Restaurants are figuring out how to do without servers

Re:Restaurants are figuring out how to do without servers by refurb on Monday June 25, 2018 @06:53PM (#17396523)

Was recently in terminal 3 of Newark airport and they had a bunch of table seating throughout the airport with tablets mounted at each seat.

You could order food through the tablet from the restaurants close by.

I loved the experience. You could browse the menu, fine tune an order, get a drink, then pay (with tip) on your credit card. Someone then brought your food to you in under 10 min.

Seems simple enough, but Jesus it was a way better experience than a normal airport restaurant. Avoided all those problems you mentioned.

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Re:Restaurants are figuring out how to do without servers by danielharan on Monday June 25, 2018 @07:32PM (#17396725)

Do you remember how many language options there were? Adding many seems like a really good reason to replace humans with tech.

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Re:Restaurants are figuring out how to do without servers by phil21 on Monday June 25, 2018 @08:26PM (#17397021)

They have these in MSP, and it may be a bit of an exaggeration but basically "all of them" - at least enough to quiz my teenage geography nerd on flags for a minute or two.

I have no idea how good or extensive those translations are, but assuming these are OTG terminals it's a pretty tightly integrated vertical so I imagine pretty good.

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Re:Restaurants are figuring out how to do without servers by xenomachina on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @02:26AM (#17406146)

Did it ask for the tip amount before you got your service?

Doordash does this, which I always find kind of backwards. Just the point of a tip to reward better service?

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Re:Restaurants are figuring out how to do without servers by sampo on Monday June 25, 2018 @08:28PM (#17397028)

Some of the tablet screens were really smudgy, though. So kinda gross.

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