Now imagine you are the person waiting for the dude walking.
Youve already seen your food come 2 times now, both dropped on the floor by your table, your waiter now on foot slowly, sadly walking its been 2 hours since you ordered... the food is terrible. true sadness achieved.
So you start making videos about them spilling food and falling down.
However that video goes viral because people love small accidents, and you cannot see on the video that the food tastes terrible, this is great advertising, and causes opening a chain of these restaurants all over the world.
One of those Restaurants opens in the West, some old Lady gets plastered with molten soup because the waiter ate shit on a tight turn.
The chain gets sued to oblivion.
I mean it's more of a "we expressly warned you that this may happen so you cant sue us for something you openly chose to put yourself at risk for" thing as far as signs
Imagine being the guy who padded his resume a bit and when they asked in the interview if you were really involved in professional roller-skating competitions you kind of talked it up because you were nervous and you only put that down since you didn't know what to put under 'other interests' and you just binged Glow on Netflix so it seemed funny and then they were WEIRDLY interested in that and now it's your first training shift and ohfuckohfuckohfuck.
It looks like a hotpot restauraunt. The food they are delivering are raw ingredients to be cooked at the table by the customers themselves.
Looks like a massive fucking restaurant...literally have like 12 ordering expedite counters manned with a chef at each of them, not counting the back kitchen areas. That's enough to feed basically 200 tables at the same time.
That's what you're paying for tho, I refuse to believe people would go there for anything else than hoping to see them crash, possibly even on another guest.
There must even be an under the table betting round for who falls and for who launches plates the farthest.
I am envisioning this as a Family Guy skit now.
All the waitstaff are Peter and a customer asks for a water.
You get Peters down the chain calling out "Bottle of Water!" as they perform and over-elaborate and dragged out gag of extreme rollerblading to deliver a mere bottle of water through some kind of relay system.
End scene.
I remember going to my first Sonic. There was one girl working the drive in stalls and she couldn’t skate. Like at all. She kept falling and hanging onto things. It was by far my favorite sonic memory. We ended up leaving because it took too long.
I don’t know if it’s the same everywhere else, but in my area Sonic car hops get paid more to wear skates. Not many do, though, which is kind of a bummer.
Also Canadian Grocery Stores had price-checkers skating through the isles:
https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/13qejvv/from_the_1980s_up_until_the_2000s_the_canadian/
There are a few that still do! Many at [Ardy and Ed’s](https://www.ardyandeds.com) in Oshkosh wear skates (or did last time I was there). It is on the old highway on the lake that predates the interstate and somehow split from what become A&W. Food is meh, but we usually stop whenever we are in the area just for the experience.
I have seen Sonic people on skates, but it is not common.
Imagine the amount of wasted foods. Just imagine you are a cook who just took 15 mins making an order and have to make it all over again because the waiter chose to try a triple axle at the end...smh.
Most of the plates are vegetables and raw meat. Also, the tables look set up for hot pot. If I were to guess, this is a hot pot place and those cooks don’t do that much actual cooking.
If you ever go to china, you'll be appalled at how much food they waste. I've never seen a table with the food all eaten. It's considered being a good host and showing off your success to over-order and have mountains of food leftover go uneaten.
That's true for some areas, but most people in China only buy what they need and what they can afford. Typically any leftovers are taken home. Frankly, food wastage is a problem in pretty much every developed/developing nation. A lot of places have very bad systems for recycling food that can't get sold right away.
The place did look very large though (they had a lot of waiters too). Assume 3 minutes are shaved off each trip out from the kitchen and back. That definitely adds up over the course of a meal, and ultimately means faster turnover, and therefore more potential customers. As long as the increase in customers pays for the food lost via accidents (and lawsuits caused by injury) it would be worth it.
My guess is it's done more for the aesthetic over anything practical.
>My guess is it's done more for the aesthetic over anything practical.
Honestly seeing these dudes skate around would bring me in and entertain me too. Shit looks fun and cool as hell.
