North Sydney Restaurant Replaces Menus with iPads
 

The Global Mundo Tapas restaurant has replaced its' menus with iPads. According to the article, patrons can browse the entire virtual menu and see pictures of the food as well as get recommendations for complementary wine. The iPad sends the order back to the kitchen and the back end database keeps track of stock as well so if something is sold out it automatically gets removed from the menu.

This is just the beginning. In the near future I can see the tablet devices replacing paper forms that are filled out in places municipal and doctor's offices.

Any thoughts?

Source: Restaurant Replaces Menus with iPads

That's a very cool use of the iPad althopugh I have to wonder how the devices will stand-up to all that handling in an environment fraught with liquid hazards :)

I guess that you would have to see a statistic for how many times liquid is spilled on a restaurant table.

All I know is that with me in the restaurant the average would go way up :p

And, wow...how are they going to police the customers to make sure no one walks out with one?!

Seeing how most establishments only have a front door that patron's walk in and out of it isn't going to be that hard.

They will probably have a sensor that goes off if the iPad goes past it.

Did anyone else see the article on engadget (might gave been gizmodo) of the bacteria counts they found on the iPad test units at the NYC Apple Store?

:smack:

Ah, good point. Just seems an awful expensive gimmick! But who knows, maybe those printed menus are more expensive than they look. :rolleyes:

Why would you find less bacteria on a traditional menu? At least you can clean the iPad. How many restaurants clean their regular menus?

Course the patron needs to be familiar on operating an iPad and it's still pretty new, especially out of the US. Wondering if this the the beginning of an Urban legend?

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I get my iPad wallpapers from pictures I have downloaded to my iPad

Quite a few restaurants have already played the high-tech angle over the years, and it wouldn't surprise me if buying a few dozen iPads and coding up a simple app was cheaper than e.g. the e-table approach of projectors and touchpads (as used at Inamo for the last couple of years).

It's almost certainly more flexible and simpler to maintain since nothing is fixed to the tables or ceilings, they're just interchangeable wireless devices.

The first time a four year old picks it up and it crashes to the floor, they will see the folly of their experiment.....

Heck, the first time a klutz like me picks it up and ...............

They'll have to hire a full-time staff member just to wipe down the screens in between customers. Love my iPad, but man does that screen get greasy quick. Even when you're not eating!

New iPad Restaurant Ordering Program Launched

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/New-iP....html?x=0&.v=1

What? No tables with touch-sensitive LCD tabletops?