Fully automated restaurant

[Misfit]

http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blo...tsa-a-fully-automated-restaurant-opens-today/

In terms of the front of house experience, it’s fully automated, with all meal ordering done via in-store iPads. Not a human in sight, though there is a team of about five or six back-of-house kitchen staff (or as I like to imagine, magical elves) who are hidden from view and prepare the food. There’s also one attendant on hand to help the tech challenged.

When your meal is ready — in just a few short minutes — it appears in small glass compartments, in a manner that’s reminiscent of the classic mid-20th century automats.

 

[vraiblonde]

I wonder if they researched why the automats went the way of the dinosaur? A few companies have tried to bring them back in metro areas, but all have failed.

Just more hipster nonsense. Don't plan on it coming to a location near you anytime soon, or ever.

 

[BadGirl]

Just like The Jetson's.

 

[Misfit]

I think it will work, my kids already text me their dinner orders. :shrug:

 

[Hodr]

I wonder if they researched why the automats went the way of the dinosaur? A few companies have tried to bring them back in metro areas, but all have failed.

Just more hipster nonsense. Don't plan on it coming to a location near you anytime soon, or ever.

I always thought the concept of the automat was sound, but how do you ensure that the product is fresh, and how to they provide the variety people want?

An automated-automat might just work. Instead of sliding open a window and pulling a premade sandwich of undeterminable age you use your phone or the kiosk to custom order a sandwich. The machine slaps it together and spits it out. I would eat that.

 

[vraiblonde]

I would eat that.

I wouldn't. Bleh. However:

I think it will work, my kids already text me their dinner orders. :shrug:

This made me remember who we're talking about as a prime demographic: social media addicts who prefer digital friends to flesh and blood ones. Who text instead of call because actually hearing another human's voice irritates them.

So I revise my initial opinion - it actually might fly.

 

[Pete]

I wouldn't. Bleh. However:



This made me remember who we're talking about as a prime demographic: social media addicts who prefer digital friends to flesh and blood ones. Who text instead of call because actually hearing another human's voice irritates them.

So I revise my initial opinion - it actually might fly.

Fogo de Robot, where R2D2 style robots wander with skewers of meat.............

 

[GURPS]

I wonder if they researched why the automats went the way of the dinosaur?

Automats fell victim to consumers’ changing tastes. Perhaps people tired of cafeteria-style food. Many no longer ate a full meal at lunch. Americans moved into the suburbs and didn’t come downtown as often, so night business at Automats fell too. With lower labor and food costs, the modern kind of fast-food restaurants, such as McDonald’s, White Castle and theme-food emporiums, competed too successfully.

In the 1970s Horn & Hardart replaced its dying restaurants with Burger King franchises. The generation that ate at these new fast-food outlets didn’t miss the charm of Automats’ fancy fixtures and diverse menu. Upscale power lunchers had no use for Automats’ simple fare.

The last Automat closed in New York City in 1991, lamented by those who remembered what the chain had stood for: quality, service and cleanliness.



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[libertytyranny]

Fogo de Robot, where R2D2 style robots wander with skewers of meat.............

I would prefer that. that way I don't get the judgey stares from the guys when I ask them for the rarest cut and to bring me my 98475647465 little lambchop

 

[Pete]

I would prefer that. that way I don't get the judgey stares from the guys when I ask them for the rarest cut and to bring me my 98475647465 little lambchop

Or when you turn down the dude with the chicken 100 times holding out for the filet dude.

 

[CrashTest]

Is this really much different than what's been in place at WaWa for years, except at WaWa, you can see if the person spits in your food.

 

[vraiblonde]

Is this really much different than what's been in place at WaWa for years, except at WaWa, you can see if the person spits in your food.

Plus at Wawa you can get more than, you know, quinoa.