The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-08-23
.ITINERANT LUNCH ROOM
is LATEST APPARATUS
DINERS HELP THEMSELVES
AS THEY TRAVEL THROUGH
RESTAURANT IN A CAR.

Not many years ago there was a
patent granted for an eating arrange
ment adapted to hurried food consump-
ton at bar restaurants. An endless belt
carried a series of seats whose occu-
pants while feeding were automatically
conveyed along the front of the bar
(from which they could help them
selves to what they wanted) and were
dumped off at the end after a certain
number of minutes.
A great Improvement on this idea
is brand new invention, credited to
Lazarus Muntean, of Highland Park,
Mich, which takes the form of an eat
ing establishment on very large scale,
wherein an endless tramway runs
around a middle space provided Tor
cooking and serving purposes, the Gus
toners being carried by cars coupled
to trains.
The whole affair is a development Of
the cafeteria system Each of the above
mentioned cars carries square table
and four seats. The little trains are
continually moving along the endless
tramway, and the people seated at the
tables are borne slowly past shelves
from which they can help themselves
to the dished articles of food they pre-
fer. Coffee, milk, sandwiches or other
foods are at hand to be picked up.
There is an entrance platform, where
the customers are carried by an auto
matte stairway over a bridge that
crosses above one of the loops OF the
endless tramway. This lands them on
platform where they may observe
the days menu and give orders tor
any dishes they may particularly want,
These orders are sent to the kitchen
department by suitable signals, so that
they may be under way by the time
the patrons reach the dish-carrying
Shelves
Having given their orders they de-
scend by another stair to the level OF
the track, where they get aboard the
first train that comes along with all
empty table. The train is driven by
electricity, and each table is provided
with lighting fixture and motor for
operating fan. Also, in the middle
of the table, there is a fountain OF
drinking water supplied through hose
connection from a reservoir beneath
one of the cars, this convenient appa-
ratus being energized by an electric
pump.
The dish-carrying shelves are serv-
ed from steam tables, and from milk
and coffee urns, with attendants at
hand to replenish them constantly.
Dishes are placed so as to be within
easy reach of patrons conveyed by the
slowly moving cars, and as the train
passes along by the. shelves each Gus
toner may select what he wants. Used
plates, etc, are transferred to endless
belts, which carry them to washing
machines.
When each train of cars has gone
by the serving shelves it passes in front
of a cashiers booth, where the pa
tron pays what he owes for the food
to which he has helped himself. If he
wants any thing more to eat he can
STAY on board until his car again pass
es by the shelves. The trackage being
endless he need not be hurried with
his meal, but can stay aboard until he
is comfortably through. Then he dis
mounts at the exit platform, where he
ascends one stairway and descends an
other to cross the bridge over the loop
The idea, as explained by the inven-
tor, is ito provide a continuous service
restaurant by which large number OF
patrons may be fed in a comparatively
short time.