Foot Ticket and Vending Machine --- 食券販売

Foot Ticket and...

Many small chain of Japanese restaurants, you select what you want to eat and pay at the vending machine. The machine give you a ticket and you take it to the counter. That is how you order.

Have you ever seen the system like this anywhere?

By doing this, the shop employee would never handle cash and there is no crime to hold up the restaurant either.