{"id":14144,"date":"2014-12-10T15:53:15","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T15:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/?p=14144"},"modified":"2016-09-07T02:50:40","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T02:50:40","slug":"put-waiters-waitresses-unemployment-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/put-waiters-waitresses-unemployment-line","title":{"rendered":"This Could Put Waiters And Waitresses On The Unemployment Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-14145\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/waiter-148663_640-300x300.png\" alt=\"waiters\" width=\"356\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/waiter-148663_640-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/waiter-148663_640-620x620.png 620w, https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/waiter-148663_640-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/waiter-148663_640-600x600.png 600w, https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/waiter-148663_640.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 356px) 100vw, 356px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Please don&#8217;t pass this blog post onto any family members or friends that wait tables for a living. You&#8217;ll only succeed \u00a0in depressing them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Big time<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>As a mater of fact, if you <em>do<\/em>\u00a0 pass this blog post onto the waiters and waitresses in your life, they&#8217;ll probably decide to never wait on you again.<\/p>\n<p>Please don&#8217;t do it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>The Scenario<\/h2>\n<p>It&#8217;s Friday night, and your kid is back from college for winter break.<\/p>\n<p>She likes-and misses, <a title=\"panera bread franchise locations\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/food-franchises\"><strong>Panera Bread<\/strong><\/a>. The girl needs some soup and a muffin. Heck, she&#8217;ll eat anything Panera serves after 4 months of college, and the bland food served on campus. So, you run up there, grab a table, and start looking at the menu.<\/p>\n<p>What menu?<\/p>\n<p>The one that&#8217;s on the table?<\/p>\n<p>No. <em>There isn&#8217;t one at the table<\/em>. There are no glossy, tri-fold menus on your table. As you look around, you notice that there are no menus on <em>any<\/em>\u00a0 of the tables at your local Panera Bread <a title=\"Buying a franchise with your IRA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/7-powerful-reasons-buy-franchise-using-401k\"><strong>franchise<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So, you order your food how?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oh, wait. Your tech-savvy 19 year old spots something.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>This Could Put Waiters And Waitresses On The Unemployment Line<\/h2>\n<p>The &#8220;<em>something<\/em>&#8221; she spots is a Tabletop tablet.<\/p>\n<p>On it, a little sign that says, &#8220;<em>Order here<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fantastic.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Waiters And Waitresses In A Box?<\/h2>\n<p>You&#8217;ve heard of these 5 companies, I&#8217;m sure:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ziosk<\/li>\n<li>Tabbedout<\/li>\n<li>E la Carte<\/li>\n<li>iMenu<\/li>\n<li>MenuPad<\/li>\n<li>E la Carte<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t-which means like me-you&#8217;re really out of the loop when it comes to some of the current <a title=\"franchise technology\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/how-is-their-franchise-technology\"><strong>technology<\/strong><\/a> trends affecting food franchises, they are the companies that are at the forefront of Tabletop tablet manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p>And, these 5 companies may send <strong>waiters and waitresses<\/strong>\u00a0to the unemployment line-and soon.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m so happy that the technology that&#8217;s around now, wasn&#8217;t-<a title=\"joel libava was a waiter\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/the-food-service-business-being-stuck\"><strong>when I was a waiter<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>A Short Franchise Video<\/h2>\n<p>I put together a short video on the topic of Tabletop tablets, and how they could affect waiters and waitresses.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, <strong>Franchise Direct<\/strong>, for making the information on Tabletop tablets and franchising available to the masses via your blog.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KQtL8zwHiVI?rel=0&amp;controls=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"480\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a title=\"tabletop tablets for food franchises\" href=\"https:\/\/www.franchisedirect.com\/blog\/theevolutionoftableservicetabletoptabletsmakingtheirwaytofranchises\/?r=4647\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<strong>\u00a0Read this article on Tabletop tablets on Franchise Direct.com<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n<p>Will this new technology put a lot of waiters and waitresses on the unemployment line?<\/p>\n<p>Let me know in the comment section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please don&rsquo;t pass this blog post onto any family members or friends that wait tables for a living. 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