In this post, we look at a couple of the earliest examples of digital menus for restaurants.
Global Mundo Tapas Launches their IPad Menu System - http://www.pcauthority.com.au/News/214867,the-future-of-dining-see-the-sydney-restaurant-thats-replaced-menus-with-ipads.aspx
The Global Mundo Tapas restaurant in Sydney Australia took the leap into digital restaurant menus in 2010, and won a lot of attention for this innovative step.
This change gave their customers the ability to see exactly what they’re ordering ahead of time – with clear, high-resolution photos.
X64 Eases the Transition with their Smart Menu
Another interesting example is the Smart Menu created by X64, a Portugal company that produces wireless handheld terminals.
X64 works with advanced technology all the time, but for this device, they created a digital menu that is child’s play to learn.
It addresses one of the challenges in introducing digital menus: the fact that some people don’t want to use them (at least at first), and prefer the old way of doing things.
To ease the transition, X64’s goal was to make a digital menu as similar as possible to the traditional menu.
To use it, the customer opens the menu and flips through the pages - just like with a traditional menu – and presses a little button beside any item they want to order.
Here’s a video demonstrating the X64 digital menu. It looks low-tech, but when a customer presses the button on an item, the order instantly appears in the kitchen.
Global Mundo Tapas Launches their IPad Menu System - http://www.pcauthority.com.au/News/214867,the-future-of-dining-see-the-sydney-restaurant-thats-replaced-menus-with-ipads.aspx
The Global Mundo Tapas restaurant in Sydney Australia took the leap into digital restaurant menus in 2010, and won a lot of attention for this innovative step.
This change gave their customers the ability to see exactly what they’re ordering ahead of time – with clear, high-resolution photos.
X64 Eases the Transition with their Smart Menu
Another interesting example is the Smart Menu created by X64, a Portugal company that produces wireless handheld terminals.
X64 works with advanced technology all the time, but for this device, they created a digital menu that is child’s play to learn.
It addresses one of the challenges in introducing digital menus: the fact that some people don’t want to use them (at least at first), and prefer the old way of doing things.
To ease the transition, X64’s goal was to make a digital menu as similar as possible to the traditional menu.
To use it, the customer opens the menu and flips through the pages - just like with a traditional menu – and presses a little button beside any item they want to order.
Here’s a video demonstrating the X64 digital menu. It looks low-tech, but when a customer presses the button on an item, the order instantly appears in the kitchen.
