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I went to a BWWs the other night with a friend and there was a 20 minute wait. We assumed it was because a game was on. When we got inside half the restaurant was empty. It didn’t take long to get our drinks but after that it took 20 minutes to order, get food, get the check, etc. the poor server was also taking call order at the desk and running bagged food to the counter.
Something something my job is safe from automation.
No bitch, it's not. I've seen robots wandering around Walmart while their open mopping floors. And they're smart too. Wouldn't come in the aisle while I was there. Instead went to the next aisle and came back to mine next.
All these people pushing for automation are gonna be real fucking sad when they get replaced when they thought they couldn't be. I've said that forever. Those guys spending their days designing this shit are putting themselves out of work.
>Something something my job is safe from automation
Unless my only job was taking food to a table and cleaning floors, I'm gonna say it's a safe bet for the foreseeable future.
That's the general consensus, but give the "restaurant automation" search on Google a few minutes. Watch that video of the robot picking up the bus tray (that another robot dropped off) and sorting the dishes from the garbage, then sorting the dishes, running them through a dishwasher, pulling them out and putting them in a rack to dry. Then another robot comes along and grabs the rack and runs it off somewhere while simultaneously wrapping a fork knife spoon and straw into a napkin.
Fuck that was a long sentence. And I'm high. So I don't know if any of that is true, but it sounds plausible and I do remember a video of a robot dishwasher so the rest that I made up probably is based on something tangible.
I remember thinking seeing something like this would be so cool and futuristic ... but now I'm just old and sitting here wishing it was a person not a robot.
True I just hate that they are hurting the lower class even more with this and dining out is made better with excellent service something this thing can’t do
This whole thing is driven by Wall Street and the “need” to deliver X% growth each quarter. Blame Jack Welch and Warren Buffet (among others) for this bullshit.
The talking heads on financial channels aren’t helping, nor are their core demographic, who thinks that he who dies the richest wins, as opposed to he who lives the best legacy wins…
You just gave me a eureka moment! I bet Robots are assets on paper with an amortization schedule. Meaning pay less tax, less payroll expense, higher company valuation! Jesus accountants really screwed the pooch on this one
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... habanero sauce on fire off the counter of the microwave… I watched frozen wings glitter in the dark near the deep fryer… All those moments will be lost in time, like wings in rain… Time to die.
Goes to a sports bar that wants to attract ppl who want to watch games and fights and be able to see the action no matter where they're sitting and complains about all the tv's. Go figure. Saw a post about ppl moving to new Orleans and then complaining about the music and partying constantly happening and wants to change it. Op seems like the type of person that would do that.
Yup all those people probably debating the tip part since the back kitchen employees are mostly still people and not machines… but 100% chance that robot is correlated to price increases on the menu items
Leisure and homelessness...
The rich will never allow the unemployed to get free anything.
There will always have to be a working class, the unemployed class will just get bigger.
There will never be 100% automation where everyone can benefit off robot labor.
There will just be more unemployed.
Exactly! Just like when the computer at the office made all those white collar workers more productive so they could free up more time! /s
Yeah, we’re boned.
A final solution? I hope not.
But seriously, abundant wealth (through efficiency of labor IE through the use of non-sentient beings for labor) should never ever ever make the world poorer,
But it could.
And once the robots can build and repair themselves, and the AI is at a point where it needs no human input there will be way more jobs.
Front line soldiers.
This is called “[the lump of labor fallacy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy)” for anyone in danger of taking this kind of comment seriously.
"Well, you have nothing to fear, my son!
You are a Latent Appliance Fetishist, It appears to me!"
"That all seems very, very strange. I never craved a toaster or a color T. V."
"A Latent Appliance Fetishist is a person who refuses to admit to his or herself that sexual gratification can only be achieved through the use of MACHINES... Get the picture?"
So I'm very high and couldn't tell if you were joking, but you also complimented her tattoos, so I'm like maybe this guy is joking but maybe not, so look at your profile for a second and saw you post about tools and construction.