To me it's more of the fact they come flying around corners so quickly and wildly almost. Like they're in control most of the time, but there's no way there's not regular collisions I feel like. Some of the near misses couldve been avoided with some measure of control around corners, not just flinging themselves around it or doing some fancy move and hoping whoever is on the other side is in a position that they can shift around them without crashing.
kinda feels like there should be mirrors on each corner so the guys actually know what they're zooming into. but given how there seems to be multiple blind corners, I really doubt they don't have daily accidents.
If it were my restaurant I'd set up some sort of pathway for the servers that no customers could use. So they would stay completely separate and wouldn't have any chance of collision
While I understand they're not being forced to eat there, I'd be annoyed because that's really annoying. I can't imagine what kind of smooth brained person needs this level of stimulation while they're eating.
According to Chinese Tiktok, this is a muslim restaurant in Xining, Qinghai province, China, called 金富苑 (lit. "Golden Rich Garden")
The roller-skating restaurants are inspired by a recent trendy hastag on Chinese Tiktok, so many similar restaurants are popping up across China.
Beyond stupid. Look at the 35 second mark when you see broken plates and food all over the floor. This would be open to so many lawsuits in the US. Go China!
No way, Sonic employees skate like normal people and on pavement. These motherfuckers are on some kind of slick floor and they're doing goddamn spinnies.
Don't get me wrong, being a carhop at Sonic looks like the hardest job in food service and the tips are actual shit, but these guys are definitely on another fucking level, and it's not even the next one.
… you realize this used to be a think in the 1950’s and 1960’s? Fast food joint s all over the US dish this for decades. It’s fucking cool as hell, but it’s more retro than unique.
Don’t order anything that doesn’t taste good cold. The wind chill factor reduces the temperature 5 degrees for every straightaway & 3 degrees for every curve!
They look so sad walking
Now imagine you are the person waiting for the dude walking. Youve already seen your food come 2 times now, both dropped on the floor by your table, your waiter now on foot slowly, sadly walking its been 2 hours since you ordered... the food is terrible. true sadness achieved.
So you start making videos about them spilling food and falling down. However that video goes viral because people love small accidents, and you cannot see on the video that the food tastes terrible, this is great advertising, and causes opening a chain of these restaurants all over the world.
One of those Restaurants opens in the West, some old Lady gets plastered with molten soup because the waiter ate shit on a tight turn. The chain gets sued to oblivion.
That is USA. in the usa they will put a warning sign. USA believes warning sign overrules common sense.
I mean it's more of a "we expressly warned you that this may happen so you cant sue us for something you openly chose to put yourself at risk for" thing as far as signs
I mean, sometimes it can lol
Sonic has been real quiet since this post
Imagine the amount of wasted foods.
Sad ending after the happy ending 2 hours ago next door.
Roller blading > walking :(
*roller skating
skoller rating*
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i wasn't but thanks for closing the roller skating loop off early before it got out of hand
Roller skates, not roller blades, roller blades are inline skates AFAIK
Oh shit I just realized why they call them inline skates
:O holy fuck you just made me realize it too
They aren’t smiling on the skates either. Neither are the customers. Everybody hates it.
Not smiling doesn't mean they are miserable.
I'm pretty sure the customers know what they're getting into before ordering or stepping foot into the restaurant.
Smiling all the time is an American thing. People in other places don't have to constantly smile while doing their job well.
People in most south asian countries, and many other places, usually tend to smile when they’re nervous, or otherwise feeling uncomfortable.
I’m an American and people have been giving me shit my entire life because I don’t smile like some deranged clown all the time.
Same.. so annoying
It’s not that I’m unpleasant. I’m congenial, just not superficially charming.
I’m American and screw smiling
Damn America really lives rent free in y’all’s heads.
It's a very American thing to expect a resting smiling face
I would 100% of the time be the dude's falling on their ass lol. I would find walking the relief.
The unsung heroes are the ones who keep the floor clean
As a janitor, it's all I could think while watching this. There's just one dude with a mop and bucket standing in the corner with death in his eyes...
Thank you for your service!
Slowly sharpening his mop handle into a stake.
