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A comment on Deep Thoughts on the Food Tech Revolution by Captain Obvious McClure.

Re:Deep Thoughts on the Food Tech Revolution by Captain Obvi... by caffeineninja on Friday December 28, 2012 @02:41PM (#4979156)
This has been done to a degree, and it failed pretty quickly, faster than most. uWink opened a restaurant in Mountain View with tablets for ordering food and playing games while you wait.

The tablets had menu items complete with photos, reviews, and it took about 15 minutes for the food to arrive to your table. Typically the waitstaff would only bring you your drinks and food. The Mountain View location of uWink was open for less than a year.. about 9 months, so you can all guess how well that went. Most restaurants, even terrible ones, managed to stay open for more than that!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UWink

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Re:Deep Thoughts on the Food Tech Revolution by Captain Obvi... by prostoalex on Friday December 28, 2012 @03:42PM (#4979406)
It wasn't tablets, it was 20-inch LCD monitors with sensors. That were in your face. To the point where if you wanted to talk to your lunch buddy, both of you had to lean to see each other's faces.

Check out Siam Fine Dining in Palo Alto that runs E La Carte tablets on their tables. Very quiet and refined experience.

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Re:Deep Thoughts on the Food Tech Revolution by Captain Obvi... by jmartens on Friday December 28, 2012 @07:31PM (#4980377)
yes, because 1 company/restaurant failed...no other will ever succeed. Thanks for your ever so brilliant wisdom.
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Re:Deep Thoughts on the Food Tech Revolution by Captain Obvi... by davemc500hats on Friday December 28, 2012 @09:16PM (#4980763)
seriously.

and the world needs like, maybe 5 computers total.

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