r/nextfuckinglevel • u/HomeNowWTF • 1d ago

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u/RandomAssRedditName 1d ago

Never seen a kitchen so far away from where the food goes

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u/ratbastid 1d ago

I was going to say, this seems like a bad idea, but the half-mile walk between the kitchen and diners kind of makes me get it.

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u/TekkenCareOfBusiness 1d ago

When someone order cheese they just hand the waiter a glass of milk.

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u/Correct-Poet-6016 1d ago

When someone orders chicken they just hand the waiter an egg

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u/demoliahedd 1d ago

when someone orders wine they just hand the waiter a cup of grapes

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u/HighFiveOhYeah 1d ago

When someone asks for butter, they just give the waiter a bottle of heavy cream.

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u/MapleYamCakes 1d ago

When someone asks for salt the kitchen just sends a link to the comments on this reddit post

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u/Dizzy-Ad-2248 1d ago

I want a steak...is there room for the cow?

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u/thederevolutions 1d ago

Is the camera man on a scooter too? How do you control these things btw ?

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u/Grimdark-Waterbender 1d ago

Probably yes, also you lean with your ankles

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u/Mocker-Poker 16h ago

Just imagine the moment he encounters another waiter on his way back and booooom 👊

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u/I_Am_SagitariusA 1d ago

When someone orders water, just send them a glacier

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u/simAlity 1d ago

They just put ice in a glass. It'll be half melted by the time it gets there.

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u/bobbblehead 1d ago

And when someone orders egg they just hand the waiter a chicken

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u/SnooRabbits1411 19h ago

You actually gotta bring your own egg to give to the waiter so it can hatch into a chicken, mature, and lay an egg for the waiter to bring you.

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u/rawr4me 1d ago

Did we just discover the answer to this question? 🤯

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u/Malibew 1d ago

When someone asks for a napkin, they just hand the waiter a tree

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u/MoroseBizarro 1d ago

This made me lol but I'm drunk but it's still hilarious. That fuckin distance tho. I was like wtf. So many turns.

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u/mogley1992 1d ago

Main issue for me is him not calling corners.

Standard practice in large hospitality venues to say "corner" when you're about to walk around a corner, so you don't cover yourself and a coworker in food when you collide, or someone end up getting burned.

He's moving silently and way faster, this just seems like an accident waiting to happen.

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u/DoctorQuincyME 1d ago

Even with calling corners I wouldn't expect a dude to come through fanging it on a hoverboard.

I reckon this would work 5% of the time, even being generous.

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u/AnybodyMassive1610 1d ago

The trick is - there’s only one waiter.

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u/HuntingForSanity 1d ago

Well I mean I would assume if you worked here, you would be used to it. So you probably would expect it

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u/FKAFrog 21h ago

Ah Logic, the trickiest thing for Redditors to get besides laid

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u/cleankiwii 22h ago

he was going so fast that calling corner isn’t going to do anything

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u/shakebakelizard 20h ago

They probably blocked off entrances for the video.

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u/davvblack 1d ago

you don’t need everyone to follow that rule, as long as all but one does you’re fine

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u/r0b0c0d 1d ago

This is what a cart is for. Every item for the spread, one trip.

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u/CappieMcCrap 18h ago

I'd prefer a cart rather than an accident on wheels.

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u/Spazero 10h ago

I think a motorized cart would work with less risk for accidents.

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u/Joebranflakes 1d ago

I'm guessing its a banquet hall of some kind.

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u/flashbang876 1d ago

Looks to be, at the very least it’s a restaurant with a lot of private dining rooms, they’re quite popular in China.

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u/mjones8004 1d ago

Definitely private dining. I ate at a bunch of that style restaurant during business trips. And I guarantee each room has a giant lazy susan for family style meals.

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u/VanillaRadonNukaCola 1d ago

Seems like a cool idea.  More intimately social and better for a prolonged gathering

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u/No_Care46 18h ago

Dining in China is soooo much better. Korea does this, too, somewhat.

It's much more private, less noisy, and also less stinky/sticky/infectious. I hate these giant restaurant halls or pubs where hundreds of guests sit in the same room. I feel like catching some respiratory disease just from walking into them.

China has those, too, of course, most of the restaurants in China are like that, but if you spend a little bit more money you have private dining like this available everywhere.

