Have you ever wanted to tell the lady at the bank that you want fries with that money she’s sending you back in the pneumatic tube, yeah me neither. Actually though, I think it would be pretty funny.

Pneumatic delivery has been around for over 130 years. In case you’re not familiar, pneumatic delivery is the tube system that banks use to offer two and three drive thru lanes where only one car is actually at the teller and tubes are used to service the other cars.

Pneumatic delivery dates back to 1874 when Popular Science chronicled a pneumatic delivery system in London used to deliver small parcels form place to place. Around the turn of the century and through 1956 a huge network of tubes was used to connect Brooklyn and Upper and Lower Manhattan across 23 post offices. Prague still uses a pneumatic delivery system, and banks all over the world use the tubes to get correspondence and money back and forth from customers cars, to inside the branch.

Well now a restaurant in New Zealand is planning on using a pneumatic delivery system to deliver small hamburgers (sliders) and a “wee packet of chips” (fried) to customers at their tables. The restaurant, called C1 Cafe,

Sam Crofskey, the owner of the cafe, already has some of the tubing system in place and has already sent a tube full of burgers through the restaurant at 140 kilometers per hour. When all is said and done the cafe will be over to deliver burgers and fries to every table at a reported speed of 87 mph. Crofskey says the system has been in the works since before the restaurant opened.

The cafe has developed a special meal that packages three sliders and a small amount of fries in a stainless steel tube, which the customers can eat out of.

Crofskey got the idea because his cafe is in an old post office that had a pneumatic system. He thought, wouldn’t it be great to continue that system and deliver food.

The company that is building the pneumatic system for C1 Cafe will come to the restaurant once per month and do three tables at a time. Crofskey says the tubing will be easy for the tables that sit along the walls and along support beams. For those tables in the middle of the restaurant they will utilize a system in the basement that will push the tubes and containers up to a patrons table.

You can watch a video of the system in action here at stuff.co.nz