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WATCH: Robot Serving Food at Ocean City NJ Restaurant A popular restaurant in my favorite New Jersey beach town has a robot serving food to customers these days, at a time where many restaurants are having trouble finding help. The restaurant is called Island Grill, at the corner of First and Atlantic Streets, near where my family has a summer rental each year. My sister and her boyfriend drove down to OCNJ over the weekend, because the weather was so nice, stopped in at Island Grill for dinner, and was shocked to see the new robot server. The text I received from my sister was simple, but, s...

by Tyler Durden Friday, May 14, 2021 - 10:00 PM Restaurant owners are blaming generous unemployment benefits for the current labor shortage. Ahead of the busy summer season, some restaurateurs are warning they might have no other choice but to use robots.  According to Andrew Gruel, founder and CEO of Slapfish seafood, with 11 locations in the Southwestern US and new ones quickly opening up across the country, if the labor shortage persists, significant changes to the restaurant industry are coming in the form of automation. "What I fear in terms of the long-term effects of this is that ...

An Ocean City restaurant is trying a novel approach to the worker shortage this summer: a robot server named “Little Peanut.” The Island Grill in OC is trying out the robot to help server customers and bus tables. Island Grill owner, Andrew Yoa, told News 12 New Jersey, “Once we realized that we may not have any servers this summer, we were like, ‘Well we may need to look into this a little more.’” I don’t know if it is a full fledged trend, but there are reports from restaurants throughout the country employing the robo-servers; in Hollywood, FL, an eatery bought three of the r...