# FoodTube—Fast Food via Pneumatic Tube

**URL:** <https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/foodtube-fast-food-via-pneumatic-tube/2781>\
**Category:** The Happening World\
**Tags:** new-zealand, pneumatic-tube, fast-food\
**Created:** [21 February 2023 10:50 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/foodtube-fast-food-via-pneumatic-tube/2781 "2023-02-21T10:50:26Z")\
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**Post date:** [21 February 2023 10:50 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/foodtube-fast-food-via-pneumatic-tube/2781/1 "2023-02-21T10:50:26Z")

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[![](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/uploads/default/original/2X/b/b146e22ea8b90f8dfe2701bfd9cb922c979aa21e.jpeg "This café sends food through pneumatic tubes") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTHZLKFblKo)

It sounds like one of those 1890s newspaper features about “Life in the 20th Century”, where home kitchens would be replaced by personal telegraphs with which you ordered food from a central kitchen, delivered piping hot in minutes directly to your house by [pneumatic tube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTHZLKFblKo).

Well, at C1 Espresso in Christchurch, New Zealand, your burgers and fries arrive directly at your table, shot at 140 km/hour from the kitchen through transparent pneumatic tubes that let diners see food on the fly.

Here is a _Vox_ article about “[The golden era of the pneumatic tube](https://www.vox.com/2015/6/24/8834989/when-the-pneumatic-tube-carried-fast-food-people-and-cats)”.

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