Robots are waiting to serve coffee and other beverages at the Henna Cafe, or strange cafe, scheduled to open on Thursday at the Shibuya Modi commercial building in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo.
Major travel agency H.I.S. Co. is opening the cafe, where customers place orders via a ticket-vending machine, receive a QR code and hold it up to a machine on the counter. Sawyer, a U.S.-made robot using artificial intelligence, will grind coffee beans, control fully automatic drip machines, and offer customers their beverage.
There are seven kinds of beverages on the cafe's menu, and a cup can be prepared in two to four minutes.
A cup of authentic dripped coffee is 320, yen while a cafe latte is 380 yen.
An official of H.I.S. said, "Based on customers' responses, we want to open the same kind of cafes across the nation."
The H.I.S. group company also operates Henn-na Hotel, at which robots take care of guests.
Read more from The Japan News at https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/
