This café sends food through pneumatic tubes
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- C1 Espresso, in Christchurch, New Zealand, has a set of pneumatic tubes. But that's not enough on its own to keep a business running. ■ C1 Espresso: www.c1espresso....
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That run through the tube has perhaps the best sound my GoPro's ever recorded.
That was brilliant. Simply brilliant Tom!!
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That was so sickkkk
Confirmed. I smiled as soon as you mentioned it.
I was so surprised they said yes! Everyone usually always say no when you ask! That end shot was so amazing.
I think Tom really wanted to put his camera through a pneumatic tube system after the hospital video, and that footage did NOT disappoint, that was so cool
That felt like a really good waterslide but with less faffing with swimsuits!
I wanted to put me through the tube 🥺
He knows what our goblin brains want
It was surprisingly easier to follow what was happening and have sense of direction than I anticipated.
I know now what it’s like to be in one of the tubes in Futurama
You'd be surprised where they're still used in the UK. Supermarkets often transfer wads of notes from tills to the accounting room by pneumatic tube to reduce the risks of carrying cash through the store.
How fast can it go? Pump up the pressure!
Is the risk of carrying cash through a store that high in the UK?
@@bubbleboy821crime happens everywhere🤷🏾♀️
Canada is still using these in the same fashion too.
Tom!! I know this was a video specifically about the pneumatic tubes... but that cafe has some other rather cool features too like the passage to the toilets being a "hidden" entrance where you push a bookcase... or how you can dispense water from either the sewing machine or dentist chair etc... it's a funky cafe for sure!
Leaving the shot via hidden passage, with no explanation, would've been an interesting way to end the video.
And wheelchair bathroom is R2-D2 women is Princess Leia and men is Luke skywalker
Their tea is also really nice
@@akramdarwazeh1662 absolutely
Heath I concur with your sentiment 100%♡
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Oh my god I saw this thumb and I was like huh this is just like C1 here at home- OH. Fun fact, our city has almost no nightlife and C1 is partly popular because it's one of the only places open late at night.
Same. I was quite surprised 😯
SAME!
I didn't realize until I saw the old Alice in Videoland building.
Today I learned that the old controversial owner has moved along, so I'm hoping to visit C1 and try this out. :D
HEYYY IT'S AVATAR GUY
Which city do you live in? Because Christchurch has great nightlife! :)
As a kid, I thought that pneumatic tubes were the coolest thing. Good to see they're still around!
Banks with a multi-lane drive-thru still use them.
@@DetroitMicroSound but that isn't as fun
@@reinhardt3090 Def. true there! 😄
Tubular!
Idk if they’re common in every supermarket but at my local Market Basket (big supermarket company in Massachusetts and New Hampshire) they use one to frequently send money envelopes and stuff between the checkout area and the customer courtesy booth
That ending was everything I’d hoped for and more. An absolute thing of beauty.
The „and they said yes“ was quite surprising
Definitely Stargate-SG1 vibes.
@@fritzlb I actually wondered if he started the sentence in a "it didn't work out" tone for fun. :D
Should come with a motion sickness warning though
Yea, definitely brilliant
I liked the pause before "and they said yes", since often people have to turn down the camera journey for practical reasons. Really cool that we got that final scene of the journey through the tubes!
Tom really seemed satisfied about the yes too.
The thumbnail kinda spoiled the answer though haha
He really had me expecting the "no" and already wondering why they wouldn't let him
I mean, it was a definite no for the last tube system Tom visited (which to be fair involved medical stuff).
Same. That was nicely done, and he knew what we all were expecting.
In Germany this System is called "Rohrpost" - literally "pipe mail" or "tube mail". Very typical, German description. Little fun fact: During the day of the Apollo space program, messages delivered through pneumatic tubes replaced runners in mission control. During especially busy phases of a mission, there was just no time to return the empty canisters. Messages were read and the canisters were just dropped on the floor. The ensuing mess gave rise to mission control being called "The Trench" - because one guy looked around at some point, looking at the piles of empty message canisters and quipped "Gee, this looks like I am back in the trenches!", referring to the mess of empty shells that littered a firing position during battle. The phrase stuck.
