{"id":51,"date":"2007-08-27T10:41:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-27T14:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/2007\/08\/27\/hi-im-gravity-and-ill-be-your-waiter-this-evening\/"},"modified":"2007-08-27T10:41:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-27T14:41:00","slug":"hi-im-gravity-and-ill-be-your-waiter-this-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2007\/08\/27\/hi-im-gravity-and-ill-be-your-waiter-this-evening\/","title":{"rendered":"Hi! I&#8217;m Gravity, and I&#8217;ll be your waiter this evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/zeitgeist\/0,1518,501086,00.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx2\/blog\/automat.jpg\" alt=\"jetsons style waiterless automat\" border=\"0\" height=\"328\"width=\"255\" style=\"float:left;margin:12px;margin-left:-10px;margin-top:0px;\"\/><\/a>\n\n<p>Shades of the future that never was! A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/zeitgeist\/0,1518,501086,00.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">restaurant in Nuremberg<\/a> has done away with waiters (in a completely humane way) by replacing them with a gravity-feed system and networked computers at every table.\n<\/p><p>\nThe kitchen&#8217;s above the dining room. Customers order using touch-screen computers at their tables, and when their food&#8217;s ready it slides down gently on spiral rails.\n<\/p><p>\nI suppose that to complete the circuit you&#8217;d want more rails leading to dishwashers in the basement, but for now it looks like the jobs of buspersons are secure. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/zeitgeist\/0,1518,501086,00.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More here<\/a>.\n<\/p><p>\nThis is somehow like the <a href=\"http:\/\/urbanlegends.about.com\/library\/bl_parking_garage.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">automated parking garage<\/a> that was designed in Germany a couple of years back. A trend in vertically oriented job reductions?\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shades of the future that never was! A restaurant in Nuremberg has done away with waiters (in a completely humane way) by replacing them with a gravity-feed system and networked computers at every table.<br \/>\nThe kitchen&#8217;s above the dining room. Customers order using touch-screen computers at their tables, and when their food&#8217;s ready it slides down gently on spiral rails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-found-on-the-web"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}