The Culinary Union, which represents 60,000 service and hospitality workers in Las Vegas and Reno, isn't quite so cheerful.
Ted Pappageorge, the secretary-treasurer of the union, told NPR: "How do our folks make sure that the jobs that remain, that we can work them? And that we're not thrown out like an old shoe? We're not going to stand for that."
"We'd like to say we're going to be able to get an agreement. But if we have to, we're going to have a big fight and do whatever it takes, including a strike on technology," he added.
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"We have a lot of guests that are regular guests, and they come for the personal interaction. They don't come for the technology," Holly Lang, a cocktail waitress at the MGM Grand, told NPR. "There's some things you can't replace."