's Baggers in Nuremburg Germany is another like this.
That's a great little story
Haha
Tubes gotta be fun in a massive office or city goverbment center
In swedish it is called "rörpost" meaning the same thing as in german
I felt unbelievably happy at the line "And they said yes!" Great video Tom!
Especially because he was trying to fool us beforehand into presuming it was a no! 😂
@@LHyoutube The thumbnail gave it away. 😄
"I asked the manager if I could film him and his missus getting busy on my GoPro. And they said Yes!"
it make me remember the portal 2 section when you trevel through the tube tube system
Yes!!! I was trying to remember what it reminded me of!
It is astonishing to me how closely the go-pro footage is to the cutscenes in Portal where you travel through the pneumatic tubes! Thanks for the awesome video.
the sound too!
I was thinking the wormholes in the Stargate TV shows.
Also Stargate!
normal person: cool tubes tom!
gamers: it looks like the thing in portal 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm now convinced that someone stuffed a microphone in a tube like this to get the sound effects in portal
Ever since I was a young boy, I've always wanted to see what it looked like to be sent through a pneumatic tube. Thank you for this!
I've heard that it sucks, hard.
Just watch Polar Express bruh
Loved seeing a real example of that, see heaps of examples of similar things in various films and games but they're almost always animated and sci-fi
I'm Tom Scott, and today, I'll be sending myself through a pneumatic tube to see how long it takes me to travel 2 kilometres.
would make a hell of a Tom Scott Plus video!
Futurama be like:
"i've overcome my fear for travelling in pneumatic tubes" nice, looking forward to this :D
Hyperloop be like :p
"And in my last ever video, I'll be..." (Just kidding Tom, don't do it).
You said you can find them in a 'few hospitals', but as someone who has worked in quite a few hospitals, I would say they are extremely common still in hospital settings. It's just simply the best way of getting bloods and other samples to the lab. The alternative is placing them in a box and having to ring the porters to come physically pick it up, or having a regular porter visit for higher-volume areas (such as ED).
I currently work as a Taxi dispatcher. About 30% of all calls are the hospitals requesdting samples transports.
The pneumatic tube thing might heavily depend on which part of the world you are referencing to^^
@@hanswoast7 Good point! My experience is in the UK
Many hospitals now have robots that just use the normal hallway to transport items around.
@@ArthurDickerson where are you at? Not common in my area
The camera going through tubes (visuals & audio) was remarkably like a Doctor Who opening sequence 😅. This was awesome - hope cafe gets rewarded with many new curious customers as result of this
Personally reminds me more of going through a Stargate
@@msekiller64 or the old series 'Sliders'.
@@msekiller64 My exact two thoughts.
It reminded me of the tube sections in Portal :)
A hospital I used to work at still uses pneumatic tubes. We'd used them to send blood samples to the lab quickly and works quite efficiently
Many hospitals, including the one I work at, use them because they are far more efficient than having people manually haul samples, which can sometimes clot if left out too long. It also helps us get results faster.
Same, i worked at one hospital here in Spain and they still used it back in 2016.
I work in a major FR hospital, can confirm, it's still used
same, I had a blood test just last week and commented on the tube system they have. Seems they might be more common than Tom suggests - at least in hospitals. This is in the UK in a reasonably (
Samples seems to be a good reason for for pneumatic tubes. At the company where my father work they have to take samples from deliveries (foodproduction, so truckloads of product) and the get send to the labs via pneumatic tubes. For the same reason, easy and efficient.
I worked as a cashier at Home Depot in Canada and they had pneumatic tubes between the vault and the cash registers. Anytime the till exceeded a certain amount cashiers had to make a deposit, at the end of the day as well all the money and checks etc went through the tubes. You could also request change if you were low on a certain denomination.
The Costco near where I live still uses pneumatic tubes for the same purpose.