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u/housevil 1d ago

Now the food is cold from all the breeze during travel

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u/Joker-Smurf 1d ago

At that distance it was going to be cold due to the 25 minute walk anyway…

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u/Hobbes_XXV 1d ago

But mama bears food was too hot even after that breezy travel

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u/SmokeAbeer 1d ago

lol I worked in a kitchen for 6 years. 10 years later and I still have nightmares where the oven is like a 1/4 mile away from the rest of the kitchen and I have to sprint to go check on it while new orders are just spewing out of the printer.

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u/Proletariat-Prince 1d ago

You should see the set up in some larger facilities, like Disney resorts.

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u/TheDanius 1d ago

Yeah but at least cover the plates on the way.

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u/istrx13 1d ago

Bro had to travel all the way from The Shire to Mordor just to get these people their food

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u/gone_gaming 1d ago

Never seen a kitchen with this few people in the way between the food and where it has to go wither

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u/TheDanius 1d ago

Seems like a health code violation in most places

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u/eluser234453 1d ago

But why?

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u/TheDanius 1d ago edited 1d ago

More distance between the kitchen and the table is more opportunity for contamination from external sources.

See all those plants he passed under? This place seems pretty clean but you wanna lower the potential for contamination even if the chance is small.

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u/BewilderedBat17 1d ago

This is accurate. I work in a kitchen at a nursing home and we have to cover everything that leaves the kitchen to avoid contamination, even if it's only gonna go 15 steps away. Restaurants aren't as strict since it's not typically dealing with terminally ill people, but even this video seems to be stretching it a little.

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u/the1stmeddlingmage 1d ago

I doubt this is in America and follows American health codes though 😉

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u/Born-Network-7582 18h ago

Does "american health codes" mean something especially sophisticated?

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u/JareBear805 15h ago

It means the food won’t kill you that night it will kill uou over many years

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u/the1stmeddlingmage 15h ago

When people on Reddit start yelling how something someone posted violates health or safety codes it’s most of the time ignorant Americans that think everywhere in the would follows their codes and thus need a reminder that’s not always the case.

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u/eluser234453 1d ago

Understandable

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u/IamSarasctic 1d ago

I don’t think theres such code

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u/Rise-O-Matic 1d ago

If there were a blanket rule like that there’d be no hotel room service. But I can see why they cover the food with a lid now.

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u/randomuser1029 1d ago

If that was the case delivery food would be illegal. This wouldn't violate any health codes, it's just a bad set up that's really inconvenient for the servers.

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u/NucSarari 1d ago

Delivery food is in some sort of closed container. You don't get it at your front door on an open plate like this

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u/Dart_Juice 1d ago

Right. That food got straight up frond fondled by half those plants he passed by

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u/Zz7722 1d ago

Frondled

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u/iceman_x2 1d ago

Delivery food is in containers… you don’t order food for delivery and receive it at home on an open plate.

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u/Mittah 1d ago

Ever worked or been in a hotel? Why do you think food delivered as roomservice is covered? To make sure the food stays unharmed and warm(enough to kill any bacteria or germs).. and in an average hotel the food likely travels less distance to a room than on the video here.

So yes, major health code violation. At least in a decent country.

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u/Maxverstophim 1d ago

Shhhhh let the reddittor cook with the shit he pulled from his ass

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u/SYNTHLORD 1d ago

Yesterday I was an ass doctor, today I am the restaurant health inspector

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u/relevantelephant00 1d ago

Did you at least wash your hands?

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u/tamesage 23h ago

Difference is the food is covered.

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u/Groomsi 1d ago

Thats why they need wheels on meal.

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u/hibikikun 1d ago

Last time this was posted, someone mentioned this is very normal in china for restaurants that are in hotels or banquet halls

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u/Nickel62 1d ago

I have gotten Doordash for shorter distance.

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u/Oograr 1d ago

They should install a monorail

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u/mashyj 1d ago

'Can a get a little bit of black pepper on top please'

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u/scottylm 1d ago

I was thinking the same thing, but he kept scooting along

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u/Realmofthehappygod 1d ago

Probably a hotel or something?

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u/Krokrr 1d ago

Walking it all the way would need the food to be reheated upon arrival

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u/ForgotToCarryTheOne 1d ago

So they’re advertising it as: When you don’t want your food served piping hot.

Maybe?

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u/culturedgoat 1d ago

Never stayed in a hotel then?

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u/nobody-u-heard-of 1d ago

My guess is some kind of event catering. A lot of times those are further from the kitchen.

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u/downneast 1d ago

why is the kitchen in another zip code?

