
Smart phones with free wi-fi just don’t make for high turnover, key to profitable lunch sales.
But … but … what about all those ‘servers’ who need $15 per hour jobs?
Wonder if they have an app ...
“NYC eat and run”
At least they have tables. At a five-sided building in Wash DC, you eat standing up.
There are tables and chairs in the food area of the main concourse. The old cafeteria went away when the building was renovated, now it is all ‘fast food’ joints, no more decent meals.
This is what a $15 min wage looks like. Stuff it, SEIU!
From the article: “The dozen or so cooks remain unseen behind the wall of cubbies.”
Aside from the fact that there are no robots cooking any food, this article is completely accurate.
They’ve only dispensed with the order takers.
Once the food compartment opens, why can’t someone make off with someone else’s order?
Shucks - I was so looking forward to eating there but I only have a “dumb phone” and pay with cash. Guess that leaves me out. So sad - another wonderful dining experience I guess I’ll have to miss!
“So, let’s have another cup of coffee,
“And let’s have another piece of pie.”
Ah, no “soup Nazi” to keep things, and turnovers, moving.
Did they have one at toity-toid and toid?
All you can eat - was great!After, I walked all I could walk. Talked all I could talk. Laughed all I could laugh. Watched soccer all that I could watch soccer. FReeped all that I could FReep and slept all I could sleep.
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