Having worked in restaurants in the early part of my career I have been thinking in restaurants recently that having an iPad would be great and was even trying to talk a restaurant manager friend in to doing it recently. I thought it would have been great for taking bookings, showing photos of dishes etc but the person in question was a little conscious of the costs. Imagine my shock when low and behold I come across this video today of a restaurant in Australia that has replaced it’s menus entirely with iPads. The app running on the device is called menupad and diners can look through the different dishes as well as seeing photos of what they are going to be eating before their orders get sent to the kitchen automatically. This is a great publicity stunt but if you imagine that this is a 50 seater restaurant and they need at least 20 iPads at a time with an average price of $600 you are looking at a whopping $12,000 just for menus. The flip side though is that the restaurant are due for a load of worldwide press as well as local TV crews and newspapers camping out to cover this tech story with the media value of this coverage running into the millions it will make the $12,000 look like money well spent. So what do you think? Would you like to use an iPad in a restaurant that has another diner’s greasy fois gras stained fingers on it?

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