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A Dutch restaurant uses creepy robot staff to distance themselves from society
A restaurant in the Netherlands introduced new robot waiters in the midst of a coronavirus pandemic as a means to reduce human-to - human contact. According to the Associated Press, the red and white robots (which give me Rosey the robot vibes) will welcome customers, serve food and take cooked dishes from diner tables in the Royal Palace Restaurant in the town of Renesse.
In and they wear small buckets (smaller than creepy? idk), the robots are saying, "hello and welcome."
"It's helping us with the job we 're doing," says Leah Hu, whose Royal Palace family owns. "We are frequently busy, the robots give us extra hand and cleaning tables. We don't go away.
We are still here. We 're still here. In this industry, you will always need people.
In the Netherlands restaurants were closed for months when the pandemic occurred and many start reopening, but the number of guests is small. Robot servers can't get coronavirus, of course, but they can't help food allergic patrones or get that high chair with a scuffling baby for that group of seven.
For the food service industry it was a few months, and in April, restaurants alone lost approximately 5.5 million jobs.
It seems unlikely that robot waiters would catch on at American foodstuffs anytime soon, but they have been popular in restaurants in China for many years now, possibly because of their cost alone.
And it should be noted that the "machine people" that serve food in Chinese restaurants are not just a way of being more efficiently, but rather a novelty.