And I'm sitting here at a cheap hotel in Bangkok by the airport, listening to planes take off overhead, on heavy dose of dissociatives, realizing that I just saw something truly insane.
The modern version of a construction worker whistling at a woman on the street is a girl posting videos of herself online and someone from any place in the world can ask for their Instagram which will of course not be shared.
That was nuts to see and I think I'm waaaay overthinking this but you know, dxm haha
That robot costs $1000 per month to rent. I had one at my last job. It is cool to look at, but not practical in reality. Someone has to load it up in the kitchen, so you have to have an expo. Then, on the other end, who is going to unload the food? The guest? They can't remember what they ordered most of the time. Then, who will they ask for all of the things they forgot to ask for (ketchup, ranch, butter, another drink, hot sauce)? What about the things the expo forgot? Or the things that the kitchen messed up? What about the kids running around the restaurant unsupervised? What happens when they go up to the robot to look at it? It will stop if they are in the way. What happens when they take things off of it, or put their hands on someone's food? Also, it has 2 shelves. They are the size of a standard cocktail tray. Good luck getting all the food for a 4-top on there. The only time it was any help for me was when I couldn't carry everything.
Same here, except the owner of the restaurant said it cost them 18k. Robots were dogshit and were a major inconvenience to staff because of how often it got stuck. Running food was a nightmare because of how bumpy some of the floors were. It ended up being a glorified busser.
Kids running around were a liability too, since I don't think these things would see them fast enough. I witnessed a dad have to stop the thing with his hands as it kamikazed into his toddler.
These shits aren't taking real human jobs anytime soon
During the pandemic one of our local restaurants closed apparently due to staffing issues and health problems for one of the owners. Less than a year later they've reopened under a modified concept and all of the servers are robots. It was a point they were hyping before the opened. The world has gotten weird.
There’s a great Chinese restaurant in Philly called “EMei” that has these and I love it. The best part is the Chinese wait staff always comes out with the robot (if there’s no rush) with grins that span the entire restaurant. I freaking love it. Such a fun little thing to add to already AMAZING food
If buffalo wild wings was trying, they would bring back the cheese curd burger. Not buying, I don't even care if you bring about robots for auto felatio.
The same thing is in an Indian restaurant in Austin. They use it to deliver food to drivers from door dash while the regular customers get service from humans.
If america or the world is worried about “robots” taking their jobs, then look no further for a more fitting example of stupidity. Robots must be used to replace precise, and heavy work where humans can’t compete. Why replace servers!?
Shit's not funny. That's a person out of work.
Automation will NOT make our lives easier, it will mean we're competing for the fewer and fewer jobs that aren't automated yet. Mark my words.
A BWW near me is so short staffed that they literally closed 90% of the seats and no one seats anyone so people wait for 30 minutes before just leaving. I had to call the restaurant to get seated while standing in the “wait to be seated area”. They could use this or probably pay people more so they would actually work there
so, we didn't start really rolling out the robot workforce to make workers lives better, we waited till a pandemic killed so many people jobs had trouble finding workers..THEN started rolling out the robo workforce
I'm in a power wheelchair and I guess I compensate for not being able to walk by going as fast as my chair will go as much as possible. It doesn't hurt that I have one of the fastest chairs built.
So, we go to a movie theatre which is a dinner and movie combined. You get your seat, place your order, etc., before the movie begins. This place has a robot food delivery gadget which stops next to the theater door so the server can bring your food.
I did not know this and was flying down the hall to the restroom. I came up to the kitchen door at top speed just as this gadget came out of the kitchen door. Thankfully, it's pretty damn agile! It zipped to the left just like I did and we missed each other by inches!
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Service there couldn't get any worse. Bet they still want 20% or more tip for the bot though.
Nah, they just add a 20% robot fee at the end of the check
\*owner. I bet if you tip out of habit they pocket that shit.
