Posted on 12/26/2014 5:08:25 AM PST by lowbridge
Robots have replaced human workers in a restaurant in China. Lu Dike, Owner of a family restaurant in the northeast China provence of Zhejiang said he is opting to save on employee wages by foregoing traditional servers and using robots instead. Sound familiar?
Besides the savings Lu has experienced, the robots have become an enormous tourist attraction. The automated bots take orders and speak to customers with their forty phrase Mandarin Chinese vocabulary.
Each bot navigates the restaurant by sensing magnetic strips in the floor and using optical sensing systems that keeps them from running into walls or people.
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So what do you tip with? Washers, nuts, bolts?
The primary fact to be taken from this article is that the owner is a Chicap....... capitalism is working in China
Cheers!
Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!!
Read the sign. NO tipping the server.
(...they're robots. They won't get up again.)
>>The primary fact to be taken from this article is that the owner is a Chicap....... capitalism is working in China
Lets see. $9400 per robot, plus power, plus maintenance and cleaning. You need to purchase as many as you think you will ever need at one time, so during slow times, many of your robot waiter force is idle. They can’t be used to anything but taking orders and delivering food. Do they buss tables or clean? Can they roll silverware in napkins? Can they take an order from a deaf person who is just pointing at the menu?
How much do they pay a waiter in China anyway?
This is more novelty than capitalism.
>>(...they’re robots. They won’t get up again.)
Exterminate. Exterminate!
Today’s novelty is tomorrow’s workforce. I can easily see a base staff of robotic waiters, supplemented by a few humans at busy times. Democrat policies are pricing people right out of a job!
I can only view food preparation and delivery by machine as a net plus, resulting in cleaner, more consistently prepared food. Unfortunately, we’re still a long way off.
“Read the sign. NO tipping the server.
(...they’re robots. They won’t get up again.)”
Very funny! Thanks for the laugh.
I hope the robots are slow, surly, tatted up and spit in my food. It just wouldn’t be same restaurant experience without that.
This will be great for the U.S. Assuming the robots can be taught to buy stuff too.
” Read the sign. NO tipping the server.
(...they’re robots. They won’t get up again.)”
Gives a whole new spin on the phrase, “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!”
And they never call in sick on a busy day. :)
Wait until the demoRat pols here slap an ‘equivalency tax’ on owning each robot. Then they will grant them voting rights and automatic Dem registration. Then you can marry a robot and it can have spousal benefits.
Just wait and see what lunacy awaits here in lieberal world.
+1
In the late 60s I was served my cheeseburger and fries by a model train at some diner.
Automated food service, this will become an issue when the libtards force the 15$ an hour wages. The Industry will automate their businesses and lay off the people and only have a set up crew and that is when they start complaining about all the liberal agenda from racism to being they are taking our jobs away!
Ah, Seattle, have you folks heard of “the Law of Unintended Consequences”? You have now and I will bet there are more than a few businesses that will replace staff with robots.
Note to Seattle minimum wage workers: The good news is you are mandated a $15 per hour wage; the bad news is you’re paying more taxes, have shorter hours, you pay for free previous perks (parking and insurance), and your employer intends to replace your job with a machine. Welcome to the ranks of the unemployed. Don’t you feel better knowing you’re — well, used to be — making $15 per hour at your former job?
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