Eatsa
Eatsa | |
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Restaurant information | |
Established | 2015 |
Dress code | None |
Street address | 121 Spear Street |
City | San Francisco |
State | California |
Postal code/ZIP | 94105-1556 |
Country | United States |
Other locations | 2334 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, California 94704-1613 |
Website | Official website |
Eatsa is a fast-food restaurant chain in San Francisco (37°47′31″N 122°23′42″W / 37.7918989°N 122.3949793°WCoordinates: 37°47′31″N 122°23′42″W / 37.7918989°N 122.3949793°W), and Berkeley, California (37°52′05″N 122°15′34″W / 37.8681077°N 122.2593318°W) which sell bowls of quinoa using an automat-style self-serve ordering process.[1] Eatsa is a startup company and will be expanding its number of restaurants.[2]
Orders are placed via iPads, and customers pick up their food from an automated dispenser, without interacting with any employee of the company.[3]
History
Eatso opened their first restaurant in 2015.[4]
Workforce impact
Investor's Business Daily reported in October 2016 that highly-automated restaurants like Eatsa could "improve efficiency and lower costs", but would do so raising productivity and decreasing the number of workers in the food industry.[5]
See also
References
- ↑ Beacham, Stephen (September 2, 2015). "We had lunch at a fully automated restaurant video". CNET. Retrieved September 16, 2015.
- ↑ Constine, Josh (August 31, 2015). "Eatsa, A Futuristic Restaurant Where Robot Cubbies Serve Quinoa". TechCrunch. Retrieved September 16, 2015.
- ↑ How Eatsa Works?, Washington Post, 28 October 2016.
- ↑ "Restaurant of the Future? Service With an Impersonal Touch". New York Times. 2015-09-08. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
- ↑ Could Push 'Fight For 15' Backers Out Of Work, Investor's Business Daily, 2 October 2016
Further reading
- "California vegetarian restaurant Eatsa replaces servers with tablets and automation". CBS News. September 2, 2015. Retrieved September 25, 2015.
- Schneider, Avie (August 31, 2015). "The Restaurant With No (Visible) Workers". NPR. Retrieved September 25, 2015.
- Fast food reinvented? Eatsa, a fully automated restaurant, now open – Inside Scoop SF