I think you're overestimating how long it'll take until we have automated restaurants. I think we'll have deployment of several fast food places with automated drive thrus within ten years.
Though I expect it to be a touch screen coated with thick plastic that horribly obscures the actual menu. Like a shoddy ATM at a corner store.
Then again, I'm perpetually disappointed with the slow pace of advancement. I often expect too much.
I guarantee you that there will not be a fully automated fast food restaurant in 10 years, possible exception being a massively inefficient MIT Science project.
There is just no way to make it economical versus hiring humans for $10/hour in that time frame.
Though I expect it to be a touch screen coated with thick plastic that horribly obscures the actual menu. Like a shoddy ATM at a corner store.
Then again, I'm perpetually disappointed with the slow pace of advancement. I often expect too much.