• Futuristic Diner with no Waiter or Waitress
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QQooPodqEU
That's some Blade Runner shit, right there.
All it needs is engine noises blaring over the PA constantly, and I can see this going far.
So is there a door at the back of these boxes and a kitchen on the other side or what? They never really explained that in the video (I had to watch without sound though so they very well could have spoken something.)
Presumably, its really just a fancy vending machine but instead of premade food (like old style vending machines) its cooked in the back.
It's Deliveroo so presumably they are cooked at a restaurant relatively nearby and then delivered to this, kind of like Amazon pickup points but for food.
for a moment I was expecting Dahir Insaat
Funny how these have been stone dead for a while but now it seems very likely they'll come back. Heck, they may not even need a kitchen since we already have tech like this, granted it's ramen which probably isn't hard to piece together from precooked ingredients.
The only thing I don't get it is what's preventing some other dick from taking your food from that pickup area, potentially even for free, when you're not looking/aware it's ready yet.
Next step is no cooks. Ultimate future is no food
Holy fuckin' Christ man, $25 for a bacon cheeseburger and a small drink. I spit up my coffee looking at that conversion
Gotta pay for the million dollar worth of automated machines, backend server, and repairs somehow!
Why the fuck would I eat out at a deliveroo "diner" just to be served fucking takeaway, why wouldn't I just get it delivered to my house? Or better yet, eat at the actual restaurant where my food won't look like diarrhea packed into a plastic box. I do not understand this
This idea is about as good as the Dahir Insaat one.
This isn’t really that new. Kumo Sushi in SoCal has chefs making the sushi in the back, you order from a screen and it comes down a conveyor belt. It’s pretty fun!
It's literally just a spruced up automat. But maybe not in a good way? An old-timey automat was entirely physical so at least things would be cheaper and easier to fix. With this everything is digital. I can only imagine a busy one of these with spills everywhere and screens breaking and stuff out of order. If it was up to me, I'd keep the ordering and payments digital but leave the food boxes as minimal as possible.
If I was managing this place I'd make sure those screens are regularly cleaned.
i went to a place like this in tokyo, it was pretty cool
Why is it that everything that's futuristic is basically centered around never talking to another human being? It feels weird as hell.
I'm getting Rm9sbG93ZXJz flashbacks.
Deliveroo just unveiled its first Food Market in Singapore – her..
This is just the oldschool snackmachine applied to take-out dinners.
who are they trying to rob with those prices man
That's not even new, that's how some Sushi bars in Japan work.
more jobs lost, more isolation.
If I want a 15-20 minute in-out, I go to the kind of fast food restaurant that offers a 15-20 minute in-out, I don't need a bloody digital cupboard to achieve that
It honestly is an incredibly weird paradox when it comes to technological application in general. Every single new system we create destroys the social interaction further and further instead of encouraging it. Facebook did the exact opposite of what it was supposed to do, we now have terminals and self checkouts that also remove the human element, we now also have this shit. Before we know it talking to human beings will become "socially" unacceptable in general and everyone will just sit in metal cubicles separated by five foot walls while only interacting with screens and buttons. And the more this shit goes on, the more difficult it is to actually socialize. This is further reinforced by modern social structures isolating people from each other by having their lives consist of nothing but work and responsibility, making friends as an adult is practically fucking impossible with someone of your own age because everyone is constantly busy with his/her own shit 24/7.
I think it's pretty cool and that there's probably a huge market for this kind of thing. I would for sure use a service like this. I don't get what the hatred for self-service concepts are.
People already crave human contact yet can't do anything with it when actually on the spot Removing it even more just so the awkwardness goes away only makes this worse
It's not about awkwardness for me at least. I just prefer solitude or sharing my time with someone close to me without diversion.
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