That "it's fun to eat alone" seating area is so dystopian.
Robot chefs take over at South Korea's highway restaurants, to mixed reviews
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Re: Robot chefs take over at South Korea's highway restaurants, to mixed reviews
#12"Park now finds refuge scrubbing dishes in the back of the kitchen, away from the counter"
They seem to have this entirely backwards.
The robots should be in the truck cab for a start, driving the trucks.
But even if there are human drivers who need these stops, the robots should then be doing the drudgier and more easily automated work; cleaning dishes, mopping the floor, prepping ingredients, and leave the cooking to an actual chef, and the human interaction to an actual human.
Re: Robot chefs take over at South Korea's highway restaurants, to mixed reviews
#13Great read. Touched on Korea's aging population - urgency is a great driver of innovation. Thoughtful discussion of automation's impact on people and their perception of work. Reads like the shaky start of something that could be huge. "the kitchen is calm during a rush" - which restaurant can say that!
No matter how much gets automated we humans need autonomy, mastery, and purpose. Robots won't be accepted long term unless they are repairable by those who lose money when they stop; tweakable down to movements, ingredient quantities etc. so recipes can be made exactly as desired. Restaurateurs need to own the outcome, soup to nuts. The whole thing lives or dies on having extremely good product people at the robot vendors - people who truly care.
Bring on the vibe fooding :)
Re: Robot chefs take over at South Korea's highway restaurants, to mixed reviews
#14That "it's fun to eat alone" seating area is so dystopian.
It's because there is a weird thing in Korea about eating alone, people regularly come up to me and ask if i'm ok and if I want to come eat with them, it's not really done to eat alone in Korea...nobody has really ever been able to give me a proper reason as to why it's such a thing, but it's quite the thing.
Re: Robot chefs take over at South Korea's highway restaurants, to mixed reviews
#15That "it's fun to eat alone" seating area is so dystopian.
It's because there is a weird thing in Korea about eating alone, people regularly come up to me and ask if i'm ok and if I want to come eat with them, it's not really done to eat alone in Korea...nobody has really ever been able to give me a proper reason as to why it's such a thing, but it's quite the thing.
Really? Huh, that’s.. quite nice, actually
Re: Robot chefs take over at South Korea's highway restaurants, to mixed reviews
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's because there is a weird thing in Korea about eating alone, people regularly come up to me and ask if i'm ok and if I want to come eat with them, it's not really done to eat alone in Korea...nobody has really ever been able to give me a proper reason as to why it's such a thing, but it's quite the thing.
Really? Huh, that’s.. quite nice, actually
Yes, Koreans are very very very kind, just super shy. Although it can be a little annoying as I'd hazard around 70-80% of the restaurants are not geared for solo eaters, there are some types of restaurant that are common and they wouldn't really be able to serve you because of how the grill systems work etc.
Re: Robot chefs take over at South Korea's highway restaurants, to mixed reviews
#17That "it's fun to eat alone" seating area is so dystopian.
It's because there is a weird thing in Korea about eating alone, people regularly come up to me and ask if i'm ok and if I want to come eat with them, it's not really done to eat alone in Korea...nobody has really ever been able to give me a proper reason as to why it's such a thing, but it's quite the thing.
That's pretty cool, TIL!