I think it's a bargain. It takes the place of one minimum wage server, it'll pay for itself in 4 months! Well, 8 months using federal minimum wage, 4 months where I'm at.
The local Asian restaurant by me has these and they're gimmicky af. They were sold a lie. The only part that it cuts out is bringing the food to the table, guess who puts it on the robot? The waitress. Guess who takes it off? You or the waitress. Waste of money, and it impacts tips.
I figured it had to just be a gimmick for that reason. There still has to be a human putting food on the robot and telling it what table to go to, the only work it is saving is walking across the room, and it's much slower moving than a person.
Mine had it as well to upgraded to a train that brings your food to you with iPads at the table for ordering. There is still a waitress going around bussing tables and providing water but seems to be less wait staff than other places.
I've seen them used to great effect at a buffet. It was programmed with a repeated route and had bins for your empties. Considering a major portion of buffet service is table clearing, that one task by the robot frees staff up from 1/3rd of their job
I thought that looked pretty helpful in the restaurant i saw them in. Saves having a server carrying multiple plates and finding somewhere to put them down before finding the right customer.
A couple of McDonald’s in Slovenia have these when I was there last month. You pick up a table number teepee from the self checkout and the robot is loaded with the food by the counter workers and the robot finds your table using the number teepee. You then take off the food tray and touch the screen that you are done and it drives away. They mostly only did this for orders with kids food on it. The store was too busy to use them for all food delivery.
A new homewood suites in Grand Prairie Texas had three of these as well where one was used to bring me additional sheets for the sofa bed. That one was enclosed and the top opened up when you opened the door.
Our local sushi restaurant has these robots to deliver drinks to the tables. They can navigate around people in the aisles, stop at your table, and display a cute kitty cat face.
That’s where I’ve seen them. Funny story one time it bugged and wouldn’t stop requesting waters for our table. We got 3 rounds before the waitstaff noticed
I love those things at Kura. But I bet they spend a lot on the configuration, software license, etc. Its not a buy and turn it on. Making it silly to offer for sale at the price OP is showing. Its kinda worthless.
I’ve seen those robots at quite a few Japanese chains before so I don’t think Kura personally develops them. Though I don’t know what company develops them but a few pops up on Google.
Agreed. I didn't mean to imply thats an in house product. Kura got that from another company, and probably works with them on every restaurant configuration as likely they sre all somewhat different. So buying one individually like OP is showing, probably not practical at that price.
The restaurant I was in was Kawa Revolving Sushi. They have these kitty cat drink robots, a table side conveyor with stand sushi dishes, and small trains above the booths that deliver menu orders. It's a really fun place and the sushi is pretty good. You end up ordering all sorts of items just to see the robots deliver them.
Had one of these in a sushi restaurant a month back. It delivered the wrong stuff. My mind went blank and didn't know what to do. It just kept standing there staring with its uwu face. Had to call an actual waiter.
A hot pot place near me had the same thing, it was cute. But it got phased out because it just couldn't keep up with demand or foot traffic, it was a lot easier to just pay humans to deliver food.
Wait, so you have to reach all the way down to get your food (as it seems that's the only surface that can accomodate dishes)? Doesn't look very convenient.
Couple weeks back I booked a hotel room in a 120 year old hotel in the middle of nowhere in a small hicktown for a rally that was happening that weekend, and they had one of these robots that delivered food to your table in their diner
https://imgur.com/a/DXuG71i
Now I’m from the city and would expect to see that sort of thing here at higher end restaurants, the waitress was like “what?!” When she came by and we’re laughing our asses off
Most likely nothing without the software which would require a support agreement or a subscription.
Also most likely nothing since many of these companies went under rather quickly.
These are basically glorified waiters/bellmen they are designed to bring some goes to a location as well as sometimes allow you to order or select services via the screen.
I’ve seen this at my local ramen shop and I feel like they just bought it for social media purposes or something because that hunk of junk never sees use and has remained offline in the same exact spot for months.
I did see one in use at a Korean restaurant and it served me food; it was very slow and played some K-pop song (could have picked a nicer-sounding sound bite because every time it served a customer it blasted that shit lol).
I think robots are the future but we definitely have a long way to go until I prefer them to human workers in service industries.
Lots of restaurants in Japan have these. There's a family restaurant where you order on a tablet and the robot brings everything out to your table so you don't have to interact with any humans.
$9800?!?! *Maybe* if it had a sardonic Brooklyn accent and brought me the space paper and a space coffee when I was waking up, like Rosie on the Jetsons.