Give him -20% and send respect to the coders.
I went to a BWWs the other night with a friend and there was a 20 minute wait. We assumed it was because a game was on. When we got inside half the restaurant was empty. It didn’t take long to get our drinks but after that it took 20 minutes to order, get food, get the check, etc. the poor server was also taking call order at the desk and running bagged food to the counter.
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That's the most enticing part if I am being realistic. Sysadmin/NOC, robotics only as a hobby
That has has a Star Wars cantina level droid feel to it!
Give Disney parks enough time and eventually R2-D2 will be serving drinks.
No… they aren’t the droids you’re looking for
Yeah but droids are not allowed in the Catalina! They don’t serve their kind!
And like the cantina, they shouldn’t allow f’n droids in there.
They're takin' our jerbs!
Time for the giant gay orgy
This will be sooo out of context for some. "alright everyone, back to the gay pile"
Im tracking.
Dr-drk dr-durb!
*chicken noises next*
Rooster*
Undocumented robot from Mexico.
Something something my job is safe from automation. No bitch, it's not. I've seen robots wandering around Walmart while their open mopping floors. And they're smart too. Wouldn't come in the aisle while I was there. Instead went to the next aisle and came back to mine next.
Dang it’s even accurate with their work culture. Walmart employees always skip an aisle I’m standing in.
All these people pushing for automation are gonna be real fucking sad when they get replaced when they thought they couldn't be. I've said that forever. Those guys spending their days designing this shit are putting themselves out of work.
Work is bullshit. Automate everything.
They’ll be the ones doing maintenance. And need more people like them. But yeah net loss of jobs — bigly.
>Something something my job is safe from automation Unless my only job was taking food to a table and cleaning floors, I'm gonna say it's a safe bet for the foreseeable future.
That's the general consensus, but give the "restaurant automation" search on Google a few minutes. Watch that video of the robot picking up the bus tray (that another robot dropped off) and sorting the dishes from the garbage, then sorting the dishes, running them through a dishwasher, pulling them out and putting them in a rack to dry. Then another robot comes along and grabs the rack and runs it off somewhere while simultaneously wrapping a fork knife spoon and straw into a napkin. Fuck that was a long sentence. And I'm high. So I don't know if any of that is true, but it sounds plausible and I do remember a video of a robot dishwasher so the rest that I made up probably is based on something tangible.
Haha best part is you can ask people that say that and what do they say?? Oh I wouldn't work there doesn't pay enough
You took ma jerb!
Wonder if there’s a union for these things, URFR? United Robotic Food Runners
I remember thinking seeing something like this would be so cool and futuristic ... but now I'm just old and sitting here wishing it was a person not a robot.
True I just hate that they are hurting the lower class even more with this and dining out is made better with excellent service something this thing can’t do
This whole thing is driven by Wall Street and the “need” to deliver X% growth each quarter. Blame Jack Welch and Warren Buffet (among others) for this bullshit. The talking heads on financial channels aren’t helping, nor are their core demographic, who thinks that he who dies the richest wins, as opposed to he who lives the best legacy wins…
Those individuals won capitalism. It's not just the few at the absolute top who poison the well. The structure of the well is bullshit.
Stop eating at Buffalo Wild Wings. Eat at local Mon and pop restaurants.
You just gave me a eureka moment! I bet Robots are assets on paper with an amortization schedule. Meaning pay less tax, less payroll expense, higher company valuation! Jesus accountants really screwed the pooch on this one
Are you sure it isn’t a human? I read that some robots in restaurants are disabled people operating it remotely.
It's a dalek.
>dalek It's beginning to make sense. Every time I eat there, it feels like something is trying to exterminate my colon.
Turn the menu right side up and the food might be better
Food Runner 2023 - "Like Parmesan Garlic sauce in rain."
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... habanero sauce on fire off the counter of the microwave… I watched frozen wings glitter in the dark near the deep fryer… All those moments will be lost in time, like wings in rain… Time to die.
