gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » restaurant http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:52:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Is that the future ? Waiter free Restaurantshttp://www.ghacks.net/2007/08/29/is-that-the-future-waiter-free-restaurants/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/08/29/is-that-the-future-waiter-free-restaurants/#comments Wed, 29 Aug 2007 06:33:24 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/2007/08/29/is-that-the-future-waiter-free-restaurants/ Companies try everything to reduce labor costs to a minimum by automating, which simply means replacing humans by computers, and outsourcing, which means producing in countries with lower labor costs, processes. The ideal world for them is a world without labor costs at all to maximize profits and please the shareholders.

A restaurant owner in Germany had the brilliant idea to replace waiters with a automated system that would send the food on rails right from the kitchen to the customer who ordered the dish. Customers order their dishes using a touchscreen that is also keeping them informed about deliver time and managing payments with an ATM like system.

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The kitchen is located on the top floor of the restaurant and dishes are servered using the rail like system and gravity to reach the customers. No word however on how the plates are making their way up again after the visitor finishes his meal.

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