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Unique restaurant food serving techniques.

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

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1mz5dqv_js


Best one:

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKhJVo_hW1A

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsyDTyweenc

Model trains are often used too...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLZbhFD3izg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dku_-7DeES4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9oJFIZ_Hh8

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.

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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.

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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

Noodles delivered by waterfall.

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Originally Posted by Jon

Unique restaurant food serving techniques.

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

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YEP!
KCMO This is 'ours'! A different type of novelty, some nice memoborablia, meniborabla, menoradabalai, cool stuff on the walls. Fun for kids, foods OK. I'd rather have a cute waitress. Even if she can't spell memorabia.

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

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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)

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Noodles delivered by waterfall.

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

Vytopna railway restaurant in Prague.

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I'm not good seizing opportunity on short notice, which of course ruins the whole idea. Anyway, I wonder how many of these food service railways sell ad space on the sides of various train cars? Most resemble conventional markings.

Additionally, I don't dine out much these days. But my favorite exceptional foods didn't need over the top atmosphere to attract customers. We used to say the best condiment was 'word of mouth'.

Tsurikichi restaurant in Shinsekai, Osaka, Japan.

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Fresh into the boat! Nice! I'm in...@¿@

As an old model RRer I have to say, "I Love It!".

Wait, no General Tso's Chicken? I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked. I guess they'll eat this all with chopsticks, while discussing the Chinese Zodiac animals featured on their placemats, and then polish everything off with some authentic fortune cookies, right?

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:embarrassed: Being of the third stage Water Dragon varietal the bounty of the sea is appealing, especially em'er softy crablets of Natural design and Fashionable Alone. And Don't fergit to scrape the splinters from your chopsticks...under the table of course. :lol:

no thanks I'll pass.I can go for sea food well enough, but not in a Chinese or any other oriental restaurant setting.

I couldnot eat seafood at eastern countries: Thailand (Bankok markets) has marvelous squid/calamari in the markets (about 5 filled a mini b-b-q ) but only for locals and the smell was regergitating stuff. Love seafood though, in the west. When I enquired to an intrepreter, the guy fed his family with the sales proceeds-hard to imagine when his bar-b que was the width of his skinny shoulders.

At least those trays in the video are stainless, but wouldn't want Delli belli.


Recently in Tasmania I almost gourged seafood as it was such great value for money( if shopped around). Didn't do my favourite prawns though as they all came from Qld where i live and were rather expensive. never mind, the lobster, calamari, snails, crab, oysters, salmon, other fish, green lipped abaloni, scollops etc made up for the scarcity of prawns. Now I'm salavitating. Off to have some western chinese!


Cheers

Somehow I never liked gimmicks like those. That last one with the carousel is ok as it is a basic tool for serving.

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The cartoon the Jetsons comes to mind

Novel or practical, I don't know. I see this more along the line of a robotic sweeper.
Hope those don't ally thinking we'll surrender Earth. EAT THIS OR ELSE!
I often edit post's, usually as a PS..........

Wait for it.

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OK First place the dishes on a lazy Susan give it a spin then walk around and position them correctly I can we the advantage of doing it this way.
"NOT"
Want to impress someone completely set up the place settings in a 5 star setting then spin the Susan and have everything land in the proper places

Here's what I think; to be clear, comment is not directed at any eastern HMT.net members.

No reactions are visible by any of the 5, the place setter or hostesses. 4 standing with hands folded, instead should be carrying 10 plates each, setting 4 tables in slightly more elapsed time. 5th joining that detail, group could complete 5 tables simultaneously walking between rows. Add 2 busboys; carts full of plates. Each attending her 'section' of each table, sort of a marching band parade maneuver.
This might be a restaurant, more likely preps for a buffet. Whatever, I cannot imagine why anyone would stage this, let alone record. Doesn't address any sort of service etiquette.
GIF demonstrates 7 plates in ~10 seconds, just under 1.429 seconds, equate 10 plates at average 15 seconds per table. No lost motion manipulating turntable, and they'd be distributed evenly, not haphazard.
If waste of available labor supposedly demonstrates degrees of opulence, I'm not buying it. Otherwise, a poor display of "our nation has low unemployment percentage"
Having overseen a few kinds of service with enthusiastic directees, what do such theatrics compensate or gain?

