A London restaurant called Inamo has rocketed dining into the 21st century with touchscreens embedded in its tables that allow diners to preview their food, order from the screen, customize their tabletop, and look up information about other local happenings.
What may be an attention-getting move for a single high-end London restaurant could point to a much bigger future for chain restaurants.
For instance, imagine a chain with 1,000 restaurants installing a system that delivers updated menu and ordering information over the Internet to tabletop LCDs that customers could use to order, see ads, play trivia games, etc. Such a system would need a robust, centrally managed infrastructure to deploy all the content.
While getting the first restaurant chain on board with this might take some work, it’s not hard to envision that sort of restaurant information network going into operation nationwide in the next decade or so.
Tip of the hat to Engadget.
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[...] Today on InformationAppliance.com: Inamo, a new high-end London restaurant, has installed tables with built-in touchscreens that allow diners to order their meals, customize their tabletops, and look up information about local events. Beyond being a neat experience, this could point a direction for chain restaurants … read more [...]