Hot Pot, Hot Mess: Service Robot Goes Berserk In San Jose Dining Room, Must Be Tackled By Staff
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/hot-pot-hot-mess-service-robot-goes-berserk-san-jose-dining-room-must-be-tackled-staff
I am not too sure about robots.
The two Silicon Valley Haidilao locations I found on GoogMaps and on their corporate website are in Fremont and Cupertino. I
may have had a Sunday lunch at the Cupertino location, but the decor in the article is different from what I remember, and I do not remember a robot doing anything.
Hot pot is like a stew or soup, where you order the boiling hot broth, the meat, and the veggies individually and you put them into the broth when it all arrives at your table. The hot broth cooks your meat and veggies. The place we went to in Cupertino had noodles in the broth, so it's probably a different place.
That part of Cupertino has changed a lot in the past 30-35 years. In 1990, the multi-acre outdoor mall where that and quite a few other restaurants are located was an open space with a couple of old oak trees. It was and is bounded by Stevens Creek Blvd, Wolfe Rd, Vallco Pkwy, and Tantau Ave. Across St Cr was and is a couple of strip malls. Across Wolfe Rd. and part of Vallco Pkwy was the Vallco Fashion Park mall, now gone. Also across Vallco Pkwy are four buildings of my former employer Tandem Computers (not Tandy Radio Shack), now defunct. Across Tantau is another building formerly used by Tandem. All those buildings are now Apple Computers buildings.
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