A struggling restaurant owner hired a robot to help her servers. Then the angry messages began.
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A small-town restaurant couldn't find enough servers to stay fully staffed, so the owner hired a robot named Plato, unaware of the pushback she'd get from customers.
"How was the experience?" a neighboring customer asked the group, leaning over his chair. Hannah Ray Lambert is an associate producer/writer with Fox News Digital Originals.
"Phenomenal," one woman answered, still looking a little confused.
But Plato, United Robotics Group's hospitality-oriented "cobiot," hasn't won over everyone in the timber town of Estacada, Oregon, highlighting the divide between businesses struggling to stay afloat and a customer base skeptical of change.
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