0:02 some melbourne restaurants are so
0:05 short-staffed they've resorted to robots
0:07 to serve food businesses have been
0:09 forced to cut back opening hours or
0:12 offer bonuses with thousands of jobs
0:14 still vacant
0:20 robot waiters are in demand making up
0:23 for a shortage of hospitality workers
0:26 the robot is a convenience and is
0:29 is help for the labor
0:31 issue it's a real battle in the hospital for
0:32 for
0:34 to get anyone
0:36 in different hours or the weekends the
0:39 prime minister is calling on australians
0:41 to get to work this summer he says by
0:43 the end of the year the country could
0:46 recover 280 000 jobs that were lost
0:49 during lockdowns the jobs are there now
0:50 and we want to encourage people to go
0:54 out and take those jobs 250 000 jobs are
0:56 being advertised across the country
0:58 including more than 7 000 jobs in
1:01 hospitality and tourism in victoria it's
1:03 forced many melbourne restaurants and
1:06 bars to operate on reduced hours because
1:08 they can't find enough staff ns robotics
1:11 has so far imported 50 robots from china
1:13 in the past year they cost just under
1:16 fifteen hundred dollars a month to rent
1:18 or up to twenty four thousand dollars to
1:21 buy the restaurants will soon be using
1:24 robots to do more than deliver food
1:26 there are plans to import machines that
