A shop owner in China has put a slide outside her window so she could deliver food to customers in no time.
A shop owner in China has put a slide outside her window so she could deliver food to customers in no time.
Shop owner (pictured) sends out a basket of food down a slide to the customers in Beijing Photo:miaopai
The store advertising “mung bean ice porridge”, or sweet Cantonese congee with green mung beans, uses a metal slide several metres long to send the orders down to the customers waiting at street level, according to video from online news broadcaster BJ Time.
As the kitchen is located on the first floor of a residential building, it operates out of a window with a blue-backgrounded menu displaying dishes outside and green shrubbery just below it.
In a video of the store in operation, a woman is seen placing the store’s dishes – wrapped in plastic bags – in a basket which is lowered to customers standing on the footpath.
The basket sends two portions of liangpi, or Chinese rice noodles, each time to customers Photo:miaopai
The basket is attached to the top of the slide by a red string, guiding the dish safely to the bottom, which flattens out into a sort of landing area for customers to pick up their orders.
After the food is collected, the basket is pulled back up to the store’s window by the string.
The shop owner said the door of her takeaway store had been blocked by the authority, which led her to come up with the solution Photo:miaopai
The restaurateur explained that the entrance of the shop had been blocked a year before. This means she could only serve her customers through a window.
‘There used to be a door on this side of the wall, but now it’s been turned into a wall and a window,’ she said.
‘Customers have to walk around the building to come in as there are shrubs separating the shop and the pedestrian road.’
To cut the delivery time and cost, she put a slide outside the window to allow customers to get their food.
The slide allows the customers to pick up their orders without walking around the building Photo:miaopai
Web users were impressed by the shop owner’s idea. They said this could be ‘China’s fastest food delivery service’.
‘You make an order, scan to pay and pick your food from a slide right after! This has to be the fastest food delivery ever,’ said ‘Ytbubu’.
But some commented that the slide had been removed by the urban police.
‘The slide’s gone. Chengguan (urban police) came and ordered them to take it off,’ said ‘paiyierdui’.
User ‘Tangjie’ suggested that the urban police had confiscated the slide because they claimed it had ’caused disturbance to the public’.
