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Automatic robot restaurants put a new spin on fast informal

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They're not our conspirtors as of this time. At these restaurants, the robots are here to serve you.
When someone says "robot restaurant, " I first think of an LED and laser show at a Tokyo venue where remote-controlled robots dance with bikini-clad girls in a physical show that accompanies dinner.

But the reality of robot restaurants is generally much more pedestrian and low-key.

One example is Eatsa, the San Francisco-based restaurant company that takes orders through iPads and dispenses meals through automated machines. Until now, Eatsa has been using this tech to provide up quinoa bowls to health-food fans in its own restaurants. But the company announced Friday that it's expanding its robotic program to the fast-casual restaurant chain Wow Bao next month.

Tap on your cubby to receive your food

At Chicago-based Wow Bao, you can already order your steamed buns via its iphone app or an on-site kiosk. But with Eatsa's tech, you'll also be able to acquire your meal from an LED-lit cubbyhole exhibiting your name. Text showing on the front of the cubby, one among a larger array, will tell you whenever your order is cooking and when you can double-tap on the box to accumulate the food.

It's a quick turn-around for Eatsa, which only a couple weeks ago announced the closing of five of its seven restaurants across the country. The company has now turned its focus to offering automated tech as a platform to other restaurants such as Wow Bao.

A mixture of unnatural intelligence, personal screens, robotics and -- perhaps most crucially -- the readiness of hungry customers to skip human interaction is coming at the right moment to make Eatsa's shift possible. It's part of any gradual creep of technology that's transforming our experience of dining out, and even dining in, thanks to advances in delivery technology.

Eatsa's concept might seem to be exotic today, but Neil Stern, senior partner at retail consulting firm McMillan Doolittle, said we can expect to see more of this kind of tech popping up. "Does it sound right to conceal assembly of orders and deliver via a workplace? " he said. "Maybe not. But Eatsa will present a vision of the future that will be duplicated or enhanced. "

Automatic robot restaurants-Restaurant Robot waiters

The first Eatsa-equipped Wow Bao will open in the Gold Coast neighborhood of Chicago on Dec. you. Using the technology, Incredible Bao plans to increase its sites in 2018. It currently has seven company-owned locations, plus airport, school campus, hotel and stadium franchises.

"When I first heard about Eatsa opening in San Francisco, I jumped on a plane to come see it, " Wow Bao President Geoff Alexander said in a statement. Alexander praised the technology as both entertaining and successful. "I knew instantly that Eatsa would be the perfect technology to integrate into our future locations. "

Do robots are supposed to be in the kitchen?
In Eatsa and soon at Wow Bao, the robotic technology is front and center in the restaurant, serving customers and providing these an experience to go along with their takeout. In other restaurants, robots remain strictly consigned to the kitchen.

At Cafe X and Zume, both based in S . fransisco, robots make lattes and pizzas, respectively. California startup Miso Robotics has built a kitchen assistant robot called Flippy, which from early on 2018 is expected to be grilling burgers in CaliBurger restaurants.


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