DINING PER BUTTON.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 30 May 1914, Page 12

DINING PER BUTTON.

An electrical invention, which, it is claimed, will do away with waiters in restaurants and hotels, is being experimented with in Paris (states a London paper). Each table in the restaurant is to be fitted with a frame bearing the menu and a series of electrical "press" buttons corresponding with each item in the menu. The customer sits down before the already laid table, with a pile of plates and silver on one side, chooses the dish which he prefers, and presses- the corresponding buttons in turn. In the kitchen of the restaurant the number of the table and the number of the course required are signalled on a screen to the chefs and their assistants, and in a few soronds a steaming hot dish ap-pp-n:•■<?• in a little lift at the side of the din3f'<! table. The cutomer helps himself, presss.3 a button, and the dish disappears as silently as it came, leaving at the side of the ylate a little aluminium ticket indicating the sum to be paid.