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A revolving restaurant is a restaurant
Restaurant

A restaurant prepares and serves food and drink to customers. Meals are generally served and eaten on premises, but many restaurants also offer take-out and Delivery ....
 on a revolving floorplate. The building remains stationary and the diners are carried on the revolving floor. The revolving rate varies between one and three times per hour and enables the visitors of the tower restaurant
Tower restaurant

A tower restaurant is a restaurant located in a tower and is accessible by an elevator. Tower restaurants are laid out in such a way that guests can enjoy the panorama when taking their meal and beverages....
 to enjoy the panorama of the tower without leaving their seats. Such restaurants are often located on upper stories of hotels, television tower
Radio masts and towers

Radio masts and towers are, typically, tall structures designed to support antenna s for telecommunications and broadcasting, including television....
s and skyscrapers.

arrel-shaped, but stationary, restaurant on Fernsehturm Stuttgart
Fernsehturm Stuttgart

The Fernsehturm Stuttgart is the world's first TV tower built from concrete .It is located on the so-called "Hoher Bopser" hill in the southern Stuttgart district of Degerloch....
, a TV tower in Stuttgart
Stuttgart

Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-W?rttemberg in southern Germany. The list of cities in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 590,429 while the metropolitan area referred to as Stuttgart Region has a population of 2.7 million ....
, Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
, built in 1956, was noted as the inspiration for the idea of a revolving restaurant.






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A revolving restaurant is a restaurant
Restaurant

A restaurant prepares and serves food and drink to customers. Meals are generally served and eaten on premises, but many restaurants also offer take-out and Delivery ....
 on a revolving floorplate. The building remains stationary and the diners are carried on the revolving floor. The revolving rate varies between one and three times per hour and enables the visitors of the tower restaurant
Tower restaurant

A tower restaurant is a restaurant located in a tower and is accessible by an elevator. Tower restaurants are laid out in such a way that guests can enjoy the panorama when taking their meal and beverages....
 to enjoy the panorama of the tower without leaving their seats. Such restaurants are often located on upper stories of hotels, television tower
Radio masts and towers

Radio masts and towers are, typically, tall structures designed to support antenna s for telecommunications and broadcasting, including television....
s and skyscrapers.

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A barrel-shaped, but stationary, restaurant on Fernsehturm Stuttgart
Fernsehturm Stuttgart

The Fernsehturm Stuttgart is the world's first TV tower built from concrete .It is located on the so-called "Hoher Bopser" hill in the southern Stuttgart district of Degerloch....
, a TV tower in Stuttgart
Stuttgart

Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-W?rttemberg in southern Germany. The list of cities in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 590,429 while the metropolitan area referred to as Stuttgart Region has a population of 2.7 million ....
, Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
, built in 1956, was noted as the inspiration for the idea of a revolving restaurant. A revolving restaurant on Forianturm, a TV tower in Dortmund
Dortmund

Dortmund is a city in Germany, located in the States of Germany of North Rhine-Westphalia, in the Ruhr area. Its population of 587,830 makes it the largest city in the region, 7th-largest in Germany, and 34th-largest in the European Union....
, Germany, was brought into service in 1959. John Graham
John Graham

John or Johnny Graham may refer to:In politics and history*John Graham , former head of the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis and the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs...
, a Seattle architect and early shopping mall pioneer, is said to be the first in the United States to design this sort of restaurant
Restaurant

A restaurant prepares and serves food and drink to customers. Meals are generally served and eaten on premises, but many restaurants also offer take-out and Delivery ....
 when he created La Ronde
La Ronde

La Ronde may refer to:*La Ronde , an amusement park in Montreal, Quebec, Canada*La Ronde, Charente-Maritime, a commune in the Charente-Maritime d?partement, in France...
 on top of an office building at the Ala Moana Shopping Center in Honolulu in 1961. Graham later also used the technology to build the revolving restaurant still in service at the top of Seattle's Space Needle
Space Needle

The Space Needle is a tower in Seattle, Washington, and is a major landmark of the Pacific Northwest region of the United States and a symbol of Seattle....
.

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