Put it on my tablet
April 22, 2011 2:32 AM   Subscribe

E La Carte has revolutionized menu ordering and brought it into the future by providing a touchscreen menu.
posted by twoleftfeet (4 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: FPP built around a TechCrunch post is probably not a good post for metafilter -- vacapinta



 
On the positive side, not having to wait around to catch someone's eye is useful if you're in a hurry.

On the negative side... just about everything else. My mother, for example, wouldn't be able to have a lengthy one-sided conversation with a confused-looking teenager about her coeliac disease. And my father-in-law wouldn't be able to mix-and-match totally incompatible things from the menu ("Can I have the seafood linguine, but without the pasta, in a bread roll? And have you got any pickled onions?"). Without these things, you've lost the joy of dining in public.
posted by le morte de bea arthur at 2:45 AM on April 22, 2011


Ipad menus have been around for a while now. This reads like a shill post.
posted by benzenedream at 2:54 AM on April 22, 2011


The Taco Bell in my neighborhood had touchscreen menus about 10 years ago. Not quite sure why they got rid of them.
posted by sklero at 3:01 AM on April 22, 2011


Ipad menus have been around for a while now. This reads like a shill post.

That's a horribly jaded thing to say for anybody who hasn't been using these things in ordinary restaurants for a while already. Apparently individual interactive menus connected to the kitchen are common in your neighborhood, but they aren't yet in mine.

And no, I don't have anything to do with any commercial enterprise involved.
posted by twoleftfeet at 3:04 AM on April 22, 2011


« Older She Comes In Colors   |   The battle of Stokes Croft Newer »


This thread has been archived and is closed to new comments