The store i work for does that as well! One time €400 got stuck in those tubes lmao
Do you mind if I ask which Canadian city? It’d be fun to check out if I ever pass through
@@KazisCollection I know the Reno Depot stores in Quebec used to all have a system like this, not sure if they still do today.
@@KazisCollection we had them at a Home Depot in Ottawa
I work in a hospital, and like most hospitals in the US, it has a pneumatic tube system. When a patient has a feeding tube, it is not uncommon to send a bag of their medicinal food through the tube system from the pharmacy or nutrition department to the unit the patient is on. So hospitals also send food through their pneumatic tube systems, just not solid foods, more or less.
It's also a great way for the ED social worker to send a parking pass or something small up to an inpatient floor at 3 a.m. when they can't leave the ED and some rando floor nurse or provider requests something that can absolutely wait until the morning but they've managed to convince themselves that it's an emergency and can't wait until the morning.
Where in the US are you from? I live in Ohio and don't think I've ever seen a pneumatic tube system in our hospitals, granted I don't exactly hang around hospitals much.
When Tom said the local hospital still has a pneumatic tube system I thought he was about to tell us that the cafe has linked into it so they can send the doctors and nurses packed lunches. 🙂
I thought the same as well 😂
Me too..... And realistically, should try to make it happen .. Alas, complaints probably by the already established in hospice cafe'
But still.. Imagine delivery to a select section..... Maybe only servicing the Maternity Ward... An Analogy... Mwhahahhaahha
Hell, Even Stock up on Cigars !
They're on opposite sides of the CBD, unfortunately. Tubes would have to run over a kilometer.
@@hazels7967 Yeh.. "They're on opposite sides of the CBD, unfortunately. Tubes would have to run over a kilometer."
And ?
;)
Yes I thought do too...maybe in future!
The sound that the GoPro got going through the tubes is, unironically, incredibly pleasant to listen to, accompanied by the fascinating visuals of it's trip.
Kinda like an Euler's disc, isn't it?
That's Class that they let you send the gopro through!!! if I ever travel there I'm 100% visiting them just for letting you do that. That was awesome!
1:45 - you just *know* that Tom previously timed exactly how long it takes for that canister to get from the kitchen to his table, then coordinated with someone to send one at a precise moment, so that it would arrive at his table while he was at that exact point in the sentence. And that's one reason why Tom is THE BEST!!
That level of detail for/in a 3:49 Video. Awesome
@tinwatchman nah, he's timed longer speeches to weirder cues.
@Tin Watchman you're probably haven't watched enough of his videos.
I'm guessing he coordinated with someone to manually cycle the gate above his table at just the right time
@tinwatchman Watch his video on Dasani and say that again.
C1 is very popular with folks in the US Antarctic program, who pass through Christchurch on their way to work in Antarctica. I’ve spent many lovely afternoons there on my way to and from the ice. It’s also popular to bring some of C1’s excellent coffee down to the ice… there’s surely hundreds of kilos (if not more) of C1 coffee that has travelled to Antarctica.
If only they had a really long tube so they could send the coffee to Antarctica directly, eh?
I didn’t realise their coffee was so popular. I live in Christchurch so it’s convenient for me to buy it and I’ve been to the cafe before but I’ve never heard anyone mention their coffee before. I’m not a coffee drinker myself but I know a lot of people who are so I’m surprised they don’t use this coffee when it’s so popular in Antarctica.
Is the dream finally happening? A Tom Scott video from Antarctica? :)
Not sure if C1 sends a lot, maybe? But I know C4 Coffee Co. (Seperate to C1 but also in Christchurch) is a coffee roaster who send's many many kilos of coffee down to the Ice! (A lot of light roasts too!)
I can't believe I'm reading this! It's been years, but i carried this coffee down to the ice. Also that burger bus was nearby and a great place for a pint.
I think pneumatic tubes are still used quite widely in UK supermarkets. My local Sainsbury's certainly has a system. It's used to send cash from the tills to the cash office. I've seen it in action and the tubes are clearly visible up in the roof though if you didn't know you probably wouldn't realise what you were looking at.