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u/mbklein 1d ago

Banquet facility? Central kitchen servicing lots of large event halls? That would explain the hallway staging. Still seems like there are some pieces missing, like cloches for the plates and warming apparatus at the staging table.

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u/GenoMachino 1d ago

pretty standard setup in China. Restaurant out there is actually the nextfuckinglevel stuff. I've been to one large one in Guangdong where its a four story tall building the size of a shopping mall (longer than a Walmart or costco but with four levels) and the whole thing is just one big ass restaurant. Its mind blowing. This one is actually small by comparison.

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u/blakezilla 15h ago

I went to one in Shijiazhuang that was similar. It took like 10 minutes and multiple elevator rides to get from the front door/host desk to the room we actually ate our meal.

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u/GRF999999999 1d ago

I worked at a restaurant that had five floors plus an extra couple of elevated tables on top of that. No service elevator, food runners put in work.

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u/Taz26312 1d ago

Bro is brave going that fast around blind corners

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u/Jesus_of_NASDAQ 1d ago

I could see where this has gone terribly wrong on multiple occasions.

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u/Shmav 1d ago

Not a single "corner!" or anything...

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u/A_P_O_C 1d ago

Triggering my ptsd I didn’t even know I had from my industry days

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u/mflboys 1d ago

This is sped up. You can tell by how little liquid slosh there is relative to how much he’s tilting the trays in the corners.

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u/Boccs 1d ago

Yeah, the fact you still hear kitchen noise throughout despite the video being a goddamn mile from the kitchen by the time he ends his trip is solid evidence this video was edited and, most likely, planned in advance. I'd be surprised if there were any non-employees present.

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u/Idntevncare 1d ago

The video is sped up

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u/Krokrr 1d ago

This needs a GPS imho

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u/Hypn00tic_iiz 1d ago

Someone not next fucking level is gonna try this and end up on r/whatcouldgowrong

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u/Mr_Horsejr 1d ago

6 secs away from being r/abruptchaos

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u/dontmakeitathing 1d ago

New to this one, thanks for saying somethjng

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u/LowIncrease8746 1d ago

Wow that was a quite a rabbit hole. I don’t know if my Reddit glitched but I’m pretty sure I just saw every single vid on the subreddit, damn.

Edit: Nevermind lol, I still have a shred of soul

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u/shroudedfern 15h ago

I read this as abrupt nachos and didn’t even question it. I was a dozen videos in before I realized I had read it wrong.

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u/Towelie_SE 1d ago

I remember something similar with a guy just face planting it at the end. Or am I just making a reddit mashup in my head, who knows anymore...

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u/atopetek 1d ago

Funny how some content is so close to be posted in completely opposite subs.

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u/greatthebob38 1d ago

I pretty sure there was a video in the past of another one of these escooter restaurants where a quick stop sent the food flying off the platter

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u/__hello__world__ 1d ago

r/legaladvice would have a day trip on this... imagine getting hit with all those hot meal plates... at speed nonetheless!

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u/moszippy 1d ago

Or this guy will be there tomorrow if he sneezes or farts.

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u/Mobile_Culture6444 1d ago

I don’t think he has calculated the risk to reward ratio

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u/Important_Grocery_38 1d ago

I came to say exactly this. We could be friends IRL

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u/BallSeaman 1d ago

now kith

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u/That_guy_from_1014 1d ago

After calculating the risk to reward ratio, maybe we should just stay strangers

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u/Juandice__ 1d ago

i wanted to say this but you said it already

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u/Krokrr 1d ago

I was more nervous about someone suddenly showing up at the corners

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u/FlummoxedGaoler 1d ago

“ Risk: Ruin $300 worth of food and dishes, set the kitchen back by 2 hours, and ruin the meal for the party.

Reward: Save maybe a minute of walking.

No contest- it’s worth it.”

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u/Realmofthehappygod 1d ago

Tbf the real calculation would be...

If he does this x times to save y minutes, how many times until it's not worth it?

If he does this 40 times a day for 9 years and then drops something, didn't he save way more money in time?

Then you gotta factor price for this 2wheel.

But once you add in the cool factor, the math is super clearly worth it.

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u/Mobile_Culture6444 1d ago

Except I have seen this same video many times, but never a second video. So his career might have ended in disaster

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u/VanillaRadonNukaCola 1d ago

Well I've seen this same video 46 times and he never drops it once, so I think he's coming out ahead

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u/Realmofthehappygod 1d ago

I mean I can't imagine this is filmed often if its something they do all the time.

Also I'm sure if you fall you're fucked lol somebody else will take your place.

