Tag: RESTAURANT

The iPad has a new use in several restaurants, including the famous Bone's steakhouse in Atlanta, as a digital wine list. Diners are supplied with a ten-inch tablet, equipped with an automatically updating list that offers not only the name and price of a wine, but a description from the source vineyard and reviews from critics. Bones is reporting that, since the introduction of the iPad wine ...

Share Isn't it just so tedious and antiquated to pick up the phone (that thing you get your email from) and dial those awful little numbers, just so you can talk to a bored 19-year-old hostess for a reservation at your favorite restaurant? Yelp and OpenTable seem to think so, because the mega review site and online booking system have teamed together to streamline the whole picking-a-restaurant ...

Readers, this is your 'WTF' for the morning. The terrifically named Lapassarad Thanaphant, owner of Japanese restaurant Hajime in Thailand, decided that plain old human waiters were passé, and has thus chosen to employ a small battalion of samurai robots to serve her customers. At a cost of close to a million dollars (30 million baht), the four Japanese robots deliver food (ordered via ...

Yahoo!'s recently launched Sketch-a-Search is one of the most interesting apps we've seen in a while for the iPhone. The app lets you search for local restaurants by drawing a circle (or triangle, square or trapezoid) with your finger around the area in which you're trying to find a place to eat. The app gathers your GPS coordinates on launch, and then you tap the "sketch" button in the middle ...

Planning lunch or meals with friends can be a royal pain. Nobody can agree on when or where, and, without fail, someone is always forgotten in the shuffle of invite e-mails and text messages. That's where Lunchwalla comes in. The pitch is simple: choose who to invite, select some restaurant options (easier said than done), set the time and day, and hit send. The people you've invited will then ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2009/07/22/bizarre-virtual-restaurant-air-yakiniku-a-huge-success/'; Proving once and for all that perception is everything, Japanese virtual restaurant Air Yakiniku has become the 29th most searched site on Yahoo!. (Warning: Google Translator does little to help with this one.) Allow us to explain. The virtual Korean BBQ restaurant, originally designed for ...

Balancing reality and virtual worlds can be a problem for some gamers, but one Beijing restaurateur is hoping it leads to a booming business with his 'World of Warcraft'-themed eatery. Geeks need to eat too, right? The entrance to the restaurant is a recreation of the Dark Portal, the intro animation from 'WoW: The Burning Crusade.' Once you get inside, the walls are lined with pictures and ...

A chic London restaurant and bar called Inamo is making patrons' dining experiences digital by projecting colorful menus and aesthetic patterns onto touch-sensitive tabletops. When browsing, patrons can preview the food as if it were on the plate in front of them -- only flatter, we suppose. They can also order their meals, look up neighborhood services, and select one of seven visual vibes ...

Who has time or patience any more to deal with waiters? Apparently not Michael Mack, the proprietor of 's Bagger's (yes, it's spelled with an apostrophe-s), a one-of-a-kind, fully-automated restaurant situated on the outskirts of Nuremberg, Germany. 's Bagger's does away with a wait staff entirely. Patrons order via touchscreen computers at their tables, rather than from an impatient server ...