Cafe staff can be annoying,but they are way better than the mechanised alternative. I like handing my money to a human beingHardly a week goes by without persuasive evidence that at its heart our capital is being transformed into a sterile, Ballardian dystopia for wage slaves whose only respite from corporate inertia comes in the form of an adult bouncy castle, and the consumption of photogenic avocado kale caesar salads. Today’s exhibit: salad chain Tossed introduces a current cashless,department, where the need to communicate with a fellow human being is entirely removed from the equation. You simply order your food at a self-service kiosk and proceed to a collection point to pick it up.
Because much of London is so prohibitively expensive, and this makes sense. For there must be every chance that soon we will experience a desperate shortage of snappy food workers,retail staff, waiters and bartenders. When that happens the only way to avoid an uprising may well be to treat the commuter population like gerbils, and sustaining them with nourishment anonymously served at regular intervals.
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Source: theguardian.com