I’d be surprised if there isn’t an app so people can order from their table using their phone, including electronic payment. No more standing in line, no more grimy cash.
I think it was an Applebees. They had a tablet at the table that you could punch your order in and pay with. It was sitting at the table - it had a game or something on the screen. After the waiter had taken our order I asked him what the tablet thing was.
“Oh - you can order with that - but nobody does.”
IIRC they wanted a $1 to play some game on it while you wait for your food. I wonder how many kids with games on their phones would play it?
Yep. It’s just a matter of time. And if restaurants are designed a little differently, say with some kind of discreet conveyor system, you won’t even need a waiter to deliver the food to the table, and only minimal bus staff to do the cleanup.
These idiots better watch that they don’t price themselves right out of existence.