A small-town restaurant couldn't find enough servers to stay fully staffed, so the owner hired a robot named Plato, unaware of the pushback she'd get from customers.
has increased by nearly four dollars to $14.20 per hour. Food prices skyrocketed. And finding servers willing to commute to the small town approximately 45 minutes outside of Portland is so difficult that Andrus requests potential employees Google the address before applying.
"I love robots and what they can do," she said with a wide smile."I think they're kind of cute and kind of fun." "Y’all are insane," one woman wrote."They’ve been hiring for months and everyone’s been complaining about the wait time here… Stop your commenting and go apply for the job if you’re so upset about it."
"I say ‘Hi’ to him every time he comes by," Roy, a Vietnam-era veteran, told Fox News. He added with a grin,"I know he can't answer, but Mama told me to be polite." The Cazadero is one of about two dozen locations to deploy Plato so far. Small businesses have been early adopters of the cobiot, as United Robotics Group calls it.
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