Aug 27 2007World's First Automated Restaurant
A new restaurant in Nuremberg, Germany is opening with no waiters. Because it's an automated restaurant! Named 's Baggers (yes that's correct, it starts with an apostrophe) the restaurant's only employees are the cooks (who should be replaced with robots). Patrons order via touchscreen (which doubles as credit card paying device), and the food is delivered via gravity from the kitchen above along steel rails. This place is awesome, and anyone who has been let me know. You know what else is cool? I've heard that if you have two legs or a wheelchair or even a walker and can locate the door all the food you order is free.
A few more pictures after the jump, including one of two vagrants clearly involved in identity theft.
UPDATE: Video added.
World's First Automated Restaurant [therawfeed]
Reader Comments
1. Ll - August 27, 2007 3:52 PM
Kinda cool... in a Jetson's kind of way
2. Tori - August 27, 2007 3:56 PM
Thought I'd point out the typo in the title - probably should be "world's", not "wold's".
3. lulu - August 27, 2007 4:07 PM
how do they get drinks?? they can't come down the rail!
4. Demonbane - August 27, 2007 4:11 PM
So... when you order soup... and it spills... who cleans it up?.............penis
5. fag - August 27, 2007 4:22 PM
yea worlds first.. except for the thousands of these that have existed in japan for f***ing years.
6. BNew - August 27, 2007 4:40 PM
Yay! No more tipping!
7. BlighedArt - August 27, 2007 6:44 PM
Haha, that looks pretty cool. :D I'd like to go.
8. Faz - August 27, 2007 7:00 PM
Why couldnt they just put a cap over the drinks and soups.
9. buzz_clik - August 27, 2007 7:55 PM
"Hey fruit... fruit please! Retract!"
10. RandomNigel - August 27, 2007 9:38 PM
How the hell do you say "'s Baggers"?!
11. Andrew Mudd - August 27, 2007 9:50 PM
Uh, first except for the Japanese restaurants and that whole Horn & Hardart's Automat thing that was going down in Philly in 1902.
12. Darling Nicky - August 28, 2007 8:30 AM
Am I the only one who sees the realization of the Starship Bistromath?
13. c45j - August 28, 2007 2:15 PM
yay, no more social contact.
14. randomer - August 28, 2007 11:56 PM
HAHAHA....
i love c45j....
i'm sure they can do the soup and drink thing.
the name though is ridiculous.
it's scary to think that the future is coming faster then we thought.. O.o
15. kerang - August 29, 2007 2:20 AM
so who cleans the mess after the people? and puts back the napkins?
The waiters usually do that...unless were gonna have busboys walking around...
16. doh - August 29, 2007 9:05 AM
according to that one screen all they can order is different color billiart balls.. pretty sweet to have that for lunch...
17. Angela - September 16, 2007 9:53 PM
This is cool, but we have something like it where I live. The only difference is that a toy train brings out the food. You order on a phone that is placed on each table. The only time you see a waiter is when they bring out the drinks.