LOS ANGELES, Sept 17 — Out for dinner on your own? Well, there just might be a solution to pass the time alone while waiting for your food to arrive.

How you ask? Well, it’s possible thanks to projection mapping. Skullmapping, an artistic collective run by Antoon Verbeeck and Filip Sterckx, has designed a special computer animation that will be played on the table while guests wait for their meals to be served.  

Le Petit Chef is a performance projected onto your empty dinner plate that features a funny little animation of a tiny chef stepping out of a manhole and preparing your meal himself. You’ll totally forget about waiting for you meal as the minuscule culinary master converts your plate into a grill, chops down a broccoli tree, pulls up fresh digital potatoes, and faces off against his fly nemesis.

Watch as this restaurant table is turned into a digital short film while the guests wait for their meals.
Watch as this restaurant table is turned into a digital short film while the guests wait for their meals.