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The rise and rise of cheap hotels has bred a new variant of smart hotel where the door and the room can be controlled by a mobile phone application. With no room service, selectable coloured interior lighting, no fridge, and no door key Mi-Pad in New Zealand may be an indication of what hotels will be like in the future. With a smartphone app to control the front door, lighting, order room service, room temperature, and message other guests the hotel truly offers self service. If this catches on, how many other hotels will switch to automated service to save money on staff wages?
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(Score: 2) by edIII on Sunday November 18 2018, @05:36AM
Or in other words, free housing for those with the requisite skill sets.
Hey, you get rid of all the staff, who is left to figure out that you're not a robot, and that there always seems to be at least 1 room in maintenance mode? They're not getting rid of room service. Just automating it. So that room in maintenance will have a strange fondness for beef stroganoff.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.