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iPad
Can iPads replace waiters and waitresses? We'll soon find out. A hotel restaurant in Australia last week ditched its printed menus and replaced them with iPads, giving us yet another peak at what the hotel of the future might look like.
According to the Daily Telegraph reports, the restaurant at Rydges North Sydney - a stylish, business-traveler-oriented hotel - had a special application made to process menu requests, although waiters and waitresses will still be needed to ferry food from kitchen to table.
Using the app and iPad, the article says that customers who dine at Global Mundo Tapas can:
- browse the menu with the sweep of a finger,
- order meals and drinks,
- see a photo of each dish, in addition to the expected description,
- tell the kitchen how they'd like their steak cooked, and
- learn which wines go best with each dish
In the future, the app may also make it possible for people to order food based on the weather - or their mood, the story says.
The hotel's general manager told the newspaper the new iPad platform will enhance customers' experience - but also make the restaurant more efficient.
The iPad system also tracks inventory, so if a certain dish or a certain wine is sold out, then that item will automatically disappear as an option, the article says.
Source: TravelUSA