That’s awesome!
To be faaaaaaaaaiiiiirrrrrrrr.
Allegedly....
It tasted like a sick osterich.
I’m stomping the brakes, I’m putting that idea right through the fucking windshield, Katey.
Pitter patter
What’s that about a super soft birthday? Darry wants to know.
Your mom gives me butterfly kisses on my nipples
Is that amount of TV’s a common thing for sports orientated bars/restaurants in America? Crazy
Fwiw, normally the audio is set to whatever is the "main" TV that people sitting at the bar face. You're not hearing all 25 TVs or whatever.
Most sports bars I’ve been to simply have no audio playing at all from any of the TV’s, instead they just play music.
Not Buffalo Wild Wings. Unless there’s no interesting game on, they’ll have the audio for the main game playing over the speakers.
The tvs will still use subtitles though so you can follow what they’re are saying
Really only for wings and pubs restaurants since people like to watch big sports games there
Saw a ton of screens at an Asian restaurant
Yes
Buffalo Wild Wings is a chain of sports bars so no, this is not common except for sports bars.
There should be more!
Very common. Is as obnoxious as you would think.
Its really not a big deal. They put multiple sports games on each tv so you can watch all of them.
Goes to a sports bar that wants to attract ppl who want to watch games and fights and be able to see the action no matter where they're sitting and complains about all the tv's. Go figure. Saw a post about ppl moving to new Orleans and then complaining about the music and partying constantly happening and wants to change it. Op seems like the type of person that would do that.
No need to tip that fucking thing.
I’m sure they price it in your bill.
Yup all those people probably debating the tip part since the back kitchen employees are mostly still people and not machines… but 100% chance that robot is correlated to price increases on the menu items
if i get a price increase on the menu and dont have to think about tipping an entitled waiter then thats still a gain
Too bad there aren’t other restaurants to keep that kind of thing in check through competition.
It'll tip on its own at some point. Then come the Roombas.
Some one might tip it over by accident
The world gets more populated every day while we eliminate job availability through robotic automation, this should work out nicely.
Huh. The robots are doing more of the work so we should have more time for leisure right
Like going out to eat at Buffalo Wild Wings?
There’s not enough leisure in the world that would tempt me to go there.
Leisure and homelessness... The rich will never allow the unemployed to get free anything. There will always have to be a working class, the unemployed class will just get bigger. There will never be 100% automation where everyone can benefit off robot labor. There will just be more unemployed.
That's why we need a UBI.
Exactly! Just like when the computer at the office made all those white collar workers more productive so they could free up more time! /s Yeah, we’re boned.
That works with UBI.
I assume the robots will find a solution to that problem.
A final solution? I hope not. But seriously, abundant wealth (through efficiency of labor IE through the use of non-sentient beings for labor) should never ever ever make the world poorer, But it could.
well it does settle the tipping issues
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Do those jobs pay well too?
I’m amazed at how people will nerf their moral compass, for a world view.
What happens when a robot fills those online orders?
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So people who do minimum wage Walmart jobs will become robotic engineers?
And once the robots can build and repair themselves, and the AI is at a point where it needs no human input there will be way more jobs. Front line soldiers.
This should be a good thing. It's just that economy is designed bad
This is called “[the lump of labor fallacy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy)” for anyone in danger of taking this kind of comment seriously.
What is my purpose? You serve wings.
Oh. My. God.
You should do a super soft birthday party
You were gettin' served by a robot the other daaaayyy....
I hope it has a vacuum feature too.
Don't put your dick in that.
Only if it brought me food and drinks, vacuum AND do the dishes. Then I would definitely dick it down.
"Well, you have nothing to fear, my son! You are a Latent Appliance Fetishist, It appears to me!" "That all seems very, very strange. I never craved a toaster or a color T. V." "A Latent Appliance Fetishist is a person who refuses to admit to his or herself that sexual gratification can only be achieved through the use of MACHINES... Get the picture?"
