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Order from this online menu, on your smartphone while sitting in the restaurant. Or call a waiter (with a bell icon)
See what your dish will look like, and what it will cost. Get extra interesting information, even play a special "restaurant game" with other diners, until the food is there. (Oh, and
they tell you an estimate of how your order is advancing).
Rate your waiter(s). Give them thanks. Sign the guestbook. Stay in touch, get recipes or give recipes.
http://www.uwink.com/
Restaurant with a touch-screen on every seat. (Think Pong tournament.) Not wireless, but similar issues, opportunities as this post. [jutta, Nov 10 2007]
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At a restaurant I was in a while back, the waitstaff used PDAs on a Wi-Fi network to take orders (I think it was a graphical-based system, with a table/seating plan as the top level). It wouldn't be very difficult to extend the system so people could put their own order into it. [+] |
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(-) I already sometimes feel like I'm surrounded by half-conversationing zombies staring at their iPod, iPhone, or blackberry. This would just make things worse by moving even more of the interactions from a perfectly nice physical space into virtual space. |
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You're in a restaurant (or, as I like to call it, "The Happiest Place On Earth"). You're with your friends. There is food on the tables around you; food being carried around; food being prepared in the kitchen. Real food. Use your sense of smell. Smile at someone and ask "that looks delicious - what is it called?"
If it's inedible, they'll tell you. |
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I gave this one a plus despite the social problems. I'm talking cool factor here ;) |
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And you could tip the server over SMS and ensure that you never have to talk to anyone. |
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Not to mention, the overall bad manners of even pulling your phone out over dinner, gives this idea a big aquatic bone. |
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A small screen on each table that the establishment set up, so I don't have to inflate my cell bill or drain my battery (bluetooth) would be a more elegant way to pull this off. |
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I guess I'm one of those weirdos who doesn't have a crackberry and finds typing an SMS harder then talking. |
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Being the literal guy I am, I read your headline as "Bluesecondth." |
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I'm torn. I really resent how electronic doodads have infiltrated our culture and are now substituting for actual person-to-person interaction. For that, I'd give it a (-), and it's a pretty strong one. |
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But your concept is pretty good - Bluetooth connectivity so it doesn't fill up the carrier bandwidth, and it's cheap. Implemented well, it could make the restaurant's service faster and/or more efficient. And in contrast to my earlier statement, your suggestion of an eatery-specific intercustomer game is socially positive. That gets a (+). |
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Embrace the LED-illuminated zombieness! Interconnectivity is your friend. Don't be afraid. |
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In spite of the phone, (+). |
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I could stand outside the diner and bluetooth prank order food to unsuspecting tables. |
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Plus all the BT enabled phones running in one place... sounds like BT highjack heaven! |
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Prank-proofing is the other half of this halfidea. |
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Jutta, I'm afraid I wouldn't like to see such a restaurant let alone eat in one. I prefer family and friend occasions eating together intimately, and even listed an HBIdea of a natural restaurant. But it seems like a good business, if any HBer is in the need for one. |
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