In a quest to connect with customers—and up the tipping potential, NewsFeed surmises—the new craze for restaurant servers has them ditching their trusty pens and pads of paper.
A restaurant that opened this month in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong uses robots for waiters, boosting efficiency and providing further proof that human beings are superfluous. Machines don’t grumble over tips. And they can’t spit in your food.