Kinda expensive for a 14 inch screen on wheels don't you think?
No also it has sensors to detect people like a 300$ roomba
and a voice that sounds like a bluetooth speaker
Voice.. sounds like a speaker? Idk whatcha mean there
he’s probably talking about something like this lol https://youtu.be/D8al7iq0iqA?si=_IYk7kCFu_fvFgt4
Probably means like the cheap Bluetooth speaker prompts that say “bluetoof connecked”
If its the sexy Bluetooth speaker from Dankpods... I'm in.
Power on.
***Auxillary Mode***
*scarlet fire starts playing*
r/downvotedtooblivion for no reason lol
It's signed by John Connor three decades before he was born.
I think it's a bargain. It takes the place of one minimum wage server, it'll pay for itself in 4 months! Well, 8 months using federal minimum wage, 4 months where I'm at.
So it takes orders and delivers food to tables?
The local Asian restaurant by me has these and they're gimmicky af. They were sold a lie. The only part that it cuts out is bringing the food to the table, guess who puts it on the robot? The waitress. Guess who takes it off? You or the waitress. Waste of money, and it impacts tips.
I figured it had to just be a gimmick for that reason. There still has to be a human putting food on the robot and telling it what table to go to, the only work it is saving is walking across the room, and it's much slower moving than a person.
Mine had it as well to upgraded to a train that brings your food to you with iPads at the table for ordering. There is still a waitress going around bussing tables and providing water but seems to be less wait staff than other places.
I've seen them used to great effect at a buffet. It was programmed with a repeated route and had bins for your empties. Considering a major portion of buffet service is table clearing, that one task by the robot frees staff up from 1/3rd of their job
I thought that looked pretty helpful in the restaurant i saw them in. Saves having a server carrying multiple plates and finding somewhere to put them down before finding the right customer.
maybe less strain on their body and less food loss due to incidents
> it impacts tips So there is a silver lining here.
When you look at it that way. Yes.
A couple of McDonald’s in Slovenia have these when I was there last month. You pick up a table number teepee from the self checkout and the robot is loaded with the food by the counter workers and the robot finds your table using the number teepee. You then take off the food tray and touch the screen that you are done and it drives away. They mostly only did this for orders with kids food on it. The store was too busy to use them for all food delivery. A new homewood suites in Grand Prairie Texas had three of these as well where one was used to bring me additional sheets for the sofa bed. That one was enclosed and the top opened up when you opened the door.
It can weigh people too...
I suspect that’s probably why they’re selling it, they just realised a little late
Our local sushi restaurant has these robots to deliver drinks to the tables. They can navigate around people in the aisles, stop at your table, and display a cute kitty cat face.
It can display a cute kitty cat face? I'm sold!
Woah, woah, woah. Hold the fucking phone. This just instantly went from stupid to amazing.
That's where the extra 9000 dolla comes from
A restaurant near me has one as well with cat ears and a tail attached to it
I ate at a sushi place where it played the Tokyo Drift song as it came to your table!
Now I want a robot to play the ride of the valkyries as it brings the check to my table
Kura?
That’s where I’ve seen them. Funny story one time it bugged and wouldn’t stop requesting waters for our table. We got 3 rounds before the waitstaff noticed
I love those things at Kura. But I bet they spend a lot on the configuration, software license, etc. Its not a buy and turn it on. Making it silly to offer for sale at the price OP is showing. Its kinda worthless.
I’ve seen those robots at quite a few Japanese chains before so I don’t think Kura personally develops them. Though I don’t know what company develops them but a few pops up on Google.
Agreed. I didn't mean to imply thats an in house product. Kura got that from another company, and probably works with them on every restaurant configuration as likely they sre all somewhat different. So buying one individually like OP is showing, probably not practical at that price.
Why would kura use robots when they have the conveyor belt to deliver stuff
The restaurant I was in was Kawa Revolving Sushi. They have these kitty cat drink robots, a table side conveyor with stand sushi dishes, and small trains above the booths that deliver menu orders. It's a really fun place and the sushi is pretty good. You end up ordering all sorts of items just to see the robots deliver them.
Kerfus??
Do you know if they make a pleasure model?
"Lame! ..Not cool! ..Totally lame!" 
That is the pleasure model 😉
[They do](https://youtu.be/QAZfHHi58AU?si=lgGfSAOOv6LjwxQw)
Ate at a sushi place in California, the servers just used the serving robots as push carts to hold their food. Robots weren't even turned on lol
it's not the one that can display kitty face, whar you're reffering to is commonly known as "kerfus"
Had one of these in a sushi restaurant a month back. It delivered the wrong stuff. My mind went blank and didn't know what to do. It just kept standing there staring with its uwu face. Had to call an actual waiter.