Was about to say the same thing. My local Asda has one too!
Just to complete some kind of supermarket trifecta - my local Tesco has one, at least in the pharmacy!
Likewise here in Spain and, I imagine, most of the rest of the continent.
This is definitely the café that Wallace and Gromit would run in between jobs 😂
I lived in Christchurch for 15 years and know C1 well. The original cafe was across the street and was destroyed in the earthquake of 2011. The present building was originally a post office built years ago with solid foundations, u can the original post office sign across the top of the building in the opening minute. It was literally the only building on the block left standing.
That is so nifty they created a new tube system from the ground up in a former postoffice. Sad to hear there was so much earthquake damage and loss
I figured the timing of the restaurant opening was not coincidental.
I live in Australia but have family there, I’ve probably driven past that place so many times when I visit hope I can remember for next time I got to Nz
Haha
Not laughijg at the misfortune
The tube from the camera perspective just looks like an incredibly fun waterslide
kefla is my mommy
Patterrz, on a new zealand based video? it's more likely than you think.
There's you million ...uh...billion...dollar idea. Human sized pneumatic tubes. Could build a whole amusement park around that concept.
colonoscopy. you might not be able to unsee it now
As someone who's born and raised in Christchurch, thank you so much for visiting! I've only been to C1 Espresso once and it was so many years ago that I can't remember. Looking forward to more NZ videos.
It was crazy to see Tom visiting a place I’ve been before in my own city.
My old colleague was the one who designed the whole system! He’s a genius. Great to see Tom Scott in Christchurch!
nah
I live in Christchurch and this is actually such a nice place to go to. Their tea range is spectacular as well. Usually when I'm there with friends we'll get normal cafe food and some curly fries so that something gets send through the tubes as well.
Hi Lilly :) fancy meeting you here.
I live here and I've never heard of this place before this video
that clip of the camera running through the pipes is really neat because it reminds me of that one bit from Portal 2. confirms that the sequence in the game was surprisingly accurate.
YES finally SOMEONE said it
back in the eighties I worked in a warehouse inputting customers orders. I then printed them off and sent them through to the warehouse in a pneumatic tube system. it was great, and fun!!
When he said "the hospital also uses tubes" I naturally assumed he was going to say they also send orders there.
In hindsight, it wasn't going to be that, but still, you can dream.
Same thought I had! Honestly think they should install a tube that goes to the hospital and that way they can even get more business.😏
Problem #1: Installing, I dunno, maybe a mile of pneumatic tubes between two buildings is expensive. Maintaining those pneumatic tubes would be even more so.
Problem #2: How often would someone at the hospital near enough to their existing pneumatic infrastructure want to order a tube-shaped burger? It would probably be convenient for lab techs that didn't want to bring lunch, but that's about it.
blood, blood, chips, blood...
If I ever go to New Zealand, I'm going to take my family there JUST because they let you put your GoPro through the tube... That was awesome!
This is cool!! Like you said They are used in hospitals alot still and seeing how they actually work is cool. There are several different stations with blowers and switching stations to transfer from one tube network to another based on its destination, it's like a rail network with sidings and switch yards. Really cool.
I used to work at a bank in the US. On Saturdays the drive thru was open but the lobby was closed.
We were strongly discouraged from leaving during our ten minute breaks because we would (obviously) have to unlock the doors to leave and come back, which was a security issue.
One Saturday I was feeling super hungry, and hadn't brought a lunch. There was a Jimmy John's sandwich shop around the corner, so I called them and asked a question they didn't expect, "Do you think your sandwich will fit through the pneumatic tube at my drive thru?"
Best tasting sandwich ever! And yes, the driver got a good tip 😊
Your bank had a pneumatic tube? :O
@@Ghakimx yes, they're very common in the US.
@@Eyes0penNoFear I've just read about it. Are they still in use now?
@@Ghakimx another american here, I've used them so much I thought they were a normal thing as many banks where I live have them
@@Ghakimx I feel like it’s actually kind of rare to find a neighborhood bank here in the US that doesn’t have these tubes. It’s more common than not. :)
The fact that locals still go there, not for the gimmick, but the food speaks volumes.
