page_title: Automated flight attending
section_title: Food delivery
hierarchical_section_title: Automated flight attending / Examples / Food delivery
caption_attribution_description: Seat back inflight entertainment systems in economy class on Jetstar's Boeing 787
context_page_description: Automated flight attending involves the use of automation to replace some of the tasks that are currently done by flight attendants.
context_section_description: In 1965, Martin Limanoff created one of the earliest automated food delivery systems, consisting of a square box that was designed to travel up and down the aisle along a monorail track on the cabin floor. However, it is not known if this was ever used on commercial flights. In 2015, Sell GMBH, a German division of aeroplane equipment company Zodiac Aerospace, filed patent for a food delivery mechanism that would distribute food using automated conveyor belts, allowing passengers to access their food on demand by pressing buttons on the in-flight entertainment system, causing the food distributor to rise out of the floor.
caption: A man using a modern in-flight entertainment system
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