Germany is the first country in the world to open a robot restaurant. Well, not exactly robots, but close, anyway: touchscreens will replace the waitresses and waiters at the Baggers restaurant in Nuremberg, Germany.

From now on, customers will have to use the screens to select and order their dishes while waiting for them in a pot identified with a sticker and a color matching the customer’s table. Customers can also use the screens to send text message or emails while waiting for their orders. The Tehran Times reports that the Baggers restaurant “is the brainchild of local businessman Michael Mack.”

The tracks run all the way from the kitchen, high up in the roof, down to the tables, twisting and turning as they go. And down the tracks - in little pots with wheels fixed to the bottom - speeds food. Supersonic sausages, high-pace pancakes and wine bottles whizzing down to the customers’ tables with the help of good old gravity. One pot is spiraling down so fast, it looks like an Olympic bobsleigh (but it’s only Bratwurst).

According to Current, the restaurant still has some human staff to explain to its bemused customers how to use the technology, but fully automated restaurants are probably only a matter of time.

Everything is prepared from fresh. When it is ready, the meal is put in a pot and given a sticker and a colour to match the customer’s seat. Then it is put on the rails and dispatched downhill to the correct table. Manna from heaven, German-style.

And, of course, one other advantage to an automated system is that there is no need to tip.

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