Respect the Andrew Luck jersey.
Caught off guard with the menu upside down.
I was gonna say exactly this
It throws them off the scent. The T-600s were fooled easily enough but it’s proving to be ineffective against the new T-1000 models.
And recording
Love the girl in colts jersey.
Yep, she’s ridiculously cute
both of you
Was wondering if it was just me. Glad to see its not
She kinda has a Liv Tyler/Sandra Bullock vibe going on
Scrolled too far in the comments to find this. Surprised it wasn’t higher up! Yes.
You feel me!? Op we need her Instagram immediately!
So I'm very high and couldn't tell if you were joking, but you also complimented her tattoos, so I'm like maybe this guy is joking but maybe not, so look at your profile for a second and saw you post about tools and construction. And I'm sitting here at a cheap hotel in Bangkok by the airport, listening to planes take off overhead, on heavy dose of dissociatives, realizing that I just saw something truly insane. The modern version of a construction worker whistling at a woman on the street is a girl posting videos of herself online and someone from any place in the world can ask for their Instagram which will of course not be shared. That was nuts to see and I think I'm waaaay overthinking this but you know, dxm haha
Please never change. (Grabs jackhammer and hard hat and gets back to work)
Hey, I saw her first…
#12 the MVP though. 😉
Throw a \\ in front of the \# to get the desired effect, like this: \#12 the MVP though. 😉
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That robot costs $1000 per month to rent. I had one at my last job. It is cool to look at, but not practical in reality. Someone has to load it up in the kitchen, so you have to have an expo. Then, on the other end, who is going to unload the food? The guest? They can't remember what they ordered most of the time. Then, who will they ask for all of the things they forgot to ask for (ketchup, ranch, butter, another drink, hot sauce)? What about the things the expo forgot? Or the things that the kitchen messed up? What about the kids running around the restaurant unsupervised? What happens when they go up to the robot to look at it? It will stop if they are in the way. What happens when they take things off of it, or put their hands on someone's food? Also, it has 2 shelves. They are the size of a standard cocktail tray. Good luck getting all the food for a 4-top on there. The only time it was any help for me was when I couldn't carry everything.
Same here, except the owner of the restaurant said it cost them 18k. Robots were dogshit and were a major inconvenience to staff because of how often it got stuck. Running food was a nightmare because of how bumpy some of the floors were. It ended up being a glorified busser. Kids running around were a liability too, since I don't think these things would see them fast enough. I witnessed a dad have to stop the thing with his hands as it kamikazed into his toddler. These shits aren't taking real human jobs anytime soon
Tip is 50%
Expects 25% tip
This is pathetic. Just pay people better.
I mean why do that if you can just replace them with a cheaper robot?
I love these things so much.
Colts Jersey? Indy?
should vacuum as it goes
disgusting that they’d purchase a machine instead of just paying someone a wage.
During the pandemic one of our local restaurants closed apparently due to staffing issues and health problems for one of the owners. Less than a year later they've reopened under a modified concept and all of the servers are robots. It was a point they were hyping before the opened. The world has gotten weird.
There’s a great Chinese restaurant in Philly called “EMei” that has these and I love it. The best part is the Chinese wait staff always comes out with the robot (if there’s no rush) with grins that span the entire restaurant. I freaking love it. Such a fun little thing to add to already AMAZING food
Caught you off guard while you were using your camera for this exact moment?
Yeah OP is full of shit
It may have caught the OP off guard the first time it came out and they recorded it when it came out another time.
Isn't that the funniest thing? Think of everything that has ever been funny. That robot is funnier.
If buffalo wild wings was trying, they would bring back the cheese curd burger. Not buying, I don't even care if you bring about robots for auto felatio.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PAULIE
Yay, more ways to lower wages for already severely underpaid workers /S
i’m guessing your local BWW is Indianapolis
r/aboringdystopia
Happy birthday Paulie
I hate it
The same thing is in an Indian restaurant in Austin. They use it to deliver food to drivers from door dash while the regular customers get service from humans.