A script includes lines that read
"Go out west somewhere. Open a fine restaurant.

I'm gonna be the maitre d'.
Greet all the swells.

Go to work every day in a bow tie, tuxedo.

And all the staff say "yes, sir" and..."no, sir"...and "in a jiffy, Pete".
And all my meals for free.
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Best personification of supervision ever.

Having lived in Shanghai for 5.5 year, and eaten at so many of these tables, and watched many tables being turned, I've never seen this actually done like this.
I think none of them are a supervisor... I think this is one person showing off to the rest of her colleagues, and one of them is videoing on her phone.
The gal on the left kind of has a smirk on her face.

Watching this theatrics reminds me of the reverse, when as kids we copied someone who would pull a table cloth from the table leaving all plates,condiments, salt pepper, sugar & the like in place. We broke some stuff but gained expertise=LOL.
They weren't actually serving food.

Kebab (or Yakitori) eating trick.

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Kebab (or Yakitori) eating trick.

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Most people at least chew their food a few times before swallowing. Maybe drinking your kabob means you no longer have to waste time chewing making it the first true fast food

Oh good, now I'm on youtube. Sell commercials?
Food is sustenance, not a toy.

Better, but along the same lines. I guess if you were throwing a big barbecue, something like this might be reasonable. Shishkabbobing is indeed tedious.

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Make sure to have every setting perfectly laid out now, the mucky mucks are coming

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Better, but along the same lines. I guess if you were throwing a big barbecue, something like this might be reasonable. Shishkabbobing is indeed tedious.

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Tedious! not when you eating them. Takes a lot more time to prep.

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I knew a lady as pedantic as that. She started telling hubby to take off his shoes before entering the home er house. It continued after times he was instructed to strip to underwear then all had to come off & the marriage was over. A new form of foreplay I guess. She complained to neighbours that refused to take all off before entering. All folk around the area refused her invitations for morning tea. My partner lost her keys down a SW grate in front of her home and she went off at me for lifting the grate to retrieve same. LOL. Guess she is happy in her own presence.

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I knew a lady as pedantic as that. She started telling hubby to take off his shoes before entering the home er house. It continued after times he was instructed to strip to underwear then all had to come off & the marriage was over. A new form of foreplay I guess. She complained to neighbours that refused to take all off before entering. All folk around the area refused her invitations for morning tea. My partner lost her keys down a SW grate in front of her home and she went off at me for lifting the grate to retrieve same. LOL. Guess she is happy in her own presence.

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I can well understand wanting him to remove his shoes MY first wife decided to have our house re carpeted in white carpet. try and figure that one out we lived on a dirt road and she insisted on leaving the windows partially open winter and summer for the fresh air flow. Snowing outside no problem turn up the furnace she didn't care I made enough money to pay the utility bills. 100° outside no problem let the AC run constantly and never shut off. I was a Welder Mechanic / Machinist I had always removed my boots at the door because I didn't want to track in grease or chips but White carpet? Then to make matters worse she spent I don't know to this day how much on a pure white leather living room suit sofa recliners easy chairs and tables there is more color in skim milk than in that junk. OK probably part of why she is ex wife not eh white thing the constant disregard for where money came from. And yes I got into a habit of using the shower in the garage and changing clothes before going on into the house but I did that long before she went milk color on everything.
But the lady you described sounds to me like she may had developed a case of vestiphobic OCD and possibly even mysophobia my first wife was diagnosed with that one.

Funny thing, I take off my shoes inside the house but my wife doesn't. At least I got her to change to "yard shoes" before going into the chicken run.

WTH is this? Anyone? I think it's supposed to reveal a really cool plate stack at the end, but it just shows how they're sliding plates on the floor and then touching the bottoms of those plates to everyone's food.

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