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Applebees & Chilis Installing Tablets for Ordering

Posted on 12/21/13 at 10:32 pm
Posted by nolanola
Member since Nov 2010
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Posted on 12/21/13 at 10:32 pm


Applebees is ordering 100,000 of these things to retrofit all locations.

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Posted by Kafka
I am the moral conscience of TD
Member since Jul 2007
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Posted on 12/21/13 at 10:33 pm to
I'm gonna get some walkie talkies and reopen Round The Corner
Posted by TypoKnig
Member since Aug 2011
8928 posts
Posted on 12/21/13 at 10:34 pm to
I assume one day all restaurants will have some form of electronic order and pay at your table system. Eliminates the middle man. All waiters will need to do is refill drinks and run food.
Posted by UltimateHog
Thailand
Member since Dec 2011
69399 posts
Posted on 12/21/13 at 10:35 pm to
Lot of other places have these too.

Love them, and are the future.

Sucks for waiters though, smaller tips.
Posted by dyslexic
Left field
Member since Nov 2010
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Posted on 12/21/13 at 10:36 pm to


Do you down vote your own post?
Posted by LSURussian
Member since Feb 2005
134720 posts
Posted on 12/21/13 at 10:36 pm to
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All waiters will need to do is refill drinks and run food

How much do we tip a tablet?
Posted by nolanola
Member since Nov 2010
7636 posts
Posted on 12/21/13 at 10:36 pm to
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Sucks for waiters though, smaller tips.



This should all but eliminate the need for waiters. Now they'll just need a handful of food runners instead of an entire staff of waiters.
Posted by BrentED
Parts Unknown
Member since Oct 2007
2223 posts
Posted on 12/21/13 at 10:38 pm to
Ate at chilis in Alex today and they already had em. You can order with them, and pay your bill without waiting on your server. Kinda nice. They also have games for kids to play for 99 cents.

Waitress said she already had a table walk out who said they were paying on the screen and they didn't. Sucks, but don't know if I believed her. Fwiw. . . these tablets don't make service any better at chilis.
Posted by nolanola
Member since Nov 2010
7636 posts
Posted on 12/21/13 at 10:38 pm to
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They also have games for kids to play for 99 cents.


Brilliant.
Posted by crankbait
Member since Feb 2008
11643 posts
Posted on 12/21/13 at 10:39 pm to
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All waiters will need to do is refill drinks and run food.


Which will also be automated someday soon
Posted by wish i was tebow
The Golf Board
Member since Feb 2009
46124 posts
Posted on 12/21/13 at 10:39 pm to
Am I still gonna have to tip??
Posted by TypoKnig
Member since Aug 2011
8928 posts
Posted on 12/21/13 at 10:39 pm to
Restaurants are really the only place where you willingly give a stranger your credit card and let them walk away with it.
Posted by Eighteen
Member since Dec 2006
37383 posts
Posted on 12/21/13 at 10:40 pm to
Can't wait until McDonalds has these things.

$15 an hour LOL
Posted by Kafka
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Posted on 12/21/13 at 10:40 pm to
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Do you down vote your own post?
My DVers are the Phish fans of TD voting -- a very vocal minority shouting down the masses who love me
Posted by UltimateHog
Thailand
Member since Dec 2011
69399 posts
Posted on 12/21/13 at 10:41 pm to
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Waitress said she already had a table walk out who said they were paying on the screen and they didn't. Sucks, but don't know if I believed her. Fwiw. . . these tablets don't make service any better at chilis.



How is that any different from walking out normally?
Posted by nolanola
Member since Nov 2010
7636 posts
Posted on 12/21/13 at 10:41 pm to
quote:

Restaurants are really the only place where you willingly give a stranger your credit card and let them walk away with it.



People really are very trusting in restaurants in general when you think about the people handling their food.
Posted by zmonsoon
"The LP"
Member since Nov 2007
907 posts
Posted on 12/21/13 at 10:42 pm to
Loved the tablets at chilis the other day!
Very easy 2use & could even divide up a check among a big group.
As for the games-great for the kids...& i highly recommend the field goal kicking game. Good shite
Posted by nolanola
Member since Nov 2010
7636 posts
Posted on 12/21/13 at 10:44 pm to
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Can't wait until McDonalds has these things.



McDonald's uses them heavily in Europe.

Posted by BrentED
Parts Unknown
Member since Oct 2007
2223 posts
Posted on 12/21/13 at 10:45 pm to
Thats part of the reason i didn't really believe her aside from the fact she sucked.

I could see how it would be a bit easier. "so you just pay on this computer here and that's it?" "yeah, that's it." "ok, sounds good." Waitress goes to kitchen table walks out.

Again I still think she's full of shite.
Posted by rollindaddy
Member since Jun 2010
1725 posts
Posted on 12/21/13 at 10:58 pm to
used it chilis on millervile thursday.... it was sweet and best .99 cents i ever spent for game apps
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