Cashless restaurants: as labor shortages grow more severe in the hospitality industry, a Tokyo restaurant chain called Gathering Table Pantry has opened a cashless restaurant, accepting only digital payments like credit cards and Suica — no cash transactions at all:
現金の管理を完全になくすなどして従業員の作業効率を上げ、深刻化する人手不足に対応する狙いだ。
深刻化
しんこくか · SHINKOKUKA
Becoming more serious or severe.