Quick, catch your dinner!

This item appears on page 104 of the April 2008 issue.

At the restaurant ’s Bagger’s in Nuremburg, Germany, the food is sent to you directly from the kitchen without waiters. It comes stashed in large pots which slide down 15-foot steel spiral ramps, slowing to a stop at your table.

You order and pay on a touch screen at your table. Entrées, salads, desserts and drinks are sold à la carte and cost €3-€8 (near $4.50-$12). Busboys clean up, but no waiters hover and recite the “daily special.”

Open 11:30 a.m.-11 p.m. Sunday-Thursday and 11:30-12 Friday-Saturday. ’s Baggers (Am Steinacher Kreuz 28, D90427 Nuremberg, Germany; phone +49 0 911/477 90 90, www.sbaggers.de).