Used to work at a decently large Sainsbury's in England, and they have a pneumatic tube system - when cash is counted towards the end of opening hours, it's sent to the cash office through the pneumatic system rather than just being carried from the checkouts (which were at the front of the store) to the cash office (as far away as it was possible to get from the checkouts without going into the warehouse)
Oh I'd forgotten about Sainsbury's! When I was little, I used to see the end points at the till, and when I understood what a pneumatic tube system was, I thought it was really cool. ;)
I too worked in Sainsburys, the pneumatic ‘flight’ system is so loud when it’s running! The store I worked in got ‘robbed’ via this system while I worked there. The thieves sat in the roof and cut a hole in the tube after the blower motor thing, stole the pods, took cash out and then put the empty pod back down the tube to the cash office. What a day that was!
@@unknown547 Wow, I'm honestly kinda impressed by that! Wouldn't have been able to do it where I worked due to the structure of the building, but that's some real creative theft right there! Love the touch of returning the empty flight pods into the system
I'm sure there's a museum with something similar up North. I think it's a pulley till system. You post the receipts and cash and then you pull the lever to send it round the room, or upstairs. Isn't it odd that... we don't walk that much in the past, but created such systems....
I worked in about ten hospitals in California from the 1970's to 2019. Every hospital I worked at had a pneumatic tube system. In the 70's they were manually routed. Each destination had a code. Each tube had a dial to set the code. All tubes arrived at the "Tube Room" and were manually routed by humans. The last hospital (built in 2008) the tubes were automatically routed directly to the destination set on the tube by scan.
Did you work at Brookside, Mitch? That's the last hospital I knew of that had a central desk for routing free dispatch carriers.
Love it. The footage travelling in the tube is a joy ❤
Very cool ! The company I work for still has a pneumatic tube system for transporting transport documents between offices on different floores. The are quite cool :)
And the Go pro ride was awesome
pneumatic tubes my beloved
pneumatic tubes ♥
3:27 Portal games when traveling through tubes.
Even Tom Scott abides by the five second rule. The five second rule rules!
I use to work at a hospital that still uses pneumatic tubes to send biological samples, medications, etc. kinda cool that it’s been in use for so long and is still the most efficient way to move small items from one area to another in just a minute or two.
Supermarkets here have them, like EVERY big supermarket to move cash from the tills to the cash office without carrying money across the shop floor
st george in sydney uses pneumatic tubes to get bloods to pathology! best part about taking bloods. Obviously its for spot FBCs or anything that's been missed, if a patient has to get bloods done every day they'll be covered by the vampire cart (phlebotomist with a metal cupboard on wheels)
@@Simon-ho6ly Where is "here"?
@@robertlozyniak3661 UK but I've seen similar systems all over Europe
Wellington hospital still has its pnuematic system funçtioning.
Will have to come visit Christchurch
There is a tube system in the deli of a supermarket I used to work in here in Ireland. It's used for sending rolls from the deli to the checkouts without customers running off without paying! Could've saved you a trip to New Zealand!
You're messing. Where???
Someone PLEASE enlighten me/us about what supermarket that is, and where it is! 😄 I'll drive there just for the experience!
You don't save someone from taking a trip to NZ... You deny them and excuse ;)
I mean, he was already here for the weird bike... tram thing, and to have an existensial crisis about how his era of technology may be coming to an end
They never go home those boys
They used to have these at my local supermarket when I was a kid and I thought I dreamt it!
I work in a hospital in the USA and wish we could send food trays through this system
The gopro footage was worth the entire video
It was almost a signature of Costco when I was growing up, because as you approached checkout you’d see them descend from the ceiling to the registers.
Always very exciting when an employee used it because they were either sending a lot of cash up or were putting in a order for a very expensive item that you would then pick up on your way out.
I remember when I was young and I thought it was so cool how at the bank they had those tubes :)
Haha same here 😅
When did it stop being cool?
