Today, mmm-yoso!!! has another post about food for you to read. It's written by Cathy, since Kirk is still on vacation.
I wrote about Tom's #23 last November and some things here are pretty much the same, but some changes have occurred.
Walk up, order, pay…and you are asked where you will be sitting- the table numbers are tall and visible from the cash register; you aren't handed one to put on your table. Why?
Because your food will be delivered to your table by Tomcat!
The Mister ordered a chicken fried steak breakfast ($10.99), with home fries and over easy eggs. Beautiful, orange-yolked eggs. Perfectly crispy fried steak, wonderful sausage gravy, crispy. skin-on potato chunks. 
Instead of toasted bread, He chose French toast ($1.99) Eggy, crisp with a fluffy interior. Really nice.
I decided on a breakfast sandwich with ham on rye toast ($5.49). I nice, thick slice of ham with lettuce, tomato and mayonnaise along with the folded egg omelet.
Good food and a fun time.
Tom's Famous Family Restaurant #23, 505 West 5th Avenue (at Centre City Parkway) Escondido 92025 Open daily 6 a.m.-10 p.m. Breakfast served all day
Tomcat talks to you, politely (even says "goodbye") and knows when all of your order has been removed from the shelves.
I love robots moving in. My friends in Shanghai have seen them all over for years and its about time they are making a big move here!
I want to go to Tom’s just to see the robot in action! Just kidding , the food is pretty good.
so cool
Next thing you know robots will do the cooking and there will be no humans.
It was unexpected to see a robot at a local diner in Escondido, Dereck! Such fun.
The Mister and I talked about going back the next day, Sandy! The food here is not fancy and it is well made. Very much a neighborhood place.
It was very cool, Kat!
No, Soo! The men working on the open flat top griddle behind the cash register is one of my favorite things to watch. Artificial Intelligence cannot ever make a perfect over easy egg!
If you want to see a really funny robot working, check out pho ca dao in Mira Mesa. I can’t tell if the employees appreciate it or not, but they are going through some teething issues there.
A robot delivery of a bowl of steaming pho? Must stop there soon! Thanks for the tip, Dereck!
Robot servers are a thing now, I guess! We saw one at Pho Ca Dao in CV. Very amusing to watch.
So surprising to see the server here, cc! Tom’s is a great diner and not that large, except is a chain…so maybe they got a bulk discount. In any case, it was fun and the employees still walked around refilling beverages and cleaning tables, as well as having to set up Tomcat to deliver to the table, so I doubt that many employees were replaced.