The end of printed menus? Eatery in Chicago uses iPad

This restaurant is just one eatery of several across the U.S. that have started uploading menus and wine lists to digital devices. Do you think that this is the beginning of the end to the restuarant menu as we know it? 

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Keith, left, and Peg Bragg of Chicago view the wine list on an iPad at Chicago Cut steakhouse in Chicago on Dec. 1, 2010.

Charles Rex Arbogast / AP

Keith Bragg of Chicago navigates the wine list on an iPad at Chicago Cut steakhouse in Chicago on Dec. 1, 2010.

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It just gets sadder and sadder doesn't it !

    Reply#1 - Mon Jan 3, 2011 10:36 AM EST

    Just putting more and more people out of work....they just don't think, and you're right, Breeang, it is sad.

      Reply#2 - Mon Jan 3, 2011 11:09 AM EST

      It's called progress. Paper printers and wood choppers had better bone up on web services and Chinese.

        #2.1 - Mon Jan 3, 2011 2:51 PM EST
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        spill your drink on your 'old' menu and they can just wipe it up or replace it for very little money, spill your drink on their ipad and THEN WHAT?

          Reply#3 - Mon Jan 3, 2011 11:33 AM EST

          iPad, therefore I am.

            Reply#4 - Mon Jan 3, 2011 12:38 PM EST

            This will tie in nicely to my new invention...
            Diapers, that send an alert to a parents phone when their baby needs to be changed...
            I'm going to call it.... iPooped.

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            Reply#5 - Mon Jan 3, 2011 1:07 PM EST

            Great move. They can update their menu and prices hourly. Smart.

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