I am sure my experiences are different than yours but I never considered ordering food peak human to human contact. Again only my own experience but at least in China there is always humans around to answer questions. It’s definitely not for everyone but I much prefer it for my day to day. I would rather go to a lucking coffee where you cannot even order in the store.

Didn’t say “peak”. Most of our interactions are mundane but what happens when we take them away little by little.

Right I did. I guess for those of use that don’t have other human contact those few moments with the front of house are meaningful but for me that’s not the case. But again unless I am going to a nice restaurant I don’t recall having much of any real human contact with the front of house.

It's not important on its own, it just slowly erodes the feeling we live in a society, the reminding that everyone plays a role, even a little one. It lets one get out of their social bubble ever so little, and appreciate that the world is full of people with a life just as rich as their own, which is easily forgotten. I can cook well, I go to the restaurant to be in society; impersonal chains and now impersonal service reduce the experience to functional feeding and are of no interest to me.

This is my point. It’s pretty scary. Ahead i would say…is true, it is already beyond blade runner dystopia