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Connecticut Restaurant Will Use Robots To Bring Meals To Diners

A Connecticut restaurant is taking an unorthodox approach to addressing staff shortages: robot servers to serve meals. The operator of the New London location of the Shaking Crab tells The Day that the ocean-themed restaurant will use regular waiters and waitresses to explain the menu and take orders but that the robots will deliver the meals to the tables. Gulshan Soni tells the newspaper it's partly for showmanship and partly to address staffing shortages being experienced across the industry. The restaurant is scheduled to open to the public in early October. The Shaking Crab has more than two dozen locations in the northeastern U.S. and China, according to its website.

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