A hyped AI-based restaurant opened to fanfare last month in San Francisco; now its empty

A restaurant in a rural Oregon city couldn't find enough servers to stay fully staffed. So the owner hired a robot named Plato. She had no idea how much pushback she'd get from the community. A San Francisco smoothie startup promised to create customers "one-of-a-kind" recipes, but two months after opening, the store was shuttered. The shop, BetterBlends, used artificial intelligence to generate custom smoothies based on customer preferences.