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Robots Serving Healthy, Cheap Fast Food At This New San Francisco Restaurant
sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/ ^ | August 31, 2015 6:53 PM

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 ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: california; demagogicparty; liberalhypocrisy; minimumwage; sanfrancisco
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To: dennisw
The plan is for it to be ready in less than minutes from the time the order is placed.

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?

21 posted on 09/15/2015 11:30:00 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Covenantor

It was there into the 90s, actually. I used to use it because I worked at 43rd & 2nd and lived at 44th & 2nd.


22 posted on 09/15/2015 11:30:45 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I'd like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: unixfox
But I thought they wanted to pay all of those poor fast food workers $15.00 an hour.

Works out so well, no people, no payroll taxes, no social security taxes, no downstream spending, an excellent end result..........not!

23 posted on 09/15/2015 11:32:44 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Paladin2

24 posted on 09/15/2015 11:33:10 AM PDT by Hugin ("First thing--get yourself a fire"arm!" Sheriff Ed Galt, Last Man Standing.)
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To: miss marmelstein

LOL! My fading memory just pictured you living above Barleycorns. Close thiugh IIRC.


25 posted on 09/15/2015 11:38:00 AM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled-...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: Covenantor

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!!!


26 posted on 09/15/2015 11:39:33 AM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: Covenantor

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.


27 posted on 09/15/2015 11:40:24 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I'd like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: dennisw
We just got home from a restaurant. Zhous Five, the largest Asian buffet in Berlin.

All you can eat - was great!
(I ate all I could eat)

28 posted on 09/15/2015 11:42:13 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: dennisw

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.


29 posted on 09/15/2015 11:43:44 AM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled-...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: dennisw

But … but … what about all those ‘servers’ who need $15 per hour jobs?


30 posted on 09/15/2015 11:55:37 AM PDT by Vesparado (The American people know what they want and they deserve to get it good and hard --- HL Mencken)
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To: dennisw

Wonder if they have an app ...


31 posted on 09/15/2015 11:56:35 AM PDT by Vesparado (The American people know what they want and they deserve to get it good and hard --- HL Mencken)
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To: Covenantor

“NYC eat and run”

At least they have tables. At a five-sided building in Wash DC, you eat standing up.


32 posted on 09/15/2015 11:58:25 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: tumblindice

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.


33 posted on 09/15/2015 12:14:29 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: dennisw

This is what a $15 min wage looks like. Stuff it, SEIU!


34 posted on 09/15/2015 12:27:03 PM PDT by sevlex
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To: dennisw

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?


35 posted on 09/15/2015 12:36:54 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: DannyTN

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!


36 posted on 09/15/2015 12:49:50 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: Hugin

“So, let’s have another cup of coffee,
“And let’s have another piece of pie.”


37 posted on 09/15/2015 1:50:21 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: Covenantor

Ah, no “soup Nazi” to keep things, and turnovers, moving.


38 posted on 09/15/2015 5:37:25 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: miss marmelstein
It was there into the 90s, actually. I used to use it because I worked at 43rd & 2nd and lived at 44th & 2nd.

Did they have one at toity-toid and toid?

39 posted on 09/15/2015 5:45:25 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Berlin_Freeper
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.
40 posted on 09/16/2015 12:16:22 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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