An AI opened a coffee shop in Stockholm and started hiring. Chaos ensued.
Barista Kajetan Grzelczak prepares pastries at the Andon Café in Stockholm on April 27, 2026. It looks like any other coffee shop, but this Stockholm cafe is entirely run by an AI chatbot - with a human barista following orders. Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP via Getty Images
ByCamille Tuutti,
Freelance Tech Writer
In a coffee shop in Stockholm, the manager is an AI agent named Mona. She does hiring, inventory and nearly everything but the actual pouring, which humans still do. In her first two weeks, she brought in about $4,700 in sales and ordered 6,000 napkins nobody asked for.
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