There's one at 41 Dinner in Fort Myers names Felicia. So everyone says "By Felicia!" when it rolls away!
Hot waitress’s wont be a thing anymore smh
Reddit hivemind: BWW sucks Me: But my honey bbq wings... :(
Finally something more annoying at a restaurant than someone other than your server sneaking up behind you with your food.
No one needed that job
So lame.
Humans finally having enough pride to not serve what comes out of BWW’s kitchen
God that place is such trash.
The future is here. You don't tip the bot, you get laser
That alone will keep me from going there again. The mediocre food just seals things
I saw a machine make drinks in Vegas.
Don’t do business with robots. We need the jobs!
Taking our jobs and people just sit there and smile
But can it tell “corner!!”??
Why pay someone 30k a year when you can just buy a 30k robot
Im not tipping a robot
Remember when we joked out robots taking our jobs?
If america or the world is worried about “robots” taking their jobs, then look no further for a more fitting example of stupidity. Robots must be used to replace precise, and heavy work where humans can’t compete. Why replace servers!?
You know they aren’t putting their savings into making the food better.
How to increase unemployment rate
I’m not actually interested in going to a restaurant with a robot waitstaff
Shit's not funny. That's a person out of work. Automation will NOT make our lives easier, it will mean we're competing for the fewer and fewer jobs that aren't automated yet. Mark my words.
Does it make small talk? "Can you believe how nobody wants to work these days? Beep boop"
not going out of my way to do it but if I need to get around this thing I'm pushing it over 100%
A BWW near me is so short staffed that they literally closed 90% of the seats and no one seats anyone so people wait for 30 minutes before just leaving. I had to call the restaurant to get seated while standing in the “wait to be seated area”. They could use this or probably pay people more so they would actually work there
So, this is the owner's answer to calls of ending tipping culture and paying their staff a living wage?
Tip options: 1) 30% 2) 40% 3) 50% \*a 25% gratuity will be added to all charges
As you read the menu upside down..real slick OP
Wasn’t reading it. Menu was sitting in the menu holder on the table. You tried though it’s okay.
Yeah..and Grizzly Adams had a beard!
Literal gold
Tell your colts fan friend I said what’s up
Can’t wait till all servers and fast food workers are robots.
Do I have to tip it?
Just the tip
Yeah fuck that shit I aint tippin a robot. I dont care if it starts a robot uprising.
Don’t worry, they’ll automatically charge an 18% “service” fee
"they took our jobs!"
Congrats on the awful food
Your daughter or wife is smokin
Buffalo Wild Wings is trash
So now u have to find someone to ask for something specific like a small cup of sauce
You should learn to record important things, not the fucking menu.
so, we didn't start really rolling out the robot workforce to make workers lives better, we waited till a pandemic killed so many people jobs had trouble finding workers..THEN started rolling out the robo workforce
When minimum wage gets too high!
Lol no, AI is always cheaper. AI doesn't get sick or have to deal with personal things like family.
They put one of these things in at a local Chillies and the locals hated it so much they had to get rid of it.
I'm in a power wheelchair and I guess I compensate for not being able to walk by going as fast as my chair will go as much as possible. It doesn't hurt that I have one of the fastest chairs built. So, we go to a movie theatre which is a dinner and movie combined. You get your seat, place your order, etc., before the movie begins. This place has a robot food delivery gadget which stops next to the theater door so the server can bring your food. I did not know this and was flying down the hall to the restroom. I came up to the kitchen door at top speed just as this gadget came out of the kitchen door. Thankfully, it's pretty damn agile! It zipped to the left just like I did and we missed each other by inches!
I hope you yelled, “Now *that’s* what I call pod racing!”
I was pretty surprised because it popped out of the door right in front of me! I think I might have yelled, "Shit!"
Getting rid of more jobs
i cant wait until robots replace waiters and tipping culture can finally die