Entertainment, games, adventure and interactivity all inside a restaurant is the latest food and beverage venue in Vienna. The seventh location worldwide, ROLLERCOASTERRESTAURANT Vienna opened in April in Prater, the large public park.
“We have been planning, developing and installing in Vienna and we managed to create a totally new dimension of the ROLLERCOASTERRESTAURANT concept, implementing several new highlights,” says Michael Mack, CEO of HeineMack GmbH and inventor of ROLLERCOASTERRESTAURANT. “With the overall concept of the restaurant we definitely invented a Gastronomy 4.0, including several further worldwide innovations.”
At the restaurant, orders are taken via a tablet PC and robots dispatch food, drinks and even make cocktails. Dishes are then sent to the tables by a transport device that wraps through the restaurant like a roller coaster made up of a LED-lit track system. In addition, the tables are connected to catapult impulses that have buzzers installed at each seat. As soon as the robots have equipped one of the catapults with a transport device a visible countdown initiates at the table. Guests are able to make this into a game and the person who buzzes the fastest will trigger the catapult and receives a small gift at the end of their visit. Another unique feature is that all beverages served—non-alcoholic, beer and cocktails—are under its own “One more” brand.
Games and entertainment are intertwined into the meal by light shows, dance performances by the robots and interactive games like its “One more beer” and ROLLERCOASTERROULETTE programs. With “One more beer,” there are show acts at irregular times and diners have the chance to purchase beer at a discounted rate if they order “within the next 60 seconds” after the show act via their tablet. ROLLERCOASTERROULETTE is played at the table and participants chose a category of beverage and select the drink they want to play for and the game begins. Seat numbers at the table and/or each individual tablet of every participant flashes randomly, and the one that flashes continuously will be charged for the cost of all the selected drinks played for at the table.