Ha! Although you guys make a good point, just as the tables are quickly cleaned between visits by the waitresses, the iPads are cleaned. It really hasn't been a big problem.
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Ha! Although you guys make a good point, just as the tables are quickly cleaned between visits by the waitresses, the iPads are cleaned. It really hasn't been a big problem.
Aww, I posted a whole reply and then got a 503 "guru meditation" error that wiped my post.
Anyway, basically I wouldn't want to replace human interactions with waiters/waitresses. Though I could see this technology being used at fast food or takeout type places. Imagine walking up to a kiosk, ordering your custom burgers or pizzas, getting a ticket number printed, then just waiting for your number to be called.
But for sit-down places? No, I like talking to service staff.
Anyway, basically I wouldn't want to replace human interactions with waiters/waitresses. Though I could see this technology being used at fast food or takeout type places. Imagine walking up to a kiosk, ordering your custom burgers or pizzas, getting a ticket number printed, then just waiting for your number to be called.
But for sit-down places? No, I like talking to service staff.
Not unlike my aunt who never touches door handles or knobs, paper money, rails on stairways, paper menus in restaurants, the bottom of trays in delis or cafes with trays, paper cups in dispensers...and on and on. Wears gloves and is single. Go figure.
The iPad is not meant to replace the server, it just allows the guests to control their experience (place orders and pay their bill without having to always wait for the server to come back) and allows the server to become more efficient (not collecting cards, check splitting, getting signatures, waiting in line for a POS terminal, etc). In fact, it allows the servers to spend more time assisting the guests...
(don't want to sound like a salesman, just trying to clear up the misconception that the iPad replaces the server)
BWW needs to work on their service more than this imo. Everyone I have been to, the service is lousy
Good thing they are not using Androids or the food orders would get messed up.
Flamebait. Why so angry? And why even bring Android into the discussion. This story has nothing to do with Android. In case you didn't read it - it's about a restaurant that serves wings and is using the iPad.
When I see people that wear gloves in public...indoors, it makes me think what is wrong with them?
As per bacteria, makes your immune system strong
Maybe that's why I can't recall the last time I have been ill lol
Though I think when dining, most people probably prefer convenience over concupiscence.
This great for your one friend that doesn't have a smartphone. They now have something to do...
Don't be too discouraged by the comments here. They're always overwhelmingly negative for every news story. Sounds to me like you guys have a great product. Don't listen to these fools. Haters gonna hate.
This is pretty wtf-y. Sounds like an idea some tard in a high-level position threw out to an executive meeting, hoping to prove he had some use in the company, and those guys went for it.
So are they going to hose the iPad off after all those nasty hands have molested it? I always did want a gooey iPad to use at a restaurant!
Don't use cleaning products on your iPad!
Don't worry, I don't have an iPad and wouldn't use Windex anyways! But thanks!
I cannot possibly give you as many thumbs up as I want to in agreement with this statement. MacRumours would run out of thumbs up.
+ sticky fingers, people who don't wash their hands properly after using the washroom and people with colds etc. Nothing like someone rubbing their hands across a cold sore while surfing on an iPad that I am supposed to touch after they leave to order food....
The idea that technology creates unemployment is an economic fallacy. http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa068.html
Technology raises wages because it increases productivity. Yes, in the short run some people might be out of a job, but when labor is replaced by technology it frees up the labor so it can be used for more productive uses.
Our goal should not be to create maximum employment. If it were, we could simply outlaw the use of all machinery and require all production to be done by hand. But would anyone argue that this would not make society as a whole much poorer?
I don't carry cash. I would say EVER but in the course of a year less than 100.00 touches my hands. Generally it is proven that the keypads on the instant teller devices at restaurants are pretty filthy, I just wash my hands after. But the idea of having one staring at me during my dinner just blows.
I look at it this way, I order the food, the waitress might bring it over and ask how it is, I pay for it via iPad, to me I might just as well go up and get my food myself and save the tip since I am doing all of the work.