West Loop restaurant owner Patrick Berger says customers get it, hearing about supply chain issues all the time now. “Most don’t notice” the shortages, he said. “The ones who do seem to be sympathetic. Where we’re missing sympathy with the customers is with service. They don’t understand why there is one server for 15 tables, and they are not getting the topnotch service they usually do.”
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.