Unique restaurant food serving techniques - videos

[Jon]

Unique restaurant food serving techniques.

Fritz's Railroad Restaurant in Kansas City, Kansas. Apparently invented by Fritz himself in the early 1970s:



Similar concept, but mainstream: McDonald's restaurant in Sydney, Australia. 41-second video:

Best one:

[mklotz]

Floating sushi boat restaurants are popular in many places...

Conveyor belts are often used in place of the boats...

[mklotz]

Model trains are often used too...

[Jon]

Nice. Interestingly, the Fritz's Railroad Restaurant setup was not originally intended to be characterized as a train, but popular opinion turned into a novelty theme.

The patented system was primarily intended to help with the shortage of labor which was a constant headache as he tried to operated both restaurants efficiently. Once the system, nicknamed the "Skat Kat," was installed at the 18th street location in the early 1970's, however, people began calling it a train. At first Fritz played down the railroad aspect of the Skat Kat, but he eventually decided to go with this popular theme. Train memorabilia and engineer's hats for the kids enhanced this concept. Now we can't imagine it any other way.

[Beserkleyboy]

Jon, way cool stuff...sort of like the Rube Goldberg of fast food...
here's a link to an article about the Macca's shop, at Sydney International terminal. Cheers
McDonald’s new Sydney store has ‘kitchen in the sky’ that sends burgers down overhead conveyor belt | Daily Mail Online

Jim in Sunny Sth Coast NSW

[Jon]

Noodles delivered by waterfall.

[ranald]

Noodles delivered by waterfall.

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BIT like KFC feeding chickens (hopefully they aren't getting their own dung fed back as in a documentary i saw on fast food chickens)

[ranald]

Noodles delivered by waterfall.

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Also on second look they similar to our pollies with their snouts in the trough.

[Jon]

[Toolmaker51]

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Did this one summer.
On a farm.
In a trough.
None of those diners took phone pics...