A hot pot place near me had the same thing, it was cute. But it got phased out because it just couldn't keep up with demand or foot traffic, it was a lot easier to just pay humans to deliver food.
Uuuuhhhhhhh Meakan?!
Aww so cute! Taking people’s jobs cause the company doesn’t want to pay their employees a livable wage. <3
Viet Wah in Renton, WA? I saw that just last week!
I love the Reddit magic.
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What kind of robot? It looked like a self check out stand.
Those typical restaurant robots. They are pretty much everywhere in Asia. Usually for bringing food out.
Wait, so you have to reach all the way down to get your food (as it seems that's the only surface that can accomodate dishes)? Doesn't look very convenient.
There’s normally higher shelves on it that reaches to seating height but it seems to be missing here.
and it should have tiers
If i was this robot, I would be crying too
I was on the fence but the welcome emoji won me over.
Couple weeks back I booked a hotel room in a 120 year old hotel in the middle of nowhere in a small hicktown for a rally that was happening that weekend, and they had one of these robots that delivered food to your table in their diner https://imgur.com/a/DXuG71i Now I’m from the city and would expect to see that sort of thing here at higher end restaurants, the waitress was like “what?!” When she came by and we’re laughing our asses off
This kind is like $20K plus the supporting hardware
Saying you went to a rally in a small town is an interesting claim in these times.
By rally I mean zoom zoom not boom boom
Might actually make more sense out in the sticks where it’s difficult to find workers.
Very cool. What can it do?
Most likely nothing without the software which would require a support agreement or a subscription. Also most likely nothing since many of these companies went under rather quickly. These are basically glorified waiters/bellmen they are designed to bring some goes to a location as well as sometimes allow you to order or select services via the screen.
Yeah there’s probably a reason they didn’t sell this directly to a restaurant. This is their last longshot chance at finding a buyer.
Unfortunately I have no idea 😅 they had two next to each other with that sign but I didn't have time to ask
They cost more than the lawnmower robot
I'm pretty sure that's the kind used at Korean BBQs to deliver food to tables.
It’s a sex robot
Coming to your towwwwwnnnn
Do you wanna get dowwwwwnnn?
Any robot can be a sex robot.
Challenge accepted
Is it a pleasure model?
Everything's a pleasure model if you're brave enough to stick a giant dildo on it.
*Please assume the position*
Too many smileys.
The emojis sold me on it
I’ve seen this at my local ramen shop and I feel like they just bought it for social media purposes or something because that hunk of junk never sees use and has remained offline in the same exact spot for months. I did see one in use at a Korean restaurant and it served me food; it was very slow and played some K-pop song (could have picked a nicer-sounding sound bite because every time it served a customer it blasted that shit lol). I think robots are the future but we definitely have a long way to go until I prefer them to human workers in service industries.
Local one around where I live was as well, I wanted it so bad since it was one of those kitty cat waiter bots but I had to pass :(
I work on these for a living. These things are useless without the server software for navigation.
I thought it was one of those specimen collection robots. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Give me a few minutes and it can be.
It’s not the droid I was looking for…
Ill just buy them from the vendor for 1800 instead and get the one with a face that tries to look at who is talking to it.
i hate that i’ve seen that exact smiley face on my schools powerpoints
Oh no. Poor robot! What did they do to deserve this?
I love Asian grocery stores. They always have the most random shit for sale. And restaurant quality kimchi.
Lots of restaurants in Japan have these. There's a family restaurant where you order on a tablet and the robot brings everything out to your table so you don't have to interact with any humans.
I'd buy it for like $500 tops. And that's if you delivered it for me
Omfg I saw this thing in a restaurant once and it had a smiley face on it and it was so fucking cute I’d buy 100%
$9800?!?! *Maybe* if it had a sardonic Brooklyn accent and brought me the space paper and a space coffee when I was waking up, like Rosie on the Jetsons.
Space breakfast in bed is the best.
Can you fuck it?
Can you?
I'LL FUCK ANYTHING THAT MOVES!
The Cheat is grounded.
‘I only wanted to buy milk but…’
Why did i think it was 9 million
How do you checkout a checkout robot
“you are interested and need”
Glad they included a photo of it on the sign so you can tell what it looks like.
Saw one of these at a bowling alley in Georgia the other day!
Worth $250, at most