NO TIPPING
My plans to topple the Motormat by flipping it on its side have been foiled!!
this post was submitted on 05 Nov 2023
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That's not a demand. It's saying you can if you want but you don't need to because there is no server.
Still shitty that it's a perk but still.
Only in America lol.
US in that time period is pretty wild! They have:
- restaurants where you dine in your parked car
- movie theaters where you watch movies in your parked car
- camping grounds where you sleep in your parked car
What else do I miss? Was there any other popular activities done in parked cars?
- Remote woodlands where you fucked and / or got killed by monsters in your parked car
Dogging.
Hotboxing?
What the hell were they trying to do with those lines that are impossible to park between?
I think it's so you get centered as much as possible so you can reach the conveyor on the first try. When cars were more standardized in width. And so they don't waste space.
I’m surprised there isn’t something like this being done now in the Bay Area as a “revolutionary, employee-free, AI-powered robotic dining adventure”. Of course the screen would still flip around to show:
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NO TIPPING
Cool but I wonder how they enforce that
The point is you don't have to tip a server not that they disallow tips. It's advertising it's cheaper.
Any extra money that goes in with the bill is treated as asking for change, one presumes.
Sure but the customer can leave money with dirty dishes, drive off and never be seen again.
I think it’s more of a suggestion: “We pay our employees to provide good service. If your experience was excellent, feel free to tip but don't consider it mandatory.”
Order and money goes in on the conveyor belt, food comes out on the conveyor belt. Truly a vision of the future!
We’ve been lazy pieces of shit longer than I’d realized.
Damn, I'm almost certain I've had a dream about a place like that. Looks too weird to be real.
I'm assuming lots of smashing into the conveyor belts is what lead to this place's demise.
That's not going to need a lot of maintenance.
it's just simple conveyor belts in a region of mild weather... not a lot to go wrong, there
It's clearly not simple conveyor belts. Look at the picture. There are big boxes the food goes into that have to be pushed out and then back. And then multiply that by the number of cars and you've got something that's going to add too much maintenance costs onto a low margin restaurant.
It’s clearly not simple conveyor belts. Look at the picture. There are big boxes the food goes into that have to be pushed out and then back.
Yes, there's one box attached to the conveyor that goes back and forth, and a second , larger box at the carport that has some degree of motion, adjustable by the consumer. The situation is explained in more detail in the article link I posted.
My point stands that there weren't a lot of complex parts involved there. There was a motor for each unit inside the restaurant which probably received the greatest wear & tear, which wasn't all that much, considering. Compare that to motors powering assembly line conveyor belts, and even at full capacity, these were operating a few minutes per hour. So, pretty light work.
And then multiply that by the number of cars and you’ve got something that’s going to add too much maintenance costs onto a low margin restaurant.
The whole point of the restaurant was to lower costs all around, not unlike robots & AI replacing labor, and evidently they were successful. The place did great business upon opening and went on for several years. From the article, it seems to be implied that consumers simply got tired of the gimmick after a few years, perhaps preferring the human touch. It did not mention maintenance issues nor associated costs.