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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Fast casual dining Computer software |
| Founded | August 31, 2015 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Founders | Scott Drummond Tim Young |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, U.S. |
Number of locations | 2 (2017[1]) |
Areas served | California |
| Website | eatsa |
eatsa is a start-up company and fast casual restaurant chain based in San Francisco. The company provides automation technology to restaurants and also operates its own restaurants. With the eatsa system, customers place orders via iPad kiosks or a mobile app, then pick up their food from a self-serve wall of digital cubbies, without the need to interact with an employee of the company.[2][3][4]
History
eatsa opened its first restaurant in 2015.[5] By the end of 2016, the company had six locations in two states and the District of Columbia. In October 2017, eatsa closed its locations in NYC and Washington, DC, leaving only two locations in San Francisco, and announced that eatsa technology would begin to appear as an end-to-end platform in other restaurants.[6][7] In December 2017, Wow Bao, a fast-casual restaurant concept in Chicago, opened a new store using the eatsa platform as the foundation for a new, automated restaurant experience and shared plans to roll out additional eatsa-enabled locations throughout 2018.[8]
See also
References
- ^ "eatsa Locations". Retrieved October 27, 2017.
- ^ Constine, Josh (August 31, 2015). "eatsa, A Futuristic Restaurant Where Robot Cubbies Serve Quinoa". TechCrunch. Retrieved September 16, 2015.
- ^ How eatsa Works?, Washington Post, 28 October 2016.
- ^ "California vegetarian restaurant eatsa replaces servers with tablets and automation". CBS News. September 2, 2015. Retrieved September 25, 2015.
- ^ "Restaurant of the Future? Service With an Impersonal Touch". The New York Times. September 8, 2015. Retrieved September 10, 2015.
- ^ "Eatsa closes all but 2 locations". Nation's Restaurant News. October 27, 2017. Retrieved November 6, 2017.
- ^ "Perspective - This automated restaurant was supposed to be the future of dining. Until humanity struck back". The Washington Post. October 24, 2017. Retrieved November 6, 2017.
- ^ Stern, Neil. "With New Concept Wow Bao, Eatsa Shifts Focus From Quinoa To Technology". Forbes. Retrieved May 16, 2018.
Further reading
- Schneider, Avie (August 31, 2015). "The Restaurant With No (Visible) Workers". NPR. Retrieved September 25, 2015.
{{cite web}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Katy Steinmetz (September 4, 2015). "Hate People? Love Quinoa? Your Dream Restaurant Just Opened". Time magazine. Retrieved September 8, 2015.
- Fast food reinvented? eatsa, a fully automated restaurant, now open – Inside Scoop SF
External links
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