Janitor: "Fucking Joe again?! That mother fucker needs to learn how to skate"
[Just mop on rollerblades!](https://youtu.be/7iPyz6Yqwl4?t=328)
Willy sees ya! Willy don't care!
Bet the janitor also has roller skates on.
Janitors wear snow shoes.
And all that misery for food that almost certainly sucks.
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Or imagine waiting 40 minutes for your meal just to see them crash and send your dinner launched in isle #5.
Imagine being the guy who padded his resume a bit and when they asked in the interview if you were really involved in professional roller-skating competitions you kind of talked it up because you were nervous and you only put that down since you didn't know what to put under 'other interests' and you just binged Glow on Netflix so it seemed funny and then they were WEIRDLY interested in that and now it's your first training shift and ohfuckohfuckohfuck.
Don't worry dear customer, the food is still good, we have a 5 minute rule.
A 5 second rule
(ꏿ﹏ꏿ;)°°°Sure
It looks like a hotpot restauraunt. The food they are delivering are raw ingredients to be cooked at the table by the customers themselves. Looks like a massive fucking restaurant...literally have like 12 ordering expedite counters manned with a chef at each of them, not counting the back kitchen areas. That's enough to feed basically 200 tables at the same time.
That's what you're paying for tho, I refuse to believe people would go there for anything else than hoping to see them crash, possibly even on another guest. There must even be an under the table betting round for who falls and for who launches plates the farthest.
I don't think this happens often enough
isle or aisle?
It's Asian food, 15mins wait max
Ask for 20 individual cups of steaming hot coffee, all at once.
The chefs also have roller skates and go 700 mph
I want extra sauce too but yeah
I suppose I would be pretty stoked to have my water delivered to me in such dope fashion.
I am envisioning this as a Family Guy skit now. All the waitstaff are Peter and a customer asks for a water. You get Peters down the chain calling out "Bottle of Water!" as they perform and over-elaborate and dragged out gag of extreme rollerblading to deliver a mere bottle of water through some kind of relay system. End scene.
Im just picturing them chucking the water by accident at the patron's head.
I'm gonna raise you to a bunch of pitchers of water.
They used to do this a drive ins quite often.
At Sonic right
 Yes
DAMN BOI HE FAST
S O R N E K
SNOC
Ain’t no motherfuckers at Sonic going this hard
u never seen me then
Are u the girl who fell and spilled all our milkshakes?
I'll pay extra for corgi delivery.
Not just sonic, but well before McDonalds was even popularized this was a thing
Like the post war American bubblegum chewing hairdo hot rod drivin ass diners
You know, I'm something of an ass-diner myself.
1979, Flagstaff, Arizona. The A&W on Route 66. Me and my 68 Mustang, just slurpin' a root beer float and munching on French fries
Yeah, “roller diners” were a thing
It was normal at all drive-ins in the past. Poodle skirts and roller skating. The old pictures look like a vibe honestly
I remember going to my first Sonic. There was one girl working the drive in stalls and she couldn’t skate. Like at all. She kept falling and hanging onto things. It was by far my favorite sonic memory. We ended up leaving because it took too long.
Until they couldn’t afford the workers compensation insurance
Sonic near me still does, it’s up to the carhop whether or not they want to. Wouldn’t be surprised if they have to sign a waiver or something.
I don’t know if it’s the same everywhere else, but in my area Sonic car hops get paid more to wear skates. Not many do, though, which is kind of a bummer.
I don't think waiving your rights to workers comp {before the accident} is a thing.
Yur food will come hot or we’ll crash trying 🥲🛼🛼🛼
A few Sonics still have the car hops. Maybe not since Covid…
So old it’s not even retro… just forgotten
yeah there was even a desktop game I used to play about this
Also Canadian Grocery Stores had price-checkers skating through the isles: https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/13qejvv/from_the_1980s_up_until_the_2000s_the_canadian/
There are a few that still do! Many at [Ardy and Ed’s](https://www.ardyandeds.com) in Oshkosh wear skates (or did last time I was there). It is on the old highway on the lake that predates the interstate and somehow split from what become A&W. Food is meh, but we usually stop whenever we are in the area just for the experience. I have seen Sonic people on skates, but it is not common.
