At the Restaurant of the Future, This Gadget Takes Your Order

[MindMover]

PALO ALTO -- Walk through the doors of Palo Alto's Calafia, located in a shopping center across the street from Stanford, and you're retracing the footsteps of giants. Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt were once spotted talking shop there. Sergey Brin, Larry Page, and Mark Zuckerberg all frequent the place. Even James Franco, who admittedly is everywhere, has made an appearance at the restaurant run by Google employee number 53, the chef, Charlie Ayers. Ayers' book, Food 2.0, sits on a short pedestal near the front host's table.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/03/at-the-restaurant-of-the-future-this-gadget-takes-your-order/253855/

Can't tell this one just how wonderful or crappy a day I have had.....it is not talking back......

[dana_b]

1. "And, if the restaurants choose to cut some employees because

they have an automated ordering system, that trims a bunch of costs, too."

I hate it already.

[Chan790]

2. I've got a bad feeling about where this is headed.