I don’t hate the robot barista like I thought I would
TL;DR
The author visits a Seattle coffee shop with a robot barista named Jarvis, who makes a decent latte and addresses customers by name, challenging initial skepticism about robotic service.
In Seattle, the only thing we love more than coffee is our coffee shops.
On a six-block walk I pass at least a half dozen, each with their own vibe: one focused on chai, another inside a yoga studio, a Starbucks that's surprisingly busy for late afternoon downtown. I passed them all up to get to one shop in particular, where a barista named Jarvis would address me by name and make me a thoroughly decent latte with rose-flavored syrup - nothing out of the ordinary in Seattle. But Jarvis, unlike the other baristas keeping the city's many shops humming, is a robot.
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