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No, coz people like to be served in restaurants by humans.

Horn and Hardart pioneered the automated restaurant concept and while they were popular during the great depression when belt tightening was a sheer necessity, once growth and good jobs returned they died out.

Now that wealth inequality is back with a vengeance wait-staff automation is back with a vengeance.



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