[neogodless]

In Fifth Element, the bartender is a robot. (Works of fiction may or may not reflect our future!)

Whether customers prefer that or not may or may not matter to the business decisions that are made (given that it's not a perfect customer-driven market.)

Have you been to McDonald's? They really want you to use a touch screen in-person, or an app even though you're in your car, talking to a person.

Perhaps an underground movement can maintain a grass roots database of "real human service" locations, after the revolution.

[guhidalg]

A bar is not McDonald’s. Robot bartenders have existed for some time but people go to bars for the human connection not simply to consume alcohol. Even here, a human bartender could probably benefit from a robot doing the work of cleaning glassware and restocking ingredients for them.