What do you get if you cross a burger restaurant with a model railway? I went to the Vienna branch of “Výtopna”, a Czech burger chain, to find the answer…
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J Shinsen Express at indooroopilly shopping center apparently has a train deliver your meals.
Reminds me scene from Czech movie "Kulovy blesk", where one character used model train to serve liqueur to a guest.
Btw "Výtopna" means heating house – place where steam locomotives were heat up.
I went to the one in Prague last year. It's a very interesting concept. We were too busy taking photos and the train with our food took off again back to the kitchen 😀
Wait how many languages do you speak?
In a way it is somewhat similar to all those Japanese conveyor belt restaurants in Asia
Very cool layout for a restaurant.
There is one in the USA in the State of MN, the town of Hastings a restaurant that has a train running around the place close to the ceiling a train running that layout.
It also has replicated model of a lift bridge from the real one next door that crosses over the Mississippi River
It does not deliver food on the rails like this one but it is more of an added charm to the place
Ah I love Vytopná. Went to the Brno branch when I lived there. Thought it was the greatest place ever😅
When I was growing up in Baltimore, USA, back when dinosaurs roamed the earth. "Hamburger Junction" delivered your food by model train. Sadly, they closed years ago. But today in the resort town of Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, USA, "Buffalo Phil's" still maintains the tradition.
awesome my self being in model trains that ie awesome😊😊😊😊👍👍🚝🚝🚝🚞🚞
I live next to this place but never had the time to go. Thanks for the reminder :).
Wow… lets add that to the bucket list
There's one near Wisconsin dells in Wisconsin USA
Shades of "Thunderbird 6"
I love the Junction Diner in Chicago. The man who runs it is such a friendly guy.
A favorite barbecue joint of mine had a model train operating in it, but that train didn’t deliver food. It just circled the entire restaurant on a track that was about eight feet off the floor, great fun to watch. Sadly, that restaurant closed. That’s the only restaurant I’ve been that has an operating model train in it…
How cool is that!!!!
Check out the man show with James May and I’ll give you a hint it’s something to do with the customizing it brings you to a paper on a train.
Lots of sushi restaurants that do a similar belt idea where it stops at your table (some here in UK too). I wonder if it’d be easier to turn the delivery compartment into a train rather than use a model railway. Cool idea for model train enthusiasts though.
i believe japan has 1 aswhell
"Miniature trains keep having miniature accidents"
This is why you use commercially manufactured trucks/bogies and wheelsets even on scratchbuilds.
Ok, so, a couple ways I would do things differently here:
1. More conventional booth layout, with barrier-separated main lines and per-table sidings. G-scale equipment can easily make it around a 24in radius, you don't have to design THAT much around the tracks. Plus, this way you only have to have the bridges along the back end of the restaurant.
2. Deadrail it and run RC+battery power. I know first-hand how bad dirty rails can be for electrical conductivity, and a restaurant where drinks can spill and grease can splash about can be rough on the tracks. Train the wait staff to operate the equipment as well, they're more able to respond to issues than a computer.
3. Off-the-shelf chassis for rolling stock. If your equipment tends to derail then something's up with either the wheelsets or the track. And with the equipment they're using it's not the track that's the problem. Using some medium-length four-axle flatcars and bolting on a metal holder on top would be your best bet with something like this.
There used to be this concept around here some 30 years ago in the German city of Mülheim an der Ruhr in a specialty pancake restaurant. For me as a child it was quite incredible that my meal was delivered with a "toy train" – very exciting! But unfortunately they closed down the business in the past decade.
There is also a rollercoaster restaurant in Vienna. Does what it says on the tin. Food rubbish but rollercoasters delivery is good.
a waiting job that has more “train wrecks” than normal 😂
Back in the 60's and early 70's,a coffee shop / burger joint called The Hamburger Train existed on Queens Boulevard near 63rd Street, in the Rego Park section of Queens. As a kid, my mom would bribe me to go shopping with her to Alexander's (a large department store nearby), promising to take me to the Hamburger Train for lunch or dinner as a reward. The lunch counter was the only place for you to get your meal delivered by train, but it was a Lionel setup and incredibly fun. Closed sometime in the early 70's but to this day, is still one of my top 5 favorite places to eat of all time.
Great video.
Assumed this was going be in Prague, I've been to both there. It's amazing
In Bruchhausen in northern Germany there is a Cafe called Volldampf where the drinks and cakes are delivered by minature railway.
We have Genki sushi that delivers food on bullet trains 🙂
There's many restaurants like (or similar to) this in Japan. Mostly as sushi restaurants. You're able to order on your table's ipad and the sushi arrives by mini-shinkansen bullet train soon after.