JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Rude customers, long hours, fear of catching COVID — just some of the reasons why restaurant workers have been quitting and restaurant owners are struggling to survive. I know ...

FREDERICK, Md. (AP) — While the thought of a robot delivering food and drink at a restaurant may hearken images straight out of a Star Wars cantina, the droid helping wait tables at one Frederick ...

A local sushi restaurant struggling to find a full-time worker decided to go a different route in the hiring process. Yanagi Sushi in San Luis Obispo has implemented a robot server known as BellaBot ...

MADISON HEIGHTS, Mich. - You may have already seen them in restaurants: waist-high machines that can greet guests, lead them to their tables, deliver food and drinks and ferry dirty dishes to the ...

LOS ANGELES, May 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Next Robot, the culinary robotics company transforming commercial kitchens through AI-powered commercial cooking robots is excited to announce the debut of ...

If you finish a bowl of pasta at Tokyo's newly opened E Vino Spaghetti restaurant and want to say thank you to the chef, don't bother: all eight of its noodle dishes are being prepared by an automated ...

When Arvi Sabherwal, owner of Toast – Indian & Asian Fusion in Zephyr Cove, took over the restaurant in November of 2022 he wasn’t anticipating the large challenge that many other local restaurants ...

Bear Robotics, founded by ex-Google developer John Ha, works to improve restaurant processes through automation. The startup's robot waitress, dubbed Penny, has sensors that allow it to deliver food ...

CONCORD -- At the Cajun Crack'n seafood restaurant in Concord, something's cooking and not just in the kitchen. "We walked in and we saw it moving around. It was very exciting to see," said customer ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla — In the last year, Blue Bamboo moved to a new location off San Jose Blvd. Owner, Dennis Chan says this was their chance to build the restaurant from the ground up. “Were able to ...

Robots waiters can be a solution for the restaurant industry's labor shortages worldwide, and many businesses are already embracing the change, Getty Images for Nightclub & Bar Media Group You may ...