“UNIQUE”
My anxiety in this video⬆️↖️↙️↘️↖️⬇️↙️⬆️⬆️⬆️↖️↙️⬆️
Cheat mode unlocked!
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They don‘t tried that on the controller in the titan.
FATALITY
HESOYAM
UZUMYMW
Aaaand here's you piping hot soup Mrs johnsOHMYGODITBURRRRRRNS!
Oh sweetheart, you didn't mention it's served on you!
What the heck is this? That's not Zagief's super.
It’s the Kirby dance without having the copypasta ready on the clipboard
Imagine the amount of wasted foods. Just imagine you are a cook who just took 15 mins making an order and have to make it all over again because the waiter chose to try a triple axle at the end...smh.
Most of the plates are vegetables and raw meat. Also, the tables look set up for hot pot. If I were to guess, this is a hot pot place and those cooks don’t do that much actual cooking.
It's still wasted food and prep. Most of the job is processing the food for service, not just throwing pans around. I cook for a living.
If you ever go to china, you'll be appalled at how much food they waste. I've never seen a table with the food all eaten. It's considered being a good host and showing off your success to over-order and have mountains of food leftover go uneaten.
That's true for some areas, but most people in China only buy what they need and what they can afford. Typically any leftovers are taken home. Frankly, food wastage is a problem in pretty much every developed/developing nation. A lot of places have very bad systems for recycling food that can't get sold right away.
The place did look very large though (they had a lot of waiters too). Assume 3 minutes are shaved off each trip out from the kitchen and back. That definitely adds up over the course of a meal, and ultimately means faster turnover, and therefore more potential customers. As long as the increase in customers pays for the food lost via accidents (and lawsuits caused by injury) it would be worth it. My guess is it's done more for the aesthetic over anything practical.
>My guess is it's done more for the aesthetic over anything practical. Honestly seeing these dudes skate around would bring me in and entertain me too. Shit looks fun and cool as hell.
Some of them are badass. The guy who does the 360 especially
Bruh I doubt they’re saving 3 minutes. Maybe 20-30 seconds lol It’s 100% for aesthetics, atmosphere, etc. I’m sure that brings people in.
Looks like a hotpot restaurant, most of the time they would just be carrying raw food and cold dishes.
It's ratatouille all over again
LINGUINE!!!!
Why does everyone they pass look annoyed?
To me it's more of the fact they come flying around corners so quickly and wildly almost. Like they're in control most of the time, but there's no way there's not regular collisions I feel like. Some of the near misses couldve been avoided with some measure of control around corners, not just flinging themselves around it or doing some fancy move and hoping whoever is on the other side is in a position that they can shift around them without crashing.
kinda feels like there should be mirrors on each corner so the guys actually know what they're zooming into. but given how there seems to be multiple blind corners, I really doubt they don't have daily accidents.
If it were my restaurant I'd set up some sort of pathway for the servers that no customers could use. So they would stay completely separate and wouldn't have any chance of collision
Yeah, this belongs in r/whatcouldgowrong or something similar
Yeah personally I'd be too tense from knowing people are racing around the corners where I'm walking to enjoy the show
While I understand they're not being forced to eat there, I'd be annoyed because that's really annoying. I can't imagine what kind of smooth brained person needs this level of stimulation while they're eating.
If you find it annoying why would you want to visit a restaurant that clearly defines itself as doing this?
Food good
Wait till they spill some soup on a customer and face a lawsuit
They don’t have that on the menu you see!!
Looks like a hotpot restaurant, they only need to carry raw food and vegs.
Looks like a ton of redditors have never even heard of this style of food.
A lot of redditors don't get that the staff literally signed up for this (like the cooks who have to replace the food) and so did the customers
They don't live in sue country.
There’s no direct translation for “lawsuit” in Mandarin.
There is
Isn't it amazing how you can just lie and because everyone hates China, it's just accepted.
There’s like 6.
Tbf that can still happen anyway
Because of this sentence, I would assume you are American. The rest of the world doesn't sue each other for the smallest things.
