{"id":20156,"date":"2015-12-21T18:47:03","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T02:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/is-this-the-restaurant-of-the-future-no-host-no-waiters-or-even-tables"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:17:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:17:20","slug":"is-this-the-restaurant-of-the-future-no-host-no-waiters-or-even-tables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/is-this-the-restaurant-of-the-future-no-host-no-waiters-or-even-tables","title":{"rendered":"Is this the restaurant of the future? No host, no waiters or even tables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/is-this-the-restaurant-of-the-future-no-host-no-waiters-or-even-tables2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When you walk into Eatsa, a new restaurant at the Village at Westfield Topanga, there is no host, no waiters or even tables. The restaurant is an empty space lined with iPads on one wall, interactive clear cubbies (glass doors) on another, and a wall outfitted with motion sensors that dispense cutlery.<\/p>\n<p>This is fast food the Eatsa way. The restaurant, which has a location in San Francisco, is completely automated \u2014 minus the food preparation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are three people in the back that make everything from scratch,\u201d said Travis Jones, who is head of the culinary operations at both Eatsa locations. \u201cWe believe in blending technology and proper culinary skills, and it\u2019s a blend that makes the whole process work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/food\/dailydish\/la-dd-eatsa-village-topanga-20151221-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you walk into Eatsa, a new restaurant at the Village at Westfield Topanga, there is no host, no waiters or even tables. The restaurant is an empty space lined with iPads on one wall, interactive clear cubbies (glass doors) on another, and a wall outfitted with motion sensors that dispense cutlery. This is fast [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20156","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20156"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68977,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20156\/revisions\/68977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}