Restaurant Automation

Assessment of managers towards automation in hospitality

Establishments in Sta. Maria Bulacan

Chapter 1

THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND

Introduction

Technology has taken a big leap in the 20th century as the newer generation of restaurants has been embracing these new technological system called as automation.

Through the different stages of civilizations, man always tries to look for ways to make their work and life easier. Man has never been satisfied, so the concept of automation has been applied to different problems for different fields. Most of the companies or institutions nowadays are implementing automated techniques and processes to meet their growing needs, and it can be best defined by widely used of computers and other devices.

Technology such as computer programs, electronics upgrading continuously. Having computers in the workplace has enable the business to be more efficiently and has contributed in having on all around better businesses, using computers cut down the work time, people don’t have to write everything out by hands or type out on typewriters. This increase in usage of computer proves that computers have affected every aspect of human lives and have become one of human’s necessities.

Background of the study

Automation, the application of machines to tasks once performed by human being or, increasingly, to tasks that would otherwise be impossible. Although the term mechanization is often used to refer to the simple replacement of human labor by machines, automation generally implies the integration of machines into a self-governing system.

The term automation was coined in the automobile industry about 1946 to describe the increased use of automatic devices and controls in the mechanized production lines. The term is used widely in a manufacturing context, but it is also applied outside manufacturing in connection with a variety of systems in which there is a significant substitution...