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Yahoo
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Robot server lending a helping hand at new pizzeria in Tuscaloosa County
BROOKWOOD, Ala. (WIAT) – In the town of Brookwood, you'll find Fat Boy's Pizzeria. It's a new pizza place that opened in April, and as of this week, it's using a robot to help deliver food and drinks to the tables. Where did the idea for a robotic server come from? Fat Boy's Pizzeria owners say they saw it in action at a food show in Biloxi, Mississippi, and they decided to give it a try at their own restaurant. They say the robot will not replace any waiters or waitresses. One waitress thinks the robot will be a big help, especially for large parties. 'On days there's only one waitress, so when the phone is ringing and the lobby is full, it helps,' said waitress Alisha Carmickle. 'You can do the drinks and manage the phone, just you send the robot and he just takes it straight to the table and you just by the time you get there, he's there so you can unload him.' Fat Boy's Pizzeria is trying to come up with a name for their robot. They're thinking of turning it over to the community and letting people vote on names on Facebook. You can find a link to their Facebook page here. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
BBC News
11-05-2025
- General
- BBC News
Brookwood Military Cemetery is UK's largest war graves site
"I think it's really important that all of these graves are visited and that people know their stories."That's what Megan Maltby of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission told Radio Surrey about the largest war cemetery in Military Cemetery, which covers a 37-acre site near Woking, is home to 1,601 burials for people who died in World War One and 3,476 for people who died in World War nationalities of people laid to rest at the Surrey site include Commonwealth countries, wartime allies, as well as Germans and Italians. The land began as a civilian cemetery in the 19th Century but expanded into a military cemetery after WW1 broke of the youngest people known to be buried at the site is South African soldier Thomas Knowles, who Ms Maltby said is believed to be "part of a musical band that was travelling with the South African army".The 15-year-old died of influenza "like so many others in 1918", she Military Cemetery is also the resting place of 27 Indian soldiers, whose graves were moved from a different cemetery nearby in 1968 after vandalism incidents. George Cross recipient memorialised Among the names commemorated on the Brookwood 1939-1945 Memorial is Anglo-French spy Violette Szabo, who worked on behalf of the UK's Special Operations Executive in Allies trained Szabo as a field agent and sent her to France during its occupation to feed back useful Maltby said: "She was with some resistance fighters at the time they were stopped by a German patrol."She was captured by the Germans, she was interrogated, she was tortured, she was sadly put to death at a concentration camp."Szabo is one of only four women to be awarded the George Cross after she was posthumously given the gallantry McKenna portrayed the spy, who married a member of the French Resistance, in 1958 film Carve Her Name with Pride.
