Tag: RESTAURANTS

The next time you find yourself trying to get the attention of a flighty waitress at a crowded restaurant, you might want to put down your hand and pull out your cell phone. Some restaurants have begun implementing a program called 'TextMyFood,' a service that allows patrons to directly communicate with their servers via text message. With 'TextMyFood,' customers can place orders, ask questions, ...

Looking for that perfect vintage to accompany your filet mignon? Sneaking out for a quick bite during your lunch break? The iPad is here to help. Restaurants across the nation have begun directly embedding the tablet into the eating experience, with benefits for patrons and managers, alike. A Chicago upscale steakhouse, called Chicago Cut, for example, has purchased some 40 iPads to help ...

Private clubs and upscale establishments typically set themselves apart (and have for centuries) by taking a devoted, personalized approach to guests. Managers expect employees to diligently learn the preferences of regulars in order to create a more intimate dining experience. But sites like OpenTable now allow every manner of eatery to keep such tabs on their customers, and guests are already ...

According to CNET UK, British restaurant chain Pizza Express will soon install iPod docks at booths, and hang soundproof domes above seats, so that patrons can listen to music while they eat. Customers will sit in a parabolic booth with an iPod or iPhone dock situated beneath the descending dome. The hemisphere traps sounds emitted from the dock, so that other diners aren't disturbed by the jams. ...

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 ...

Food is only as fast as the corners cut making it -- or such has been the corporate, American idea of fast food preparation technology. Yet, the fast food restaurant 4food dislikes this philosophy, and is opting to open a three-story restaurant in midtown Manhattan and to break practically every rule in the, err, fast food book -- if there is such a thing. First off, there are over 140 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Share We couldn't imagine there's much of a shared demographic between Denny's and Twitter, but the ubiquitous breakfast joint doesn't seem to be working too hard at growing one, either. Although Denny's does administer two Twitter accounts, and although its menus do list a Twitter URL, there's one slight problem. That URL -- twitter.com/dennys -- doesn't belong to Denny's. It does belong to ...

When will people learn that Twitter isn't the place to complain about their job? Jon-Barrett Ingels became another footnote in Twitter history after he was fired for writing a nasty tweet about HBO star Jane Adams. The former waiter at Barney Greengrass in Beverly Hills was outraged after Adams, who appears in 'Hung,' skipped out on $13.44 bill earlier this summer. Believe it or not, she actually ...

Just how do you make Ramen noodles even more of the dish du jour for the lazy? The college staple is cheap as dirt and effortless to cook, so how about letting a robot do the work for you? Of course, it took the Japanese to combine noodles and robotics. According to the Daily Mail, noodles at the Fua-men noodle shop in Nagoya are prepared and spooned out by robotic arms. The appendages are ...