In the dim light of dinnertime at your favorite restaurant, the glow of smartphones pops up, from table to table, making the mood lighting a little brighter. Silent customers who make eye contact only ...

Tablets and smart phones may be hastening the decline of family conversation. Applebee's intends to put a tablet computer on all its restaurant tables in the US. The 'Presto' tablets will allow diners ...

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Dismayed that family members are spread out over the house, each with a separate PC or tablet? Lenovo has something it believes will get them back together: a PC the size of a coffee table that works ...

Diners can use the 7-inch tablet to look at menu selections%2C order drinks and desserts and pay their checks. A red light on top turns on when an order is placed. But they can also play Trivia and ...

Applebee%27s will put 100%2C000 tablets in its restaurants Chili%27s has been placing tablets in its company-owned stores IHOP is looking into tablets%2C too That endless wait for the restaurant check ...

Most people only use the iPad’s on-screen keyboard for tapping out emails, tweets or Facebook updates. But Patrick Rhone of St. Paul wrote a book that way — with his Apple tablet at a slight incline ...

A pair graduates from the Eller College of Management have developed a digital menu service that allows restaurant patrons to browse, order and pay for meals from their table using electronic tablets.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Your next trip out to dinner could have you ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Buffalo Wild Wings announced recently plans ...

Editor’s note: Vladimir Edelman is the chief development officer of NTN Buzztime, a bar and restaurant social entertainment and integrated marketing platform. Restaurants as we know them have remained ...

Not 26-year-old Ivan Tsurikov. "I actually dread human interaction of any kind," he said. That's why Tsurikov, who works for a small investment firm on the Peninsula, prefers to order his lunch from a ...