Company to begin testing restaurant iPad POS system

As far as pos apps go Quick sale pos is much better looking than this. I don't think it would have features of a restaurant specific pos app like this, but this doesn't look Iike it uses the ipads screen real estate and simple ui effectively at all.

I went to the first ipad restaurant in Munich Germany, it was called La Baracca. You walk in to this restaurant in an old car sales room, there ceilings were wooden and the floors as well. The concept was, "Old meets new, with a comfortable feeling." It was made this way so people wouldn't find the idea of ipads and a "wired" restaurant so foreign. Every table had an ipad in a brown suede case and inside was the ipad. The steps in the restaurant working were...Firstly, you sit and wait for a man to explain how to work the ipad by putting an electronic card on the 'key symbol' and you are able to initiate the device. The menu is already set and you click on what you want and it saves on the bottom of the screen. Once you have what you want, you simply press check out. The bill then appears on the screen and a wireless order is sent to three computers located in the kitchen, to the 'delivery people' (who bring you your food, there is no specific waiters) and within minutes the food is brought. It was interesting how easy it was to use, once people figured out where to put the card they could use the ipad so freely. Even older generations were fascinated by the concept. I was scared... after this restaurant, in six months. 100 others will be put in the famous cities in the world, one in each of the cities. Starting with Norway then traveling over to Paris, London and New York. As I was talking to the manager he leaked the new idea for the restaurant...he said, "If you come back in about a month's time, there will be projectors from the ceiling, projecting an image onto the table and you will be able to use the image as freely as any ipad, wIthout the screen. There would be electronic pixels... It was mind blowing to think about how advanced our world really is.

check out POS monitoring from Bast Monitoring -> www.bastmonitoring.com/pos-monitoring

its a different kind of pos monitoring

Restaurants could use YWaiter (www.ywaiter.com) instead. YWaiter lets the customer order and pay from their own iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch.

Just a big LOL...

1º-- giving ipads is not a restaurant purpose, and theres allways a smartboy to discover how to unlock all safetys....

2º-- drinks and ipads dont work so well... mistakes and spills happen too often...

3º-- Imagine all the ipad´s price tag... not so cheap... and restaurants are not swimming in money

4º-- im a POS installer/IT i know that all programs are done to windows/linux not macOS....

huge LoL after this....

The interface of the restaurant app seems horrible and very cluttered. Not a very friendly or intuitive interface.

Also, the typing in the credit card number is bad, and able for mistakes or whatnot. Why not a card reader like Square has? (squareup.com)

I found on youtube another POS system for the iPad! It looks easier to use! :-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-QJ2Q81MxQ

did anyone else notice that there is a full credit card number there?

I think a lot of people are being a bit to harsh on this system. I'm thinking that this is just a demo of what the final product could be. There's no mention of if the software can be personalized for certain restaurants. And also its software. So changing the U.I. is not that big of a deal.

As for dropping the iPad. Well I won't be performing any tests on mine, but from what I've seen it can take a little wear before giving up the ghost.

Now for some critiques. The only thing I didn't like was the guy signing for the check with his finger. I actually had to do this when I bought my iPad. The Apple employee hands me his remote terminal. I asked: where's the stylus? He says: just use your finger. Sure signing with your finger would look better because of the larger screen. But it will still not look anything like your signature.

Why don't you just buy lots of iPads and build them into the tables (and reinforce them). And scrap the waitress ordering stuff :)