Tuesday, October 17, 2006

uWink or touch that screen on your table

uWink - an interesting new restaurant concept from Nolan Bushnell, of original Atari games fame, and Chuck E. Cheese. Not exactly a takeout place, but certainly an interesting concept in restaurants, and since they use computers for ordering - it fits in this blog, although it's way too early to tell if the concept will fly.

Apparently it's very computerized, with heavy use of new technologies, such as RFID, for tracking things. Ordering is done via a touch-screen computer built into each table. The computer is not only used for ordering, but for multimedia, game play (even between tables) and advertising, no doubt.