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iPad's Momentum in Restaurants Grows with Buffalo Wild Wings Trial

TitoC said:
And yet you never picked up, leafed through and yes TOUCHED a printed menu? Or opened a public door? Used cash money?. /s

I''m just saying. While agree with everyone here about how ridiculous the whole "iPad Menu" thing, you also need to realize that germs are everywhere . . ."
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I'm not a germophobe...but there's a HUGE difference in holding a menu for 30-90 seconds and using your fingers on an iPad for 30+ MINUTES.
 
Touching iPad, that hundreds of other customers have fondled, then slopping down a bunch of wings with your hands and finally licking your saucy fingers.

Yeah, that's something I want to do. Just bring me the food and make it tasty without any other crap. If I want to use an iPad/Phone (whatever), I will bring my own and use your free Wi-Fi.
 
belltree said:
Touching iPad, that hundreds of other customers have fondled, then slopping down a bunch of wings with your hands and finally licking your saucy fingers. Yeah, that's something I want to do.
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So....I take it you don't hold the menu at a restaurant when you order? Same customers' greasy hands fondling those menus.

strabes said:
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.
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You said it: "Yes, in the short run some people might be out of a job..." And free them up to do what? Have more time to get another job? What if their circumstances don't allow them to get another job...or they were lucky enough to get the server job in the first place (down on their luck, just laid off from their career and they're starting over, going back to school, or a teenager's first job)? Did you ever have a job in the service industry? I did. Glad I'm not there now, but for some people it's how they pay the bills.
 
i know if my hands are dirty...eating chips and reading at lunch, I can use my knuckle to activate the screen controls.

sure some people won't know that or do that but I'd think some would.
And maybe all those complaining go to dirty BWWs, the ones around here are decently clean and clean patrons.


And this isn't the first time it is being used or the first for BWW, this is a second installment.
 
satchow said:
I see a lot of comments about being disgusted by a dirty iPad... It's a restaurant, they clean up the tables, silverware and plates after the previous customer is done with them. Do you not expect them to do the same thing with the iPads? Health codes anybody?
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cleaning tables, utensils and all the like are sufficiently easier than an iPad

The Tables can be doused by anti -bacterial spray and wiped down. Plus you'll typically be eating off plates. not table.

Those plates, Dishes, glasse,s silverweare and the like, SHOULD, and OMG do i pray that they are, put through proper cleaning machines before being deployed to the table.

Most restaraunts I know use Hobbard style dishwashers that absolutely blast whatever is inside it with extremely hot, high pressured boiling water effectively cleaning them from virtually all decontaminates from prior users.


How do you maintain the same level of cleaning to a tablet device
 
If only some of you guys knew what went on in the back of restaurants, the iPad would be the least of your worries...
 
hobo.hopkins said:
This could really be a cost-saving feature for restaurants, if they needed fewer waiters/waitresses. Although as others have pointed out, it would require some thought to overcome the logistical problems associated with chicken wings and iPads...
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I think they are using it more for novelty. Kind of like Damons did years back with the controls for the interactive trivia games and stuff.

They could never really replace servers with an iPad. Order accuracy would be better, but you'd still need the server no matter what. Especially with liquor sales.
 
AustinIllini said:
Once you touch it, germs are on your hand. 30 seconds or 30 minutes.
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I never argued against that. But there's a difference in the ODDS of getting germs from something you touch for 30 seconds vs. 30 minutes. I don't wipe my hands all over the menu either. But with an iPad, your hands are all over it...and likely others at your table. So the next person who sits down touches an iPad that may have been touched by 3-4 people prior...compared to touching a menu that was very likely only touched by 1 person prior.

Regardless of the germs, this idea has so many problems with it...many of which I posted before this germ sub-thread.
 
I think it's a good idea. Could keep kids entertained, so parents can eat.

At previous posters have already mentioned, they can just clean the screen between guests, and cover the exposed ports using an ipad case.

I imagine the iPads would be set to some kind of mode similar to the iPads that you find on display at the Apple store.
 
ericinboston said:
I never argued against that. But there's a difference in the ODDS of getting germs from something you touch for 30 seconds vs. 30 minutes. I don't wipe my hands all over the menu either. But with an iPad, your hands are all over it...and likely others at your table. So the next person who sits down touches an iPad that may have been touched by 3-4 people prior...compared to touching a menu that was very likely only touched by 1 person prior.

Regardless of the germs, this idea has so many problems with it...many of which I posted before this germ sub-thread.
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This really doesn't make sense still. You just said you didn't argue against getting germs on your hands after 30s vs 30min, yet you bring up the "odds" when both are essentially 100%. There's no difference in the "odds" unless you elaborated on what you meant.

And touching a menu being cleaner than an iPad? Maybe marginally, but think about this. You're touching the menu in all the same places the last person did, obviously. You support the binding of the menu, touch the ends of each page to turn the page, everyone using the menu does this. And I don't think they clean menus between tables either unless it's clearly dirty, so the 3-4 person vs. 1 person point is irrelevant.

With that said I do think there are a few issues with this (although germs aren't necessarily as big an issue as some might think), and I doubt they "replace" servers substantially at all.
 
Who Woulda Thought?

When the iPad was just a rumor, who woulda thought that the iPad would be used in restaurants?
 
I'm surprised there isn't the usual 'Isn't it great to see Apple products being used in this amazing way'. I guess it's because the ipad's gonna get dirty and defiled...hahahaha

Personally I can't think of anything worse than an electronic device getting in the way of people socialising. Why chat to your dining companion when you can browse the internet??!! There's something you never get to do, and if you do, it's not often enough.
 
linux2mac said:
Really? You are going to go there? The same US govt that let a US drone get hacked and land in Iran? :rolleyes:

"Engineer claims Iran downed drone by using fake signals to confuse it"

The US Army choosing Android only means our country's security just went down another notch. I am sure the engineers in the Mid East are happy with that news.

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/02/03/tech/mobile/government-android-phones/index.html?c=tech

"However, the government chose to work on Android first because Google already allows people to tinker freely with its code, said those working on the project. Federal officials have met with Apple, but they were told they could not have access to the core of the company's mobile operating system, said Angelos Stavrou, an information-security director at George Mason University who is working on the government project as a contractor, in a phone interview."

At least my food order won't get hacked with restaurants using the iPad instead of Android.
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Really? You are trying to convince us that the restaurants have better understanding of security than US government?

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Drunken Master said:
No, they chose it because it's cheaper.
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And the restaurants prefer iPads because ... it's more expensive?
 
This remote ordering technology has been in the restaurant industry for quite some time. Aloha POS and Micros have remote terminals that look like Palm Pilots for service staff to use to take orders.

iPads would be great in the hands of a server not the customer; i.e. to show pictures of items to guests, place orders, take payments, gather information for email programs, seating and reservation programs. Lots of potential for us restaurant managers to implement.
 
AidenShaw said:
...and no one actually talking with the friends with whom they've gone out to eat.

So sad....
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everyone seems to be talking about people are soooo less social. y'all need some new friends because despite all this technology, no matter where my friends and I are we talk the whole time and have good convos.
 
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