AI and Robotic Revolution: A Glimpse into the Future of the Restaurant Industry | Modern Restaurant Management | The Business of Eating & Restaurant Management News

Imagine this: It’s the year 2035. You walk into your favorite restaurant, but there’s no human host to greet you at the door. Instead, you're welcomed by Tao, a sleek robot host programmed to seat you efficiently based on your preferences, even remembering your favorite booth from past visits. You take your seat at a table embedded with a touchscreen menu. Tap a few buttons, and your order is sent to the kitchen, where robots are preparing dishes with precision, ensuring perfect consistency every time.

Need a drink? Walk over to the bar where Tipsy, the robotic bartender with eight arms, prepares your cocktail with speed and accuracy that would put the most seasoned mixologist to shame. Your drink is poured and waiting within seconds. Throughout the meal, robot servers deliver your food and clear the table when you're done.

Sounds far-fetched, right? But this isn’t some distant sci-fi fantasy. This technology already exists today. Tipsy is a real robotic bartender at…

John Felico

John Felico, author of DRAFTING A DREAM, is a serial entrepreneur, acclaimed advisor, expert, and restaurant owner with over forty years of experience in the culinary industry. He launched his first business, selling sausages behind Kennedy Airport, when he was only seventeen. Ten years later, he opened a Dominic’s of New York food truck outside a Lowes store in Virginia. Over the next two decades, he grew the business to 175 locations and developed licensing deals to place its products in supermarkets and sports venues around the country. After creating additional concepts, including The Olde Glory Coffee Company and Staks Subs, Felico opened Auggie’s Draft Room, a self-serve tap house located in St. Augustine, Florida. Today, as Auggie’s continues to flourish, Felico works as an advisor to restauranteurs and start-ups throughout the United States.

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