’s also a restaurant owner, he doesn’t believe we can automate the entire restaurant and expect to deliver the kind of experience guests want. “It’s such a dynamic environment and I don’t think a robot can do [everything] yet,” he said. The strength of AI and robotics will come into play in the front of house, he noted, where robots can do simple tasks like running food to tables.
At one point, Ray steered the conversation towards the restaurant industry’s most hot-button issue right now, food delivery. Here, as elsewhere, panelists had fairly different viewpoints. Rivera, more a chef and artist than cook, pointed out that people come to his restaurant to see him at work, and that experience for the guest should be the number priority in an establishment like his. “[People aren’t] just coming to hang out,” he said of his clientele, who’s paying for things like tasting menus and watching those knife skills.
On that note, panelists had lots to say in terms of predictions for the restaurant of 2030. Collins believes we won’t see paper menus in 10 years’ time, and that ordering food will be so personal you won’t be shown anything you don’t like or can’t eat. If you hate broccoli, you won’t have to pretend to be allergic to it anymore, for example.
Rivera’s restaurant has already gotten rid of paper menus. Meanwhile, he relies a lot on social media to find out his guests preferences and glean inspiration for his next dish, which he aims to make as personal as possible for each individual guest. His version of the future is far less automated than that of Collins, but the level of personalization he aims for is nonetheless proof of technology’s reach over the whole restaurant experience.
For what it's worth, I'm mostly a programmer who dabbles in art on the side and I'll be sticking with Unity, but I bought the bundle anyways because I'd like to see if those sprite making programs are any easier to use than Photoshop, plus there's a crapload of art and music assets in there too. It's always a huge pain to find usable assets, especially if you can't make them yourself and you don't know someone who can, so this looks nice. Though now that I'm looking through it, it seems like a lot of this stuff can't be used outside RPGMaker. There's still a ton of stuff that can be used in Unity, though.

Also the front page doesn't explicitly say this, but the bundle includes Axis Game Factory + a lot of its DLC. I've never used it AGF but it appears to be a level editor for Unity, which is nice because the built-in level editing tools are somewhat lacking.ATLANTA (AP) – Tim Wakefield pitched six scoreless innings to win a duel with Javier Vazquez, and the Boston Red Sox blanked the punchless Atlanta Braves 1-0 Saturday.
Mark Kotsay drove in the game’s only run with a sixth-inning single.
Wakefield (10-3) came up with a performance worthy of the day he tied Roger Clemens’ record for the most career starts by a Red Sox pitcher at 382. His knuckleball was really fluttering on a sweltering day at Turner Field – it was 95 degrees at first pitch – and the Braves managed just three singles off the 42-year-old right-hander.
Wakefield became the AL’s third 10-game winner, joining Minnesota’s Kevin Slowey and Toronto’s Roy Halladay. Jonathan Papelbon worked around a shaky ninth for his 18th save.
Vazquez (5-7) certainly pitched good enough to win. He struck out eight to claim the NL strikeout lead from San Francisco’s Tim Lincecum (125-124), but a brief spurt of wildness in the sixth was costly.
TORONTO (AP) – J.A. Happ pitched a five-hit shutout, Jayson Werth homered twice and the Philadelphia Phillies blanked the Toronto Blue Jays.
In the first complete game of his career, Happ (5-0) struck out four and didn’t walk a batter to win for the first time in four starts, helping the Phillies snap a three-game losing streak. The victory was Philadelphia’s third in 14 games.
Werth hit a towering two-run drive into the upper deck, his 14th, and Pedro Feliz added a two-out homer to left. Werth’s upper-deck blast was the 14th in the 20-year history of Rogers Centre, formerly SkyDome, and the first since Toronto’s Vernon Wells in 2004.
Toronto left-hander Brad Mills (0-1) allowed eight runs on eight hits in four-plus innings, striking out seven in his second career start.
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Albert Pujols hit a pair of two-run homers, helping the St. Louis Cardinals pound 10-game winner Kevin Slowey in a victory over the Minnesota Twins.
Pujols leads the majors with 28 homers and 74 RBIs after his 29th career multihomer game, sixth this season and second in six days. Both homers came off Slowey (10-3), whose bid to take the major league lead in victories was a bust, and Pujols’ second long ball put the Cardinals ahead 5-3 in the third.
Josh Kinney (1-0) allowed two hits in 1 2-3 innings of relief for his first career victory.
Slowey lasted only three innings, matching his shortest outing of the season, and gave up five runs on six hits.
PHOENIX (AP) – Mike Napoli hit a tiebreaking home run in the top of the ninth inning to lift the Los Angeles Angels over the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Napoli hit an one-out, 0-1 pitch from Chad Qualls (1-1) 428 feet to center field to give the Angels their fourth straight win and 11th in the last 14.
Darren Oliver (2-0) pitched a scoreless eighth and Brian Fuentes got the last three outs for his major league-leading 21st save.
Los Angeles also improved its major league-best record in interleague play this season to 13-4.
Arizona has lost four straight and seven of eight. The D-backs are 0-7-1 in their last eight home series, and haven’t won a series at home since taking two of three from the Chicago Cubs on May 27-29.
CHICAGO (AP) – Gordon Beckham singled in the winning run with two outs in the ninth, and Scott Podsednik homered while tying a career high with four hits to lift the Chicago White Sox over the Cubs.
With the game tied at 7, Paul Konerko lined a single to left with one out off Sean Marshall (3-6) to start the winning rally.
Josh Fields ran for him and moved to second on A.J. Pierzynski’s grounder, and Jose Ascanio walked pinch-hitter Jayson Nix. Beckham ended it with a long drive to right and got mobbed near second base by his teammates.
Bobby Jenks (2-2) retired the Cubs in the ninth before the White Sox pulled it out in the bottom half.
NEW YORK (AP) – A.J. Burnett combined with two relievers on a one-hitter, Nick Swisher and Jorge Posada made Citi Field seem small with opposite-field homers, and the New York Yankees rolled past the Mets again.
Alex Cora got the Mets’ only hit, lining a clean single to center on a 0-1 pitch leading off the sixth.
The depleted Mets, playing with center fielder Carlos Beltran, shortstop Jose Reyes, first baseman Carlos Delgado on the disabled list, have been outscored 14-1 and outhit 22-4 in the first two games.
Burnett (6-4) struck out a season-high 10 in seven innings and walked three. Tim Redding (1-3) allowed five runs and six hits in 5 1-3 innings.
HOUSTON (AP) – Rookie right-hander Felipe Paulino pitched seven solid innings and the Houston Astros used a five-run third to pull away from the Detroit Tigers.
It was Houston’s third straight win and gave the Astros the series victory in this interleague matchup which ends Sunday.
The 25-year-old Paulino (2-4) came off the disabled list for the start. It’s his first win as a starter after getting his other victory this season as a reliever.
Detroit starter Alfredo Figaro (1-1), didn’t fare as well in his second major league start as he did in his first. He allowed 10 hits and eight runs in six innings after winning his first start by striking out seven and giving up just two runs.
PITTSBURGH (AP) – Delwyn Young homered and drove in a career-high four runs to lead the Pittsburgh Pirates to their fourth straight win.
Paul Maholm (5-4) allowed only two runs in seven innings and Jack Wilson and Adam LaRoche each had two hits and an RBI for Pittsburgh, which clinched a winning record in interleague play for only the second season since the format was adopted 12 years ago.
Willie Bloomquist had two hits and scored twice, and Billy Butler had two RBI singles