Posted on 03/25/2016 11:17:04 AM PDT by TroutStalker
Consumer preferences, reduced technology costs and government policies that increase labor costs are driving a trend toward automation in the restaurant business. If you make something more convenient and less expensive, it tends to catch on.
As recently as the 1960s, gas-station employees would rush to fill your car’s tank, wash the windows, check the oil and put air in the tires. Telephone operators made your long-distance calls and bank tellers cashed your checks. Those jobs now are either gone or greatly diminished.
Today, we reduce jobs whenever we shop on Amazon instead of our local retail outlet, use an Uber app rather than calling a cab dispatcher, order a pizza online, use an airport kiosk to print boarding passes, or scan groceries. Each of these changes in behavior has increased convenience and reduced labor costs—and competitive businesses pass the savings to their customers.
In the restaurant business, the increasing impact of technology doesn’t mean that a robot will soon roll up to your table and say, “Hi, I’m Trudi4783. I’ll be your automated server today.” But technology can replace certain functions. Touch screens are already transforming the way food is ordered in many restaurants.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
People with skills, and knowledge of how to do necessary things, will have jobs.
Visit an Indian Reservation. You'll see exactly what happens.
Ok, the waitress can be a robot as long as it calls me “hon”, but I want a 4 handed alien as the cook, like in Starwars.
Given the state of peoples genitals, it probbly would be safer.
All jobs, including robot repairs, will be done by robots, and Artificial Intelligence will keep designing smarter and more efficient robots. We'll all die, but the robots will continue doing the jobs we don't have anymore, for as long as the robots last. Which might be until the end of the Earth.
The way forward is now in action in China
Phone aps for transactions call up bots that are web sites of eateries. the buyer calls up his transaction ap and then the eaterie bot menu. he selects the desired menu items anc checks out. His transaction ap knows which auto pay web payment system is in use. It pays and receipt comes to the phone
the buyer shows the phone receipt and picks up his order. Free software and good web transaction capability do the job. There is no need for expensive robot terminals. the hardware already exists!
Citation: Forbes
Need to have parents that instead of just giving kids their phones and money just for breathing/pouting, actually make them get jovs and work for things.
I wonder if CPS now considers that child abuse. I started working at 13.
Not a good omen for the wait staff currently working there.
No we won’t.
Because ROBOTS.
Soooo ... you and Piper called it quits?
We are so screwed.
Because ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.
She kept trying to investigate where I got that power armor.
Wait, when ROBOTS, we will all open casinos?
Yes, but will there be Mexican robots to do the jobs American robots just won’t do?
See Realdoll ...
Thanks, I may check it out (behind on my recommended reading, I admit).
I like the cover... the food doors in the background are about as I remember, except now they look dated. Back then they looked super-modern.
Amazes me when visiting some homes that the teens do not even pick up after themselves, help with the cooking, set the table for dinner or load the dishwasher.
My grandsons do help with these things and when they grumble about having to load the dishwasher they get a chance to wash and dry the dishes by hand and put them away. They also know how to dust, vacuum and do their own laundry. My son tells them he is responsible for raising them so they can function independently, not be their friend. Am sure that CPS in some states would consider his treatment abusive.
Yes. That's all the ROBOTS will allow us to do. And the casinos will all be controlled by robots.
Absolutely! Mainly because they will be contain electronics made by slave labor robots in China.
Oh crap.
And maybe sell cute Native American trinkets in a gift shop.
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