Once we realized that we may not have any servers this summer, we were like, ‘Well we may need to look into this a little more.’
It’s basically extra arms for them so that they could be getting a drink order for someone and the meals for another table could be coming out or an appetizer could be coming out. It can do multiple stops so it can stop at one station, drop off an appetizer and go to drop someone’s meal off.
Andrew Yoa. Owner of Island Grill in Ocean City
The robot known as “Little Peanut” is currently on lease to help serve as a waiter and busboy to aid other servers.
According to Yoa, some may misconceive this new robots as taking away jobs, but he explains that he has more than 60 open positions with no one to fill them.
Usually by this time of the year we probably have over 300 applications. We’ve had 18 applications since January.
We’re just trying our best and I think will be OK, but in the past, we’ve had an hour or hour and a half waits for tables in normal times. But it may just have to be that some people are going to have to do takeout. Or we may just have to open the outside to takeout only, they can pick up their meal and go out kind of picnic-style but that’s the times right now.
Yoa says the restaurant is also looking into obtaining a robot that could go outside and aid the staff with outdoor customers.
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It’s not taking away jobs, yet… Once demand drives higher, and the technology gets a little more perfected, restaurants and other business owners alike will realize how much more cost effective it is to have an “employee” that does the jobs just fine and does not have to be paid, just have its batteries recharged.
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I used to wait tables in restaurants and banquet halls. That little crapster on wheels doesn’t look as if its of much use, just something in the way moving turtle speed that you can bump into all day. If you need to use that, then you don’t know how work with a sense of urgency and to consolidate your tasks, and use big enough trays to tackle everything at once.
“It’s basically extra arms for them so that they could be getting a drink order for someone and the meals for another table could be coming out or an appetizer could be coming out. It can do multiple stops so it can stop at one station, drop off an appetizer and go to drop someone’s meal off.”
It doesn’t take long to greet a table, get a drink order/app/food orders for multiple tables at once. When you go in the back to get your drinks, you load up that tray with other table’s apps, meals, salads, checks, condiments, whatever they want, along with the drinks and punch orders into the computer. Then you drop everything off, and bus off any dirty plates/cups etc. and take payments with that same tray. The size trays that I used to lift had byfar much more room on them to serve multiple tables and get it all done, compared to that thing! He just needs competent staff; that way, even if he is short staffed, everything still gets done timely, and the servers and/or bussers make more money. Not trying to boast, but i can run circles around that thing, and I didn’t make annoying sounds like it does when I waited tables!
People have gotten so lazy anymore that now it has become effort to take a meal order lol
I mean, people don’t want to work – Only get that stimulus check that’s helping to destroy the country