Automated restaurant or robotic restaurant is a restaurant that uses robots to do tasks such

as delivering food and drinks to the tables and/or to cook the food.
Restaurant automation means the use of restaurant management system to automate the major
operations of a restaurant establishment. Even in the early 1970s, a number of restaurants
served foods solely through vending machines. Called automats, or in Japan shokkenki,
customers ordered their foods directly through the machines.
More recently, restaurants are opening that have completely or partially automated their services.
These may include taking of orders, preparing of food, serving and billing. A few fully automated
restaurants operate without any human intervention whatsoever. Robots are designed to help
and sometimes replace human labour (such as waiters and chefs).

LOCATIONS
Automated restaurants have been opening in many countries. Examples include Fritz's Railroad
Restaurant in Kansas City, Missouri,[1] Vtopna (Railway Restaurant), a franchise of various
retaurants and cofeehouses in Czech Republic,[2] 's Baggers Restaurant in Nuremberg, Germany,
[3]
FuA-Men Restaurant, a ramen restaurant located in Nagoya,Japan,[4] Hajime Robot Restaurant,
a Japanese restaurant in Bangkok, Thailand,[5] the Dalu Robot Restaurant
in Jinan, China[6] Haohai Robot Restaurant in Harbin, China[7] and Robot Kitchen Restaurant
in Hong Kong.[8][9] Robot Palace, the first robot restaurant of India is due to open this year in
capital city, New Delhi.

A restaurant owner in China is opting to save on employee wages by forgoing

traditional servers and using robots instead.
The eatery, located in a shopping mall in Ningbo, a city in Chinas northeastern
Zhejiang province, has become a big tourist draw with its futuristic waitstaff.
Each robot costs over $9,400, but owner Lu Dike insists that he is still saving money
over the long term, reports the Daily Mail.
The automated bots take orders, and even speak to customers with a 40-phrase
Mandarin Chinese vocabulary. Each machine travels through the small eatery using
an optical sensing system that is designed to keep them from running into walls or
people.
The robots have a lifespan of about five years and run on a rechargeable battery that
lasts up to eight hours.
Lu claims he is often asked if the bots are for sale.

I get asked at least once a day if Im prepared to sell one of them. Who knows?
Maybe it might be a good sideline, the restaurant owner said.
Check out the food-bots in action.

VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OgFZovYS9U

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