The Restaurant With No (Visible) Workers

by Andra Keay

01 September 2015

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A new, highly automated restaurant in San Francisco looks to speed up service through efficiency. You won’t see any people taking your order or serving you at Eatsa, a fast-casual quinoa eatery.

Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.npr.org

The ipads automating customer service are a bigger threat to the fast food industry and job economy than any (unclear if there is any) robot food handling at the back end.

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Andra Keay is the Managing Director of Silicon Valley Robotics, founder of Women in Robotics and is a mentor, investor and advisor to startups, accelerators and think tanks, with a strong interest in commercializing socially positive robotics and AI.

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