{"id":5985,"date":"2022-06-13T07:37:12","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T05:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/13\/not-so-dumb-waiter-uk-restaurant-chain-bella-italia-trials-robot-service\/"},"modified":"2022-06-13T07:37:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T05:37:12","slug":"not-so-dumb-waiter-uk-restaurant-chain-bella-italia-trials-robot-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/13\/not-so-dumb-waiter-uk-restaurant-chain-bella-italia-trials-robot-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Not-so dumb waiter: UK restaurant chain Bella Italia trials robot service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hospitality businesses look to hi-tech gadgets amid staff shortages after Covid pandemic and Brexit<\/p>\n<p>As worker shortages are felt across the hospitality sector, the owners of the Bella Italia chain are turning to robots to provide table service to customers.<\/p>\n<p>Big Table Group, which also owns Caf\u00e9 Rouge and Las Iguanas, is testing out the robot at its Bella Italia restaurant in Center Parcs Whinfell Forest in Cumbria, in the first such trial by a big restaurant chain.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2022\/jun\/10\/uk-restaurant-bella-italia-robot-waiter\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/63cf6deedbad0c35def50e59b180f722d477d46d\/7_0_915_549\/master\/915.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=8bae08faadac2a9b181e621e0b18b661\" title=\"Not-so dumb waiter: UK restaurant chain Bella Italia trials robot service\" \/>Hospitality businesses look to hi-tech gadgets amid staff shortages after Covid pandemic and Brexit<br \/>\nAs worker shortages are felt across the hospitality sector, the owners of the Bella Italia chain are turning to robots to provide table service to customers.<br \/>\nBig Table Group, which also owns Caf\u00e9 Rouge and Las Iguanas, is testing out the robot at its Bella Italia restaurant in Center Parcs Whinfell Forest in Cumbria, in the first such trial by a big restaurant chain. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hospitality businesses look to hi-tech gadgets amid staff shortages after Covid pandemic and Brexit As worker shortages are felt across the hospitality sector, the owners of the Bella Italia chain are turning to robots to provide table service to customers. Big Table Group, which also owns Caf\u00e9 Rouge and Las Iguanas, is testing out the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/13\/not-so-dumb-waiter-uk-restaurant-chain-bella-italia-trials-robot-service\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Not-so dumb waiter: UK restaurant chain Bella Italia trials robot service<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5985"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}