My hometown used to have a small independent department store. It had no checkout counters or tills, just occasional desks here and there with envelopes and one of these tubes by them.
When you made a purchase, a staff member would tally up your bill, and put it and your cash in an envelope and send that along the tube system downstairs to accounting. They would break the change and print a proper receipt, which would come back a few minutes later.
That's amazing! I remember seeing a much lower-tech version of this somewhere... might have been Blists Hill Victorian Village? Or Beamish? I can't actually remember... but it was a similar idea, except with the money and bill going into a wooden ball which went along a sort of marble run arrangement into an accounting office, which served a row of three or four shops. It was very clever, but also rather slow!
my home town had a store like that up until10 years ago it was a sad day when it closed.
"A few hospitals"? ALL major hospitals I have worked at have got em. For sample and med transport as you say, also as a hilarious way to send cookies and such to colleagues.
When I was a kid, one of the supermarkets in my home city had one of these systems to move objects to and from the cashiers, like cheques, damaged goods, or anything small enough in between. Must have been about 20-25 years ago now.
I just thought these were still used everywhere, I work in a supermarket and we use these systems all day everyday.
My local CostCo had tubes going to each register a few years ago, but they removed them in a renovation.
Sainsburys I work at still uses them for moving cash from the tills to the safe
ASDAs in the UK have tubes, in short Tom just doesn't realise the ubiquitousness of them.
@@hardware9462 They were certainly commonplace in large department stores in the UK, though I don't think I've seen one for fifty years. The main advantage was that the counter staff did not have to account for the cash, issue change or write receipts, so it was a way of minimising fiddling. Modern electronic tills, and especially the increase in electronic payments means there are other ways of deterring the light-fingered.
these were still in use at Gatwick airport tower when I started there in 1982, for linking the control tower and radar control at the base of the building - though a much narrower and faster version to the one in the video. Since the vending machine was in the foyer one of its primary roles was sending mars and snickers bars up to the top.
I live near a Walgreens pharmacy that still uses one for the drive thru prescription pickup
Oh Tom, you NEED to check out the new Taco Bell drivethroughs here in the US (Minnesota to be exact). They started a year or two ago with a few of their locations using these same pneumatic tubes to get the food to their drive through customers. You drive up, order with a computer in the drive through, and the food is sent through to you (exactly the same as many banks do here)!
A few videos ago Tom made a video saying if you have any ideas, email me. Should find that & do it.
no need to change the burritos, they're already tube shaped
that seems like an extraordinary waste of time and money thats going to break down a lot. What was wrong with just handing it through the window?
They're not pneu tubes tho. They're little cogged belt driven elevators.
@@MattMajcan It’s a selling point. People have driven hours just to go to one :) Couldn’t tell you why, but as an advertisement it sells 🤷♂️
Getting the view of the GoPro whizzing through these pipes and you being able to see the shop go by below is so satisfying
I've always felt that pneumatic tubes is a brilliant and underused technology
If they could solve the issue of things getting stuck, imagine if that's how our city mail systems worked! A tube to every home. Or drop your trash in tubes and it's sucked off to the rubbish dump. Uber Eats replaced but Tuber Eats.
@@ElDubsNZ There is a city somewhere with pneumatic rubbish system. Though apparently it is somewhat prone to problems with jams and the like. From memory they get a "little person" (dwarf) to go into the tubes when there is a jam and fix them.
We have a super advanced system here in Sweden in a hospital. It also have robots to handle the tubes so the tubes can have different priority, be delayed in a storage and more. Really cool system!
We need a Tom Scott video about it !
I really love all of the new videos filmed in New Zealand. Really good to see you showing oof all of the cool stuff we have here
Yeh like I’ve actually been here
A bank went out of business just 2 minutes away from my house. I saw the pneumatic tubes that you send you check/cash through while you're in a car and thought of an incredible drive-thru restaurant where you pull up, pay, and get your quick food in a can
When I was a kid the bank my parents used closed down and I remember us all guessing what would replace it. Us kids thought a fast food restaurant that used the tubes to deliver the food would be the coolest thing ever! They repurposed the old building into a carwash, though. It's so cool to see that someone delivers food through pneumatic tubes! It's not quite like I imagined at the drive through of the bank, but still cool!
