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Episode 581 arrives hungry. Dan Morin opens the Relay show recorded on November 20th, 2024, with the usual Clockwise deal: four people, four tech topics, 30 minutes. Turkey is already in the room. Micah Sargent is ready for Thanksgiving, Kathy Campbell becomes the official sandwich decision maker, and the show quickly gets stuck on whether everything has to be soup or sandwich. It is silly in the right way. Then the restaurant topic gets practical. An iPad ordering setup sounds great until tea, of all things, disappears from the menu. That is the little snag the whole conversation keeps circling. Fast food delivery and novelty are fun, but service still needs a person within reach when the interface misses something ordinary. Hot tea also gets treated like a safety issue, because sending it around on a conveyor belt is funny for about a second before everyone can picture the mess. Kathy brings the verdict. The place is Kura Sushi, spelled out carefully, with locations beyond Portland in the very generous sense of a few other big cities. The answer is mixed: it cost a lot, but the experience was worth it. That feels about right for this panel. Novelty gets some credit, just not unlimited credit. Dan keeps the format in view, counting two topics down and two left before halftime. The ad break is clearly marked. Vitally appears as the sponsor, with customer service productivity, OKRs, customer outcomes, and platform language in the copy. The excerpt closes by sending everyone home, pointing paid listeners to an overtime topic about apps that bring joy, thanking Kathy and Matthew Cassinelli, and promising one more show before Thanksgiving in the U.S.

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A brisk Clockwise segment on automated dining that catches both the novelty and the friction.

Clockwise turns a restaurant visit into a neat little study of where everyday tech helps and where it still gets in the way. Dan Morin, Micah Sargent, Kathy Campbell, and Matthew Cassinelli keep the episode moving in the show's usual four-people, four-topics rhythm, with the…

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Four tech people, a pre-Thanksgiving half-hour, and a real debate about whether iPad ordering actually works.

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