Jamie Hill went to a new restaurant the other day that required her to order food not from a waiter but by swiping her fingers on an iPad.
“It was amazing,” she says of her visit to Stacked, a create-your-own burger and pizza restaurant here that opened last May. “My daughter brought me here and showed me how to do it. You get to build your food. It was fun.”
Stacked, which has two locations in California and is set to open a third in October, is one of many eateries now using technology — specifically iPads or other tablet computers — to serve customers.
Steakhouses in San Francisco, Atlanta and Chicago use tablets to let customers make wine and steak selections. At 12 locations in Boston, Au Bon Pain lets customers choose ingredients for their sandwiches using an iPad.