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Company Pulls Delivery Robots From All College Campuses (futurism.com)

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College campuses across the country will no longer be swarming with tiny rolling robots.

Starship Technologies, a leading delivery bot company, announced earlier this month that it was ending its university operations and redeploying over a thousand of its meal machines. But the news is just starting to sink in, as various partnered universities all issue official communications mourning the program’s end like obituaries for a celebrity’s passing.

The time has come for the takeout drones to hit the big leagues, as the company intends to focus on doing deliveries for grocery chains and restaurants in cities instead. And shut-in, no-tipping undergrads from coast to coast weep.

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[–] AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Would be nice if you could tip the actual cook. Like the food preparation chain is visible on the receipt with boxes for sending a small tip. But only after the meal turned out to be amazing.

But overall it's cool that delivery robots will probably mean an end to tipping culture.

[–] hark@lemmy.world 1 points 38 minutes ago

As long as it doesn't become expected, but seeing how tips already work, it'll become expected no matter what. I'd probably see reviews complaining about the food tasting like shit but the reviewer leaving the chef "just the standard 20%" and vowing never to eat from there again.

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The world really needs transparency like that - tip your cook, tip the farmer that grew the amazing tomatoes, or stiff 'em all but at least know who they really were. Before placing your order, get a readout of where the fish was caught, and when... identify how close the chocolate's cocoa was grown to toxic lead contamination sites - before you take it off the shelf.

[–] AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah I'd love that, that would be the future.

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 1 points 1 day ago

That would be my future, if you make me king. Since the offers for absolute unflinching loyalty are a bit thin on the ground for the past couple of decades, I'll assume it's probably not the future we're getting.