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Pardon me for judging a book by its cover, but a bar controlled by a robot it simply bad news bears. Why? Because the robots will always put the minimal amount of liquor in cocktails, which is generally too weak for my liking.
The RoboBar can automatically pour cocktails, beer, wine, juices and soft drinks. Apparently, for the bar owner, this machine would significantly improve bartending by providing faster, cheaper and more accurate drinks. I guess the one advantage this system has, for the consumer, is lack of tip requirement. Unless, of course, the robot happens to be an animatronic Real Doll, then a tip if probably still required, even if it does feel a little creepy.
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this would definitely suck. free pour encourages extra alcohol, and the occassional free drink. this would be like south carolina, with its mini-bottles.
They stole this idea from iRobot and every other cheesey sci-movie, I say we file a class action lawsuit. I want to see some video of this sucker in action.
I saw this thing in operation at a recent food and bev convention. It was initially fun to watch, but was pretty weak as far as a practical solution. It needs to back up into a walk in cooler that houses a beer conveyor belt, it pulls more than one cup at a time (you know how hard it is at taco bell, now try being a robot)and it is slow. I seem to recall price as shown was between 100 - 300K. The best feature is the LCD panel mounted to the top of the industrial robot. I had a very bored looking female face that occasionally said things like " At least I won't show up drunk for work."
Man, it would be rad if they put alcohol sensors in that beast's belly, then every time it served a shot to a customer, it said "One for the doctor." Then it would take down a shot like a champ, then at the end of the night you could tell her about your marital problems and she'd serve you another one "on the house." You'd probably become friends, or possibly more. But what it all really comes down to, is the simple fact that booze is booze and I don't care if it is served to me by a robot or if its dribbling off the tits of a pregnent unicorn.
"You want some more."
/ Fifth Element anyone? Anyone?
Another problem:
RoboBar can't tell when Johnny Drinkstoomuch has hit his limit and should be cut off. All it will take is one lawsuit from an alcohol poisoning victim for everyone of these to be pulled from the market until breathalizers are installed into each of them. Problem solved.
New Problem:
Once these things have Breathalizers even if you have a DD or not you are cut off when RoboBar says so. I can forsee many a RoboBar ending up with a barstool for a head at the end of the night when he cuts off the 300 pound gorilla in the pink polo shirt after only three drinks and 4 shots.
Kay whore-eee-blay!!! The point of finding a good bartender is one that pours you stiff, is fun to talk to, introduces you to new drinks and the like, etc. The only reason I tip a good bartender is for these reasons. If it's a robot or just some schmo pouring weak ass drinks and dropping them off in front of me on their way to the next customer I'm not tipping $h!t. One of the best thing about your local bar/nightclub is the "social interaction". This eliminates the ONE person that will talk to ugly people when everyone is still sober.
Oh, and btw, Rizz, that unicorn quote thing had me shooting scalding coffee out my sensitive nostrils. You should get quote of the week for that one.
Why not just hook people up with an iv of alcohol and eliminate ALL the fun of drinking. Geez.
What, no Bender jokes? You should be ashamed of yourselves.
And what about iZac? "Outta SIGHT!"
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