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Restaurants featuring improved efficiency through use of pneumatic systems for delivery of fast food products from a kitchen area to a food delivery area, such as in an out building, can revolutionize the fast food industry. A customer order entry station is located on a first side of the restaurant

Restaurants featuring improved efficiency through use of pneumatic systems for delivery of fast food products from a kitchen area to a food delivery area, such as in an out building, can revolutionize the fast food industry. A customer order entry station is located on a first side of the restaurant, and an order unit transmits order entry information to an indicator located adjacent to the kitchen area. A pneumatic dispatch station located adjacent to the kitchen area is connected via a second dispatch unit located in the food delivery area to a pneumatic tube. Upon the taking of a customer\s order, the order entry information is acted upon by food service personnel who prepare food products such as sandwiches and load them into the kitchen area dispatch station for transport to the food delivery area. The food products reach the customer who has, by this time, navigated around the restaurant to the out building. Soft drink and french fry stations may be located in the out building, so that only sandwiches and other fast food products which can withstand substantial shock need be transported in the pneumatic food carrier.

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A restaurant which permits delivery of fast food products from a kitchen area to a food delivery station, comprising: a. a first dispatch station located adjacent to the kitchen area, comprising a first port for loading a fast food carrier; b. a fast food order indicator located adjacent to the kitc

A restaurant which permits delivery of fast food products from a kitchen area to a food delivery station, comprising: a. a first dispatch station located adjacent to the kitchen area, comprising a first port for loading a fast food carrier; b. a fast food order indicator located adjacent to the kitchen area for indicating customer orders of fast food products; c. a second dispatch station located adjacent to the food delivery station, comprising a second port for loading the fast food carrier; d. a pneumatic tube connecting the first and second ports of the dispatch stations; e. an air supply for applying pressure to the pneumatic tube in order to cause the fast food carrier to be dispatched from the first dispatch station to the second dispatch station, and from the second dispatch station to the first dispatch station; f. a control on each dispatch station for actuating the air supply; g. an order entry unit at an order entry station, into which unit, customer orders for the fast food products may be entered and transmitted to the order indicator located adjacent to the kitchen area; and h. a fast food carrier adapted to contain a fast food product and transport it through the pneumatic tube from the first dispatch station to the second dispatch station.