Automated Sushi carousels to make flight attendants history

Automated Sushi carousels to make flight attendants history
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Aviation technology\'s main mantra is to provide comfort and luxury to customers and serving them with on-board snacks and beverages through a contraption hidden under the plane\'s floor will certainly make customers delighted.

Aviation technology's main mantra is to provide comfort and luxury to customers and serving them with on-board snacks and beverages through a contraption hidden under the plane's floor will certainly make customers delighted.


According to Skift, the patent filed by Sell GMBH, a German division of Zodiac Aerospace, which specialises in galleys, ovens, beverage and coffee makers, and other meal-service equipment, has filed a patent for a unique under-floor food distribution mechanism, a hybrid of a conveyor and automat machine, which will let airlines dispense food and beverage directly to passengers without trolleys and with limited human intervention.

The company stated that the obvious advantages to the passenger experience of unobstructed aisles, and suggested that flight attendants would be free to carry-out other in-flight service duties.

It also suggested that the food or beverage could even be selected on demand, perhaps though automated ordering via "computer-aided logistics."

Serving food in this fashion would also make it more efficient for airlines to keep the galleys, where the food is prepared, in the hull.
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