Do you feel like you never get good service at a restaurant? Are you impatient with the inefficiency of the wait staff? Then here is a restaurant that you would love. It's called 'sBaggers and it is the world's first fully automated restaurant (except the cooking).'sBaggers was opened recently in Nuremberg, Germany by business man Michael Mack, who wanted to "create a whole new restaurant system." The patrons order from touch screens and the food and drinks come to the table via a system of metal tracks. It looks like a roller coaster system has been set up inside the restaurant.
You can check out a video of how the restaurant works here. Did I mention that you can use the touchscreen consoles to send emails and text messages? When did they say they were opening one in the US?
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4-09-2008 @ 3:56PM
Pstk90 said...
Wow, I was just talking to my girlfriend about this type of idea. Except the concept was to have tables that would move along tracks based upon what meals you selected- (so that you could see different things going on in relation to your order)
This is like the "put shoes on your feet" instead of coating the world with leather of that idea.
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4-09-2008 @ 6:30PM
Brian J. Geiger said...
I'm not sure that this is really the first of its ilk. I mean, there were the Automats early in the 20th century that were basically a restaurant of vending machines, although you may not have gotten table service. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automat There's even a famous Hopper painting, though in the Hopperian way, it doesn't actually show any of the machines. http://www.uwm.edu/Course/448-192-001/art14.html
The Japanese have the Conveyor Belt sushi restaurants, which merely lack the touch screen. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conveyor_belt_sushi Perhaps the touch screen ordering crosses the line into the "first" territory, but this really seems like an evolution of a trend rather than something unique.
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4-10-2008 @ 12:02AM
CreamBunny said...
this is very, very old news... i saw this on a news segment over a year ago. there are also a few videos of this place on youtube; here's one of them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_9OCKVn4kU
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4-11-2008 @ 8:26PM
Raine said...
This probably wouldn't be such a brilliant idea in the US as the falling economy and decline in available jobs.
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