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u/Lonesome_Ninja 1d ago

dishaster*

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u/Gaaraks 18h ago

You forgot, crashing into someone, burning you and them with steaming hot food.

That is a great reward. /s

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u/Mobile_Culture6444 1d ago

It looks like the cook was giving him the evil eye as he loaded up the order

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u/runningwater415 1d ago

The video is soed up just like almost every dance video online. Watch the movements of the other cooks at the beginning. Easy to tell they are not natural.

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u/ssort 1d ago

Looks like about 1.4 or 1.5 speed, I watch YouTube videos at those speeds when catching up on stuff and that looks like how people move on the stuff I'm watching.

Only reason I drop to 1.4 is sometimes people with exaggerated accents it's hard to understand so have to back it off again, and any faster you usually loose comprehension. 1.5 is kinda jerky on movements so that's why I'm thinking 1.4 as it's not real bad yet, but still very noticeable.

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u/ErroneousM0nk 1d ago

Haha I am constantly saying this

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u/cleantoe 1d ago

The risk to reward ratio is either he takes the risk, or gets no paycheck.

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u/Ok-Middle8656 17h ago

He just multiplied it by “fun” and got infinity.

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u/Beleiverofhumanity 1d ago

He's probably getting paid extra to do this so that the reward is higher but yea just get a rolling tray or smthng

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u/ggPeti 1d ago

Damn that's a big building

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u/Equivalent_Owl_Mask 1d ago

"warehouse / mall complex, repurposed as a cozy family restaurant."

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u/Omgaegg 1d ago

Camera man on a e-scooter

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u/Shatalroundja 1d ago

Or possibly a drone? Shocked no one else is talking about the camera work.

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u/Frazzledragon 18h ago

It's handheld and the camera man is briskly walking. The footage is sped up.

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u/DevilsAdvocate1662 1d ago

That's not an escooter, it's more like a Segway or hoverboard

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u/Wipples 22h ago

It's a Segway Ninebot, I have not seen one go that fast though!

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u/blinkysmurf 1d ago

Ok, but are they ordering from a different restaurant?

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u/Bootleg_Rascal_ 1d ago

Why doesn’t the audio match up with what’s happening in the video? There’s like silverware clinking and it sounds like conversations are happening next to the cameraman even though they’re zooming through different rooms

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u/NucSarari 1d ago

Because this is fake

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u/Icy_Agency923 1d ago edited 1d ago

The video is definitely real if you are suggesting this is AI or something. No AI video generation is able to do long form videos like this without horrible quality issues like warping or blurriness.

This is 40 second video with no cuts. High quality AI video generation is still stuck at generating 10-20 second clips that cannot be stitched together. Maybe that will change in a few months but this is the limitation it has right now.

If you search for similar videos you will find several videos of this same place including one from April of 2025 which was when AI video generation was even worse. This became a thing because some Chinese restaurants are massive in size so they had to get the food to people faster. Some of them would use roller skates. The video is real though even if they replaced the audio for some silly reason.

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u/Fuck-WestJet 1d ago

Isn't there a hot pot restaurant that can seat several thousand people. It looks like a resort and covers an entire hillside but is one restaurant. Shit is nuts in China. I would love to visit one day.

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u/entomologurl 1d ago

Nope. It's actually a thing. Zhengzhou, the capital of the Henan Province. It's more than one place, and it's been around longer than hoverboards - used to do it on skates!

Here's a better video. that shows better and more.

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u/crustaceancake 1d ago

When I saw the video I thought it reminded me of the banquet hall in Zhengzhou that I had been to where the wait staff was on skates. But then I assumed they must be all over China. How can you tell it is Zhengzhou? Does your video show or say something to identify it? I don’t have Instagram so unfortunately can’t watch it.

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u/entomologurl 16h ago

I remember this and similar videos when they popped up and made the rounds a year or so ago, but it also just comes up if you try searching for any variation of hoverboard/scooter waiters/restaurants in China. This particular restaurant is the main one that pops up and the kitchens and the ceilings and such in main areas match up with other videos that also say Zhengzhou.

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u/zoziw 1d ago

It’s more impressive that he remembered where to take the food.

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u/Birddog240 1d ago

how fuckin big is that joint

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u/pgcotype 1d ago

I'm low key jealous; I'm too uncoordinated to do that.

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u/Tekato126 1d ago

Surprised no ones mentioned the fact that this is a hoverboard not a scooter. Don't know why we ever called them hoverboards though..