When I was a kid in Minnesota there was a McDonalds in a strip mall that had a drive through out in a kiosk in the middle of the parking ramp. They used a pneumatic tube to deliver the food out to the kiosk.
@@travtotheworld : How come we stopped such things then ? I find it odd that, we go through so many phases globally.... It's interesting.
In the Dutch supermarket i work at, there are pneumatic tubes at the registers, for the cashiers to put money in after a certain amount of certain denominations. It just goes into a slot, and the cylinder it goes into just randomly goes up into the tubes. Then a coworker from the service desk brings a new cylinder and the cycle continues.
This is cool. I want a tube built from my house to several restaurants around my town.😂
Literally what. This is where I get my coffee every day. I'm so upset.
they are a great idea for transporting physical objects. i love the idea and it seems very efficient.
When I'm rich and famous, I want an elaborate system installed in my house.
If we had a system like this for transporting people, that would be good too
@@Pianoguy32 I feel like most people would hate those. You are in a claustrophobic space, it goes this way that way, up down and you don't know whats going on.
@@Pianoguy32you mean hyperlooop? xD
@Pianoguy32 No
Just no
If food gets squished a bit, that's fine
Humans not so
I'd love to have lunch there 👀
I remember these at bigger retailers like Home Depot can't remember the last time I saw these
That GoPro shot through the tubes is nuts!
I've long thought pneumatic tube delivery would be perfect for sending burritos to people's offices. This may have been influenced by living in San Francisco; there are great burritos just a little further away from where people work than makes sense for a lunch break.
Like your idea!
My father was a hospital pharmacist. When I was a child, I shouldn't have been in the hospital pharmacy (every hospital has one, and no one sees it). They had tubes. He and his coworkers were kind enough to teach me how to send short order medications to the various floors. It was fun. Dial it in, close the door, and push the button. Whoosh! and off it went. (And yes, I was watched over closely.)
I’m inclined to make a joke like “that really does suck” but i think i might be sucked into a robuttle if I do.
Okay I’ll leave.
When air was a kid, we had an old department store that had a pneumatic tube system that they used for credit card and check purchases. I always wanted my parents to pay with one of those methods, but they usually paid with cash. The tubes weren't see-through, they were brass. But I thought they were magical.
When air was a kid... I know it's just autocorrect, but I love it. Poetic.
When I was a kid I imagined they would shoot out of the top into a room a storey above and someone would have to catch it.
Tom Scott recreated the bit where Chell in Portal 2 goes through a vac tube
The noises that come from 3:36 are just fantastic.
It doesn't matter what its used for, pneumatic tubes are always a joy to watch, they're like sci fi train sets 🥰😅
Holy bananas. end footage looked like traveling the Stargate. Teal'c would approve.
2:14 if tom said it, that means its true
Even if it isn't
😂
@3:30 It's Dr Who!
Very neat! Exactly the nice blend of teaching history and showing an interesting place I did not know of. The cafe must feel kinda lucky to have you there, you and your teams scripting delivery and editing is always great. Must feel exciting to get some pneumatic footage this time around
You outta check out Fritz’s railroad restaurant in Kansas City. They have a similar system where you order your food on a telephone and they use little model trains and miniature elevators to bring your food to you. I’ve been there a few times when I was a kid and there’s a really fascinating story of how it was made due to a shortage of labor at the time, but has been operating the same way since
I believe there's one like it in Brno, Czechia, too, but I've never been.
(It's somewhere near the main railway station so it's 100% a gimmick there.)
Update: It's called Výtopna and it actually wasn't just in Brno and now it's only in Prague. I'm guessing the gimmick had run out its course in Brno.
I only recently found out it was real, I had always thought it was a vivid dream
I had the pleasure of dining there once while I was staying in the city. It was a really cool version of the "stuff bringing your food to your table" idea!
