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Re:E la Carte Signs Deal With Applebee’s to bring 100k Table... by samstave on Monday December 02, 2013 @06:12PM (#6837295)
As someone who ate at my local (alameda, CA) applebees for the first time in a decade - I can say that I would never again go there, but do have a question:

Why is there not a GPS enabled menu app which will load the restaurant's menu when you launch it and it detect which place you are dining at and allow you to make your order. To confirm you are in the establishment and making a valid order - have a QR code on the table that must be scanned to supply the destination table for the order.

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Re:E la Carte Signs Deal With Applebee’s to bring 100k Table... by TheBiv on Monday December 02, 2013 @08:49PM (#6837990)
I can confirm that some QSR's are doing this right now, but as the other commenter said, a "one size fits all" app would not work bc Applebee's does not want to be right next to Chili's on the app. However, white label apps that have payment (like Square) are already in test markets!
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Re:E la Carte Signs Deal With Applebee’s to bring 100k Table... by untog on Monday December 02, 2013 @08:17PM (#6837869)
You're looking at it the wrong way around - why would a restaurant use that? Do they really want you to be able to access the menu of the restaurant next door?
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Re:E la Carte Signs Deal With Applebee’s to bring 100k Table... by Jtsummers on Monday December 02, 2013 @10:20PM (#6838262)
I think samstave meant with your own device, not a restaurant device. An app on your iDevice or Android device that would bypass the need for them to maintain their own hardware (?), though I think that would be making a big assumption, it may let them hand out the devices on an as needed basis.
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Re:E la Carte Signs Deal With Applebee’s to bring 100k Table... by samstave on Monday December 02, 2013 @10:58PM (#6838381)
Yeps.

Personally I see a puniversal app for ordering based on GPS and specificity confirmation being a solid way to handle this in the future.

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Re:E la Carte Signs Deal With Applebee’s to bring 100k Table... by melatoned on Monday December 02, 2013 @09:48PM (#6838175)
Because QR codes are terrible.
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