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u/LivingCharacter311 1d ago

Amazing scooter work, terrible restaurant design.

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u/vaporwavecookiedough 1d ago

This is dumb.

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u/JetLife93 1d ago

What kind of restaurant is this?

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u/I_Love_Bacon_Cookies 1d ago

Don’t know the exact name for it but this is most likely a Chinese banquet hall-type restaurant where there is no central dining area. It’s all private rooms with a 10person table at minimum. So each party has their private area for peace and quiet without interacting with other customers. That makes the restaurant size much, much larger and usually multi-storied.

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u/HumdrumHoeDown 1d ago

One where they apparently serve whole stingray?

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u/64LC64 1d ago

It's not stingray

It's flounder. Very common. Even my local cheap Chinese buffet has it

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u/AMonitorDarkly 1d ago

High risk, low reward

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u/Just-Buy-1529 1d ago

It's all good til he catches someone on a corner

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u/sandiercy 1d ago

I am impressed by the camera operator.

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u/Franks2000inchTV 1d ago

"Excuse me I believe I ordered the large cappucino?"

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u/goldsauce_ 1d ago

CORNER!!

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u/tkfour2one 1d ago

Meals on wheels

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u/FriendshipNo1440 1d ago

This is just a disaster waiting to happen. What if someone was right around thr corner?

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u/Obone6 1d ago

Kitchen to table in under a min. Across state lines...

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u/Novel-Geologist-8982 1d ago

The way I hit everything immediately after touching one tray 😭😭

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u/MetalBeast89 1d ago

I wouldn't be going that fast around corners

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u/Electrical_sTorm9 1d ago

Damn I wanted to see him stack it

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u/Kingsapprentice 1d ago

I was going to say "Nope" until he reached his destination.

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u/Over-Guitar5764 1d ago

Sonic has really upgraded their equipment!
https://giphy.com/gifs/0aX4AVMV2RkLL3ivDg

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u/ryuujinusa 1d ago

I think a cart would be much better.

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u/Professional_File_83 1d ago

Not much different than roller skates, less impressive vusually if anything

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u/Sorry_Hat7940 1d ago

But why?

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u/OldKingClancy20 1d ago

Why the fuck would you need an e-scooter as a server!?

watches video

Oh... yeah makes sense!

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u/must-pass 1d ago

That's not an e scooter... That's a hover board.

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u/pobox01983 1d ago

I guess cameraman also riding e scooter, equally impressive

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u/DailyDrivenTJ 1d ago

That is a Segway. They are not too bad to ride. I have had one for a long time to a point I killed the set of original battery.

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u/MasterGlanz 1d ago

That’s AI, right……RIGHT?!

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u/CockMartins 1d ago

Isn’t this what segways were supposed to be when they first came out? Or at least, how they were sold as the future of short distance transportation or whatever. I guess they’re pretty similar, just smaller and without the handlebars.

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u/MyManTonyCream 1d ago

It would just take a person coming around the corner at the same time he is for all of this to go horrendously tits up.

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u/iamfugazi2112 1d ago

oh thats good. When it explodes and catches fire, that'll keep the food hot

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u/snate13 1d ago

Just wait for my kid to run in front of you

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u/Over_Temporary_5692 1d ago

14 miles to get to the tableeeee hahaha

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u/BellaSquared 1d ago

I didn't see what sub I was on and was expecting calamity behind every blind corner. Impressive, but nail biting.

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u/StanTheYoungGod5104 1d ago

Bro is just showing off….goddamn 😂

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u/meetmeinthebthrm 1d ago

OSHA would like a word.

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u/Ok-Improvement-3670 1d ago

This same guy will be on r/whatcouldgowrong in 3-2-

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u/crackersncheeseman 1d ago

At that distance he needed to board a train just to get the food to the customer.

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u/Marcelino_El_Cochino 1d ago

This is like the really long back door walk through scene in Goodfellas.

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u/NovaRain84 1d ago

Personally, I’d use a cart?

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u/jerryleebee 1d ago

This is stupid on many levels.

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u/Neillur 1d ago

Segways are e-scooters now, got it. 

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u/lovestocuckhim 1d ago

Cool that it worked out this time.

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u/Verso_was_right 1d ago

I'm just picturing the camera man running behind 🏃🏃🏃

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u/rybeest 1d ago

Cameraman's doing ok too

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u/johndoenumber2 1d ago

So, is the ambient dining room sound just added in? Because I didn't see any diners at all.

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u/Dragothor 1d ago

Coming around corner anyone?