World's First Kitchen-Free, Robot-Run Fast-Food Restaurant

Re:World's First Kitchen-Free, Robot-Run Fast-Food Restaurant by nathan_long on Friday November 30, 2012 @10:30AM (#4853581)

More importantly, how will people learn basic job skills, like "show up on time" and "do what you're told" if all the traditional first jobs are automated?

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Re:World's First Kitchen-Free, Robot-Run Fast-Food Restaurant by alwaysabove on Friday November 30, 2012 @10:31AM (#4853587)

Isn't that what schools do? Or actually, parents before you get to school age?

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Re:World's First Kitchen-Free, Robot-Run Fast-Food Restaurant by jiggy2011 on Friday November 30, 2012 @10:35AM (#4853600)

School is a lot more lax about it because it's so much more difficult for them to kick you out.

When I was at school we would sometimes turn up over an hour late or just skip the day altogether. Was a culture shock when I started my first job and got a roasting for being 5 mins late.

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Re:World's First Kitchen-Free, Robot-Run Fast-Food Restaurant by ovi256 on Friday November 30, 2012 @10:35AM (#4853607)

Ask any teacher, and he/she'll have plenty of stories about parents who do nothing to teach their kids these habits, or even exactly the opposite of that.

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Re:World's First Kitchen-Free, Robot-Run Fast-Food Restaurant by Evbn on Friday November 30, 2012 @12:01PM (#4854087)

Without basic jobs, "basic job" skills are irrelevant.

Plenty of jobs don't have the two rules you mention.

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Re:World's First Kitchen-Free, Robot-Run Fast-Food Restaurant by nathan_long on Friday November 30, 2012 @01:27PM (#4854592)

Plenty of jobs don't have set schedules or require you to march lockstep. But even CEOs of tech companies can't say to potential clients, "sorry I missed that meeting and didn't call, I wasn't feeling good..."

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