When my husband called this AM to ask how I’d feel about his takinfg a 4 montyh assignment in Nuremberg, I gleefully said awesome.  Then I remembered a new restaurant I'd seen a report on called Gone are the days of slow service and surly waiters at an automated restaurant in Germany. World's First Automated Restaurant Opens In Germany A new restaurant in Nuremberg may be the first sit-down restaurant in the world that doesn't have waiters. They've been replaced with a fully automated ordering and table service system. The latest revolution in the restaurant business isn't taking place in Paris or London or even Berlin for that matter. It's happening in an odd location — a non-descript industrial building on the outskirts of Nuremberg in Bavaria. Michael Mack, who got his start operating a profitable iron foundry in the city, has reinvented the way guests are served food and drinks and infused the culinary world with a bit of the Jetsons. for full report