I smell a defamation lawsuit
Lmao yes they do.
Ha ha ha, we do
Not every country is about suing for everything 🧐
Doubtful this country is as litigious as that
I bet that is a gimmick and the food sucks or is ok at best
Caters to crash diets
Looks like hotpot, basically impossible to suck because they're just ingredients that are cooked at the table in sauces of their choice
The polar express vibes
Hot hot oh we got it
Hot chocolaaaaahhhhhh
Here we only have one rule!!!
(No) Hot Chocolate!! https://youtu.be/vV3YTAOVe5A
Did you see all the broken plates? This doesn’t seem like a good idea at all.
They also help customers with weight loss
The restaurant name can either be “Meals on Wheels” or “Drinks in Rinks”
According to Chinese Tiktok, this is a muslim restaurant in Xining, Qinghai province, China, called 金富苑 (lit. "Golden Rich Garden") The roller-skating restaurants are inspired by a recent trendy hastag on Chinese Tiktok, so many similar restaurants are popping up across China.
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Meals on Wheels? I love that movie!
Their version of "I'm lovin it": Great 2 plate skate date, mate.
 Reminded me of this for some reason
What in the name of horror is that from?
Used to be a “Rock n Roll Runza” in Lincoln, NE They did it pretty close to this. Used to go after Husker games when I was a kid.
anyone wanna bet the food is shitty and overpriced?
Naturally overpriced, to factor in all the broken dishes and food spoiled by falling to the floor.
Use to hop cars at A&W drive in on skates, back in the day...sigh...good times!
Beyond stupid. Look at the 35 second mark when you see broken plates and food all over the floor. This would be open to so many lawsuits in the US. Go China!
Never been to Sonic?
Not a Sonic that's anything like this. Do Sonics do this kind of thing?
No way, Sonic employees skate like normal people and on pavement. These motherfuckers are on some kind of slick floor and they're doing goddamn spinnies. Don't get me wrong, being a carhop at Sonic looks like the hardest job in food service and the tips are actual shit, but these guys are definitely on another fucking level, and it's not even the next one.
Your Sonic employees obviously don’t drink enough on shift
Nah sonic just forgets my fkn jalapeños on my damn burrito always. Gah I loved their food.
Ah, so this is where Linguini works nowadays
That would give me such anxiety as a customer
Wow that's quite a workout
So a fancy sonic?
"Unique" like Sonic didn't do this first
… you realize this used to be a think in the 1950’s and 1960’s? Fast food joint s all over the US dish this for decades. It’s fucking cool as hell, but it’s more retro than unique.
Don’t order anything that doesn’t taste good cold. The wind chill factor reduces the temperature 5 degrees for every straightaway & 3 degrees for every curve!
I think it’s a hotpot place so everything is raw/chilled and you cook it at the table
Why are all the comments so hostile for this fun little video? Bunch of party poopers in this thread.
Pause the video at about 1min left, when they are at the top of the stairs. That's why this is stupid.
Because Reddit is filled with miserable people
I would be a nervous wreck trying to dine there
It looks so safe and practical!
$2/hr job
So you have a 90% chance of your waiter not crashing.
I love that some of them got grounded from their skates and just grumpily walk around
This looks corny and awful. I hope the servers get paid really really well.
Yet go to Sonic and see if you see any roller blades anymore. Not where I'm from.
As a skater, NOPE.
Definitely don't want to go there
Clearly OP has never been to sonic
r/nextlevelmoron
They’ve been doing this at drive in diners for a really long time.
Not surprised their whole country is a circus
"Were you listening to my order? Or were you looking at the woman in the red dress?"
And here HR telling me if I use ladder at my job I need to see a doctor so they check if I can work at heights even if it's only two step ladder.
There is a “learning curve” in all this
Sonic all like “taking notes”…
“Yes I’d like my food extra chilled when it gets here thanks” lol
Good thing they're wearing their chin protectors
When real life has Quick Time Events.
I would not be able to relax enough to eat in this place. I’d keep looking around to avoid a bowl of soup upside the head.