Restaurant Replaces Menus with iPads

Global Mundo Tapas, a restaurant in Sydney, Australia has created an app that takes customers' orders, doing away with paper menus and waiters. (Well, waiters will bring the food from the kitchen to the table, but they will no longer be taking orders and telling you about the specials of the day -- because there's an app for that..)

Diners can peruse the dishes and see a picture of what the dish looks like along with tasting notes before compiling their order and sending it wirelessly to the kitchen. The iPad menu can also suggest the best wines to go with certain dishes and suggest the best food pairings. When ordering steak, users can even specify how they'd like the meat cooked and which sauce they'd prefer. It will even ask them if they'd like fries with that. Mundo's iPad menu app can also help keep track of stock levels so if certain dishes and wines sell out they will automatically disappear off the on-screen menu.

PS: When Steve Jobs announces the new iPhone on Monday morning, will you promise to act surprised? We will. (Sprint beat Apple to the punch; the company released the first ever 4G high-def phone in the United States today. Sprint's phone, however, has a lot of kinks to work out and using it takes a lot of effort and time.)




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