Tablet on the tip of your tongue: making it easier to pay for a la carte

E La Carte also received a 35 million-dollar C-round financing from Intel Capital and Romulus Two, a year after they had invested 13.5 million dollars in a B-round investment, but this time there was a personal investment from YC's new Sam Altman.

E la Carte's flagship tablet computer Presto is usually installed on the table, Presto has a menu and card system installed, allowing customers to order and checkout directly in their seats, so that the waiter can devote more time to focus on improving the customer experience. And if the customer waits for the dish, can play the above game to pass the time.

The latest statistics show that the Presto restaurant has increased revenue by about 5%, and that every table customer has reduced the total meal time by 7-10 minutes, thus saving the time for the new customers. and restaurants can visually analyze the restaurant's business by Presto the data collected.

Rajat Suri, founder, said future restaurants should know when customers need something. The era of digital survival, knowing what customers "need" and "when" seems to have become the fundamental purpose of all businesses to use digital equipment. And Suri believe that in the catering industry there will be more technical elements injected. We can imagine that, perhaps in the future, we don't have to ask the waiter how long the fish we ordered will be released, some kind of device will connect us to the kitchen, we can know the progress directly.

E la Carte's revenues are expected to reach $ tens of millions of trillion by the end of the year, and Presto's payments are close to $1 billion trillion. E la carte has two main ways to generate revenue, either by selling tablets and software directly to restaurants, and by charging membership fees for the technology every month, or by distributing tablets for free, and charging for games and music services on tablets.

This year, E la Carte has opened its programming interface to outside developers, and there are now dozens of companies that specialize in developing apps for Presto Tablet PCs.