Believe In Your Robot Restaurant In Tokyo Shinjuku Kabukicho District Skills But Never Stop Improving

Robotic restaurants put a new spin on fast casual

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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 of these 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 serve up quinoa bowls to health-food fans in the own restaurants. But the company announced Friday that it's expanding its robotic platform to the fast-casual restaurant chain Wow Bao next month.

Tap on your cubby to get your food

At Chicago-based Wow Bao, you can already order your steamed buns via its application or an on-site kiosk. But with Eatsa's tech, you'll also manage to gather your meal from an LED-lit cubbyhole displaying your name. Text showing on the front of the cubby, one among a larger array, will tell you once your order is cooking so when you can double-tap on the box to gather your food.

It's a quick turnaround 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 man-made intelligence, personal screens, robotics and -- perhaps most crucially -- the readiness of hungry customers to skip human interaction is coming at the right time to make Eatsa's shift possible. It's part of the sluggish creep of technology which transforming our encounters of dining out, and even dining in, thanks to advances in delivery technical.

Believe In Your Robot Restaurant In Tokyo Shinjuku Kabukicho District Skills But Never Stop Improving

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

"When We 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 effective. "I knew straight away that Eatsa would be the perfect technology to include into our future locations. "

Do robots belong in the kitchen?
For 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 are still strictly consigned to your kitchen.

At Coffeehouse 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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