The Future of Restaurants?
May 20, 2009 by Liz Lewis
Filed under Adventure, Diets and Dieting, Food and Drink
Looking for somewhere different to eat?
Check out this restaurant in the Netherlands called Restaurant of the Future.
It looks like a restaurant. It acts like a restaurant. But it’s actually a living laboratory where scientists can monitor and study what and how people eat.
The scientists, thankfully, are not standing at the tables, clipboard in hand, watching the customers eat. Instead customer’s eating habits are monitored by cameras that are discretely in the ceiling.
In fact, the only way that customers even know that they are participating in an ongoing research project is because they are given a questionnaire and research waiver to sign when they arrive at the front door.
Unless they are looking closely, they probably won’t even notice the ceiling cameras or the black rubber scale at one of the cash registers that unobtrusively weighs each diners. Nor will they see how the staff weighs the food is thrown away to find out how much people are actually eating.
