Restaurant Serves Food On iPads

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Nothing says you're hard up for a gimmick more than serving food on iPads. Remember back when the food, service and atmosphere were all you needed for a successful restaurant? Oh well, I guess this is working, because here we are all taking about it. ;)
 
Reminds me of those Liquid nitrogen restaurants (a good number of whom ended up losing money and/or going out of business because playing around with expensive/fancy stuff is, well, expensive).
Those kinds of restaurants are, IMO, more like "concept restaurants" rather than places you will still see around in 20-30 years.
 
jkw said:
Can I just get some plain ole pepperoni pizza served on an Android tablet?
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That's gonna be smaller than a plain slice here in NYC, and gonna cost you a lot more than $2.50, too ... :p
 
So how do they sanitize them not like then can be tossed in the wash at 180f like is required by the public health Dept...

Also one of the most germ covered surfaces you can encounter....
 
yeah but if you ate that crap you might think they cleansed the screen organically with some wonder fairy dust
 
This is the most hipster sack of shit I've seen all day. Who the fuck sees a raw truffle and is like "I wish I could experience finding and digging this out of the ground myself!"? And at $220, hell no.

Lunas said:
So how do they sanitize them not like then can be tossed in the wash at 180f like is required by the public health Dept...

Also one of the most germ covered surfaces you can encounter....
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There's some sort of weirdo case that it's in, nothing ever touches the iPad directly.
Tusk noted that the food sits atop a custom sheath that's cleaned after each order, so no food actually touches the iPad.
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This is some serously dumb shit.
If a restaurant served me on an iPad I would just get up and get the hell out and never come back.
 
eh.. ill be the first person here to say i think its kinda spiffy. and im 35, not a hippie teenager.

a) NFC whats pictured on it. looks more like what food becomes than food.
b) what else would you do with an old (say, 10 year old?) ipad?

it wouldnt be a REASON to go to the restaurant, but just like lit up bars, aquariums behind bars, neon lights, or any of the other random stimulation present at most bars these days.. its neat. not necessary, but nothing wrong with it.
 
jonathonball said:
I'm feeling a little uncultured; can someone explain to me where the food is in that picture? It looks like someone dumped out a few small potted plants.
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They are serving white truffles hidden within foliage so the customer has to 'forage' for the food. So you're pretty much right, fungus hidden within dirt and leaves.
 
tungt88 said:
Reminds me of those Liquid nitrogen restaurants (a good number of whom ended up losing money and/or going out of business because playing around with expensive/fancy stuff is, well, expensive).
Those kinds of restaurants are, IMO, more like "concept restaurants" rather than places you will still see around in 20-30 years.
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20-30 years? My guess is less than 1% of restaurants make it that long. 3/4 die within 5.
 
Why not make large commercial touch screens as tables? Seems to make more sense than having iPads as serving dishes.
 
Do things, get rich, only to fake digging into the ground for food. I don't get rich people
 
An very early organic uncooked food on an used iPad?

*looks at the bill* Whoa!

*pays the bill, dumped food and kept the iPad* Thanks waiter!

*tosses $5 tip and walks away*
 
Wow -- retarded.

If you want to impress me with something like this... serve me a big greasy delicious burger on an ipad... and have the ipad streaming some kind of fucked up / hilarious porno of a chick doing naughty things with food items... think that's edgy enough?

I can see where crap like this is going - person A eats off an ipad... person B finds an even more expensive resturant serving food on ipad pros. "Would you like us to sprinkle some diamonds on the food sir so your poop can sparkle later?"

Part of me really wants some form of zombie apocalypse to happen just so candy ass fucks that buy into this shit will get a quick and painful dose of what surviving actually means.
 
"Remember back when the food, service and atmosphere were all you needed"

No, but I remember when all I wanted was a cute hostess with huge tits......wait, that was just yesterday.
 
At first I was thinking the iPad would get destroyed because of utensils, but come to find out they serve White Truffles, which, if memory serves me, are some of the most expensive food items, I think they can be close to $10,000 a pound? So restaurants that serve this sort of item would probably use plates that are more expensive than an iPad anyway.
 
Hahaha......root food on an iPad.

You need a gimmick to sell that stuff.
That place will last about 6 months.

I would like to see a nice piece of steak served on one of those iPads.
 
Microsoft is getting a Surface version ready for Arby's.
 
magoo said:
Hahaha......root food on an iPad.

You need a gimmick to sell that stuff.
That place will last about 6 months.

I would like to see a nice piece of steak served on one of those iPads.
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Do restaurants with 3 * fail in 6 months? My guess is no, but I don't eat at those restaurants.
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How do they wash them? Are iPads waterproof? Doubt it. Stupid idea.
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I suspect they have a screen protector on it...maybe one that completely covers the home key. Alternatively, there's a piece of glass over the iPad. It's not like they're doing anything other than watching the dog look for Truffles, while eating truffles.
 
nilepez said:
Do restaurants with 3 * fail in 6 months? My guess is no, but I don't eat at those restaurants.
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You better believe it.
I've seen supposed three and even 4 star places go down in flames faster than that.
It all depends on how quickly the cool kids tire of their gimmicks.
 
magoo said:
You better believe it.
I've seen supposed three and even 4 star places go down in flames faster than that.
It all depends on how quickly the cool kids tire of their gimmicks.
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3* is as high as it goes for Michelin and I doubt the cool kids can afford $400 for a date (not counting wine, which is $15-$80 a glass)
Regardless, this place has been open for 10 years, and is one of a handful of U.S. restaurants that are rated at 3 stars in the U.S. Again, not for me, but it's not going anywhere.
 
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