{"id":24395,"date":"2016-04-07T11:17:38","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T18:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/guangzhou-restaurant-fires-its-robot-staff-for-their-incompetence"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:03:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:03:09","slug":"guangzhou-restaurant-fires-its-robot-staff-for-their-incompetence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/guangzhou-restaurant-fires-its-robot-staff-for-their-incompetence","title":{"rendered":"Guangzhou restaurant fires its robot staff for their incompetence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/guangzhou-restaurant-fires-its-robot-staff-for-their-incompetence.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To the Robots of this restaurant \u201cYou\u2019re Fired!\u201d.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Employing robots and artificial intelligence in Chinese restaurants has turned out to be not such a smart idea after all, with restaurants in Guangzhou either closing down or firing their mechanical staff.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/media.workercn.cn\/sites\/media\/grrb\/2016_04\/04\/GR0401.htm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Opens in a new window\">Workers\u2019 Daily<\/a>, two restaurants which made use of robotic waiters have closed down and a third which remains open has given all but one of the robots the sack.<\/p>\n<p>Their human counterparts at the restaurant were full of complaints about their former colleagues. \u201cThe robots weren\u2019t able to carry soup or other food steady and they would frequently break down. The boss has decided never to use them again,\u201d said one employee.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/shanghaiist.com\/2016\/04\/06\/restaurant_fires_incompetent_robot_staff.php\">http:\/\/shanghaiist.com\/2016\/04\/06\/restaurant_fires_incompetent_robot_staff.php<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the Robots of this restaurant \u201cYou\u2019re Fired!\u201d. Employing robots and artificial intelligence in Chinese restaurants has turned out to be not such a smart idea after all, with restaurants in Guangzhou either closing down or firing their mechanical staff. According to Workers\u2019 Daily, two restaurants which made use of robotic waiters have closed down [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24395","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\/24395","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24395"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67775,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24395\/revisions\/67775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}