Restaurants such as Koh at Mumbai's InterContinental, Escobar and Royal China and Delhi's Setz and FU-Better than China, offer diners digital menus on tablet PCs like Apple iPads.
The menu, mostly offered as an app on the tablet PC, gives the diner a visual tour of the dishes with pictures, wine pairings and snippets about the ingredients, which enhances customer experience and tempts them to try out new dishes.
Gagan Kalra, a glass sculpture artiste and a regular visitor to Melting Pot, the restaurant brand of Juhu Residency Boutique Hotel, loves the way it now hands out digital menus.
"These iPad menus instantly help you discover new dishes, chef's recommendations, seasonal favourites, and so on," he says.
Kalra maintains that his 'health-conscious teenage daughter' always opts for the 'Smart Search' option on the digital menu that allows her to search for a specific product and personalise the dish by adding specific instructions for its preparation.
Melting Pot has been offering the digital menus to their customers during lunch hours for the past one-and-a-half month.
The digital menu is called Titbit and has been developed by Valuable Group for Juhu Residency Hotel.
The business-to-business application is part of an end-to-end platform and is one of the first workflow applications to be certified by Apple.
Veda, a restaurant at High Street Phoenix mall in Mumbai, is also rolling out the iPad application and restaurants like Mainland China, too, are set to introduce Titbit's menu app on touchscreen tablet PCs on a pilot basis in coming months.
Ameya Hete, executive director of Valuable Group and the brain behind Titbit, says, "The idea was to improve a diner's experience within the restaurant.
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