Peter E Crull

US Patent:

56367104, Jun 10, 1997

Filed:

Sep 15, 1995

Appl. No.:

8/528978

Inventors:

Charles L. Ables - Rome GA
Peter E. Crull - Kennesaw GA
Donald E. Evans - Rome GA

Assignee:

Ace Food Services, Inc. - Rome GA

International Classification:

E04H 302
B65G 4905
B65G 5134

US Classification:

186 41

Abstract:

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.