This is a 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars.

In the shadow of Silicon Valley, San Francisco is home to a futuristic eatery with a virtual

cashier putting change on the menu.

There was a new restaurant that opened a few years back in downtown

San Francisco. It was called Itza. It's a high-tech new restaurant where you order on

iPads and get your Kienwa Bowls out of a cubby. And instead of placing an order on a iPad's and get your kenwa bowls out of a cubby.

And instead of placing an order with a waiter or someone behind the counter,

you punch in your order on a screen.

It's terrific for those of us who are any social.

You don't have to actually talk to a person.

Just swipe your...

Ready you swipe your card.

And then a few minutes later, you would walk to a wall of clear glass cubbies.

I mean, you'll go dark for just a second so you don't see the actual food being placed in the cubby.

And then when the food was placed, the cubby would glow with your name.

You tap the glass twice and you could open the cubby and your food order was in there waiting for you.

You tap it, you get your food and you leave.

The fact that you can just order on the iPad, pick it out of the cubby and go back to your desk,

it means it's really about the most productive way you can get lunch.

You never had to interact with a single person if you didn't want to.

You didn't have the tip, it was fast, you could hop in, grab a custom-made kienwa bowl,

and then go back to work without even pausing your podcast.

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