The future of casual restaurants is going to be no waiters. As in place your order from an iPad type thing///// find a table////// Pick up your order at the counter/////
This will apply to couples and large families and everyone else
Chili’s has that automated bank Nazi thingy at the tables to pay your bill. The first time I encountered it, I told the waitress I don’t have a credit card, only cash.
I haven’t been back since.
As presently done at Panera Bread and Chipotle in some locations.
The Minneapolis airport has a restaurant like this. All they have are food runners. Still managed to bring me the wrong order since the runner didn’t know the difference between Bolognese and Carbonara sauce
You could be correct in your iPad/serve yourself theory.
I just do not think it will fly. We do not dine out to eat, we dine out to relax in a different atmosphere. Good food, a nice setting, and the waitress that “waits” on us is all apart of the mix. If the service is good, I do not object to paying a good tip.
If that iPad/serve yourself thing ever materializes, it will be McDonalds or just plain cooking a good meal at home.