There’s a new restaurant in San Francisco that’s reshaping the way people think about food service. It’s called Eatsa, and it doesn’t have any visible workers, according to NPR.
The restaurant is a series of automats and iPads. Customers order their meal on an iPad, and it’s delivered to them in small glass compartments, NPR reported. About five cooks make the meals behind the scenes before putting them in the compartments. But otherwise — it’s a worker-less restaurant.
"With a virtual cashier and no wait staff, Eatsa is a seamless, personalized experience utilizing kiosk stations and a cubby pick-up concept which provides food when customers want it," the company said in a release, according to NPR.
The innovation at Eatsa reminds us that America’s future is getting more robotic and technological. It’s also creating new jobs that hadn’t existed before — some that might be difficult to explain to children.
Explaining jobs to youngsters can sometimes be difficult for parents, especially if it’s not an easy job to describe. Michael Wasik, CEO of Roomlinx, ran into similar problems when he tried to explain to his two kids what he does for a living, according to Forbes.
"A little more questioning and he found that his daughter thought he made sure the company was working smoothly by looking at its Web site, and his son compared him to Mr. Krabs, a greedy and bossy character in the world of SpongeBob SquarePants," Klau Kneale wrote for Forbes.
Parenting.com suggests parents keep the job description simple so that it doesn’t go over the child’s head.
Thankfully, Twitter users are here to help parents do that. Tweeters used the hashtag #DescribeMyJobToA5YearOld to describe their jobs like they were talking to a youngster.
If you work with food:
If you spend your day on the Internet:
If you’re the creative type:
If you work with numbers all day:
If you’re a teacher:
If you’re a fictional character:
If you have one of the most important jobs:
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Herb Scribner is a writer for Deseret News National. Send him an email at hscribner@deseretdigital.com or follow him on Twitter @herbscribner.