Weird History Food · SEASON 4
What Happens When All Of The Waiters Disappear?
Episode 137 · 2025-11-25

Episode overview
Artificial intelligence has people everywhere wondering whose jobs are next — Writers? Developers? Maybe even yours. But one industry’s already feeling it: restaurants, where touchscreens and robot servers are quietly taking over. have YOU ever been served by a Robot? Have you taken your own order on a flatscreen at a fast food joint? Where Was it? Any hiccups in your worder?
12 minutes
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