{"id":129436,"date":"2021-10-23T18:22:21","date_gmt":"2021-10-24T01:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/restaurants-prep-for-long-term-labor-crunch-by-turning-to-robots-to-work-the-fryer-shuttle-food-to-tables"},"modified":"2021-10-23T18:22:21","modified_gmt":"2021-10-24T01:22:21","slug":"restaurants-prep-for-long-term-labor-crunch-by-turning-to-robots-to-work-the-fryer-shuttle-food-to-tables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/restaurants-prep-for-long-term-labor-crunch-by-turning-to-robots-to-work-the-fryer-shuttle-food-to-tables","title":{"rendered":"Restaurants prep for long-term labor crunch by turning to robots to work the fryer, shuttle food to tables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/restaurants-prep-for-long-term-labor-crunch-by-turning-to-robots-to-work-the-fryer-shuttle-food-to-tables.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ron Hetrick, a labor economist at EMSI and one of the report\u2019s authors, said that as a whole the industry is not yet able to bring robotics in at a meaningful level. But future restaurant business models will continue to evolve as labor challenges remain. He expects business models could change so that the amount of service customers need drops.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou will probably lose out on the amount of restaurants that you can go sit in,\u201d Hetrick said.<\/p>\n<p>Miso\u2019s Bell said that software engineers are always in high demand, but the company is facing \u201cnormal challenges\u201d in terms of worker availability. The current supply chain crunch is more of an immediate concern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ron Hetrick, a labor economist at EMSI and one of the report\u2019s authors, said that as a whole the industry is not yet able to bring robotics in at a meaningful level. But future restaurant business models will continue to evolve as labor challenges remain. He expects business models could change so that the amount [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1506,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-food","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}