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user-inactivated · 3446 days ago · link · · parent · post: The future isn't robots replacing waiters, it's me replacing waiters
Where were you? I haven't encountered too many automated restaurants in the States but I hear they're everywhere in Japan and China.
They aren't that common in Japan or China either, actually. They're more common in Japan than in the US, but still rare enough to be noteworthy when you happen to run across one. In China I think they're probably less common than in the US, if only because labor costs are still pretty low. I travel to various places in China fairly often and off the top of my head can't remember the last time I saw a restaurant with much (customer-visible) automation. Not a very rigorous observation, though; I may just not be frequenting the parts of China where they're concentrated.