Companies try everything to reduce labor costs to a minimum by automating, which simply means replacing humans by computers, and outsourcing, which means producing in countries with lower labor costs, processes. The ideal world for them is a world without labor costs at all to maximize profits and please the shareholders.
A restaurant owner in Germany had the brilliant idea to replace waiters with a automated system that would send the food on rails right from the kitchen to the customer who ordered the dish. Customers order their dishes using a touchscreen that is also keeping them informed about deliver time and managing payments with an ATM like system.
The kitchen is located on the top floor of the restaurant and dishes are servered using the rail like system and gravity to reach the customers. No word however on how the plates are making their way up again after the visitor finishes his meal.
Read More:
Related posts:
Are ad supported free games the future ?Top 10 Future Display Technologies
A preview of the future
Send SMS to your Girlfriend/Spouse for free with Google Calendar
The Desktop of the Future
Self-publish for free with Lulu
One.com free hosting and domain for selected countries
Order Internet Explorer 8 On CD
Definitely dystopic, even though companies can’t understand they absolutely need labour. It’s what they have to exploit in order to make money…
Deja Vu as this could be scenes from the movies Back In Future 1 – 3 where Michael J Fox visits a restaurant or a café where there are no labour but just machines serving in the future,
Seems rather similar to what sushi restaurants have been doing for a long time…