Both Panera and Chili’s have turned to tablets to help streamline their service. If you have followed our blog over the last 6 months you'll see we've noted the emergence of some of the other interesting hospitality / commerce plays like Cover and Dash.
Chili’s has teamed up with Ziosk, a company that offers a tabletop small tablet with a menu, ordering options, games and a payment system. Austen Mulinder, chief executive at Ziosk, says roughly 20 million transactions a month take place over the company’s system.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/21/business/latecomers-to-technology-restaurants-dig-in.html?_r=0