The first restaurant in New York offers an ipad order with a swipe card device (pictured)

Some restaurants in South California State and China have already adopted the ipad ordering method Sina Science and technology news in the early hours of Beijing August 25, the Italian restaurant de Santos, New York West Sanlitun, has completed its transformation,　　From the traditional service approach to the full reliance on the ipad to provide a point meal service. De Santos, the the 1960s famous American rock singer Janis (Janis Joplin) and the American "father of the ballad" of the former frequented restaurant, Bob Dylan, the restaurant made the transition mainly based on two reasons,　　One is to make its ordering system more reasonable, the second is to enhance its visual appearance. The ipad at De Santos's restaurant is loaded with a custom point-of-sale (POS) system with a complete menu that allows customers to know exactly what they're ordering. The customer's order menu will then be sent wirelessly to the kitchen.　　In addition, the restaurant's ipad is also equipped with a card reader, its sales terminal system has a credit card payment system. Although it seems absurd to replace cheap paper and pencil with an ipad, but the owner of the restaurant said the transition could actually save money because of the shortening of time for customers to order and kitchen preparation, and the ability of shopkeepers to monitor staff remotely, which is bad luck for waiters who are unfriendly to their customers. This is the first restaurant in New York to use the ipad to order, but South California State and some Chinese restaurants have already used this approach before. (Tangfeng)