One of the thing I really liked about living in Japan is the way of using a very convenient method to save energy and time for busy people who have to work hard on a tighted busy day in their daily life. Japan has been a very convenient country where you can do stuff easily at almost every time that you need to here like paying, buying, ordering and etc where you don’t have to go or ask all the way out from your current place while most of these things will be done for you as quick as possible on time.
From what I have experienced here that most of the restuarant here are very convenient which you could find just buy a food or drink ticket without asking the waiter/waitress for order instead buying at through the vending machine provided in front of the entrance door. All you need to do is the buy what you want to through seeing a picture and decided by insert the money into it and press the button until the ticket is printed up and drop down it then give it to the person who is going to serve you through the table.
It was quite easy for a busy time where people also can choose to take out through the vending machine too which require less time and work by requesting alot. You can almost find these type of restuarant in most of the places around where salarymen used to go to during their lunch hour.
I have never seen this before I came to Japan which I found it quite interesting to know that this type of ticket vending machine is very easy to use especially people who don’t know how to order in Japanese because when I first came to Japan, my Japanese ability is nearly on zero and it was quite hard for me to order through the waitress until one of my comrade introduce a restuarant that only uses food ticket to take order from the vending machine. Was quite into it back then until now I seldom went to the restuarant that uses this unless I’m on a hurry. ^^;;