High tech conveyor belt sushi
A look at some of the high tech tricks being used by one conveyor belt sushi restaurant chain:
- Used plates are put into a slot, tallying the price of what you ate and sending the dish back for cleaning. For every 5 plates eaten, a little slot machine game is played. Kids love winning prizes.
- Each plate has an IC chip. When a plate has been going around the conveyor belt for too long, it is automatically classified as old sushi and dumped.
- When there are only a few customers at the restaurant, the length of the conveyor belt can be adjusted.
- A computer system keeps track of how many customers enter the restaurant, and it calculates the amount of sushi that chefs must make at any given time.
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