I was just there last week with the family. We usually make at least one trip to Kansas City every year and it is one stop that we make every time.
OK, going to put New Zealand on the bucket list. That is really awesome! The closest I’ve come, is treating myself to a birthday dinner at a little restaurant that delivers the food on a model train. There are actually quite a few of those.
Here in Germany I know those from the German electronic market Saturn, where they sent all kind of paperwork through those tubes
Everybody knows how Tom has became so efficient with every second of his videos, but my god I really want so more of that café :D
This takes me back to shopping with my mum in a haberdashery store when I was little. It was like magic! Despite me understanding them now, I still get that childish joy whenever I see one still in operation.
I'm honestly surprised that there aren't more still around in big businesses or organisations, particularly hospitals. It's got to free up porters or other staff for hours every week from having to take samples or pick up meds in a hurry (outside of the regular collections/drop offs). A quick automated text message (maybe using QR codes) to the end point saying it's on its way, and then to the source to say that the item has arrived will save there being worries about it getting stuck or lost in the system. They'd know exactly how long each trip should take.
It won't hurt us to think like this café. Obviously not for visitor amusement, but looking back to simpler times and technology might well save a lot of time and money. We shouldn't be so "allergic" to it all.
It's an added cost that they could pay a body to do. Bodies are disposable.
@@Alacritous but bodies cost money. More than a tube system would. And the OP makes a good point about how modern electronic systems could revolutionise these tube systems too. Even just a check to ensure they're locked properly before transit, to remove those 2x a year they spill, would be amazing, even without then factoring in the "time of flight" & location reporting, switching of routes, etc that you could add.
Also can be handy for internal mail of documents, especially with "track and trace" added.
Most do, at least most larger, newer hospitals in developed nations. It does free up porters plenty and boy do we need them.
But a tube system isnt the cheapest investment and requires a threshold volume to make it worthwhile. Hospitals that dont typically dont fulfil either or both of these requirements.
That or the building is old and retrofitting costs too much. But generally, newer hospitals will have this system, futureproofing in a sense because it makes more sense than robots and porters are already in short supply.
@@NigelTolley The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain. -- Scotty, Star Trek III.
POV: you're a sandwich in a pneumatic tube
03:15 Traveling in a tube like in Futurama! Thank you Tom for showing us the future.
We'll see more on them in the year 3000.
Theres a concept tacobell somewhere that oprates by sending your food down to you from tubes above in like an overhead resteraunt drive thru thing
NO WAY I HAVE LIVED IN CHRISTCHURCH MY WHOLE LIFE AND I USED TO GO HERE SO MUCH AND YOU MADE A VIDEO ON IT btw the entrance to the toilets is threw a moving bookcase
Loving the GoPro journey! I'm surprised you didn't mention the use in stores for cash to be sent back from the tills. It wasn't *that* long ago when they were everywhere in the UK. (Supermarkets, larger stores)
Yep, it's much faster and more secure than walking bags of money through the store to/from wherever the cash office is. And saves a manager time needing to make the trip past all those customers who could try to stop them with questions.
They certainly still used them at Sainsbury's when I last worked for them in 2012, so I wouldn't be at all surprised if they still use them now in a lot of supermarkets.
I could watch tube cam all day.
Had one at the co op for the takings (notes) went from the kiosk to the safe,
It’s always good when Tom uploads. Means Monday work time is over and I can go home 🎉. I broke my knee under a pneumatic tube terminal in the local A&E department when I was a nurse there. At least I was in the right place!😂
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10/10 video. premium Tom Scott
That's art, it's cool, and doesn't take away from all the other great things they offer, also props to them for letting you put a goPro through the tubes! 😂
We actually have such system in one of shop networks in my city/country!
It is called "Окей" (OK) and they use pneumatic tubes to send change to the cachiers! It looks so neat and I can imagine how convenient it is!
I was watching this video and then realized that this was in my city and that I used to go there all the time 😂
I used to watch a £10 note disappear in the Tesco tube system back in the 80's...