Why do restaurants have menus?

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Five restaurants in Paris

Five restaurants in Paris 01/22/2004 02:19 PM

The NY Times had an article the other day about Comfort Food at Comforting Prices in Paris. While all five spots sound delicious, I'm especially tempted by Le Petit Pontoise if only because it's located on rue de Pontoise, the location of my mother's first apartment, rented for her 1996 sabbatical.

[O]n a recent visit, there was a wood crate filled with freshly gathered girolle mushrooms. It's the season, and the mushrooms were too tempting not to order. Quickly sautéed so that they remained juicy and slightly chewy, they were perfectly accented with garlic and parsley.

I'm really longing for a trip to Paris, it's been just long enough (seven months) that I'm missing it very much, especially since my favorite mittens from La Samaritaine got a hole in the thumb! I mean, I could replace my mittens here in NYC, but somehow French mittens seem superior, certainly these ones are, except for their hole.

Krystal Restaurants Get Wi-Fi

Krystal Restaurants Get Wi-Fi 06/01/2004 03:25 PM
Free Wi-Fi in about 10 percent of Krystal's restaurants by the end of June: This is a regional chain with 425 locations; 50 will have Wi-Fi this month, available for free. They'll filter content to avoid objectionable images showing up in a family environment -- just as Schlotzsky's does with their service -- but it's otherwise wide open. The restaurants are located throughout the south. Early locations include Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Kentucky, Alabama, Tennessee, and one in Texas. [link via Jim Sullivan]...

McDonald's Restaurants Down Under Unwire

McDonald's Restaurants Down Under Unwire 02/19/2004 12:43 PM
Telstra said last year that it would build hotspots in McDonald's restaurants and now Wi-Fi is available in 44 restaurants in Australia: Telstra plans to build hotspots in as many as 500 McDonald's over the next 12 to 18 months. McDonald's has been really aggressive in building out Wi-Fi globally, but has yet to make a decision on a single provider in the United States as the company indicated it would....

Some Wis. Restaurants Rationing Napkins
(AP)

Some Wis. Restaurants Rationing Napkins
(AP) 05/17/2004 01:35 PM
AP - Fierce competition for fast-food dollars has some restaurants taking an extraordinary measure to cut the bottom line — napkin rationing.

Sushi restaurants as economic indicators

Sushi restaurants as economic indicators 04/23/2004 10:43 AM
Tyler Cowen, economist and co-proprietor of the excellent Marginal Revolution, recently gave a talk to the International Association of Culinary Professionals and offered some food-related investment advice: If sushi restaurants are new to a country, and are succeeding, buy shares in the stocks of that country. Raw fish, of course, can be toxic. Quality can be hard to monitor with the naked eye. Sushi consumption is a sign that people...

effective bribing at nice restaurants

effective bribing at nice restaurants 04/09/2004 04:06 PM
the story's a few years old, but i bet that money still talks

Home Is Where The WiFi Is (And In Some
Fast Food Restaurants)

Home Is Where The WiFi Is (And In Some
Fast Food Restaurants) 01/07/2004 06:35 PM
A new study shows that more and more homes are likely to get WiFi connections. This seems like one of the more obvious predictions around, but it's still interesting to look at the numbers. The study points out that there are currently about 100 million broadband connections to the home worldwide - and only 5 million home users have WiFi. However, with the technology getting cheaper every day, and the clear benefit of having a wireless network in the home, it's likely to grow pretty rapidly (and, of course, that 100 million number isn't static either). This leads to two thoughts: (1) we still need to make setting up a WiFi network easier. Early adopters will mess around with finicky access points, but most users won't. It really needs to be plug and play. (2) Once more homes get WiFi, expect the unexpected in how they're used. Just like businesses are discovering - once that wireless network is there, there's no reason not to use it for other purposes as well. More devices are going to come with WiFi, and if they can just hop on an existing network, people are going to come up with all sorts of creative uses. Meanwhile, McDonald's continues their "we'll test a different location every few months" rollout of WiFi, as they've agreed to WiFi up over 500 restaurants in the UK. It looks like they're just teaming up with BT to be a part of BT's Openzone WiFi offering. That doesn't seem like the best choice, since already there are (reasonable) complaints that Openzone's pricing is way too high for what people get. In early tests in the US McDonald's was using a very smart pricing plan (buy a meal, get an hour of free service). It's unclear why they're not going with a similar plan in the UK. By offering up service with a meal, the internet access becomes a promotion to get more people into the restaurant. By charging insanely high fees for it, it doesn't bring in too many extra people, and certainly won't bring in much money.

Los Angeles bars & restaurants of the
40's & 50's

Los Angeles bars & restaurants of the
40's & 50's 04/15/2005 03:11 PM
Los Angeles bars & restaurants of the 40's & 50's

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Restaurants Closed for Opium Soup, Stews
(AP)

Restaurants Closed for Opium Soup, Stews
(AP) 06/17/2004 10:37 PM
AP - The soup wasn't just good. It was downright addictive. Narcotics police in southwestern China shuttered 215 restaurants found to be mixing opium poppy into their soups and hot pot stews, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Friday.

How's Your Digital Dinner? Restaurants
Go Hi-Tech (Reuters)

How's Your Digital Dinner? Restaurants
Go Hi-Tech (Reuters) 05/24/2004 10:47 AM
Reuters - Some of the world's biggest technology companies are setting their sights on the U.S. restaurant industry, to help them improve operations ranging from hiring wait staff to planning menus to buying appliances.

"experiences tipping maître d's to get
into insanely popular restaurants"

"experiences tipping maître d's to get
into insanely popular restaurants" 04/09/2004 09:09 PM

Client uses wacky dummy text for real
website: "We are truly the finest of all
possible restaurants."

Client uses wacky dummy text for real
website: "We are truly the finest of all
possible restaurants." 04/11/2005 05:12 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: A Boing Boing reader read my earlier entry about text greeking and sent me a hilarious anecdote. He designed a website for a restaurant called Windows On the Bay. The client had not yet given him the copy for the site, so he filled the page with what he describes as "incredibly overblown, remarkably pretentious text."

He says the client ended up using the copy!

Windows on the Bay is the finest restaurant on the Jersey Shore. We are the alpha and the omega in seashore dining and freshly prepared gourmet seafood. No other restaurant in New Jersey looks out over such a commanding view. We are truly the finest of all possible restaurants.

Our chefs have all been trained at the finest schools in the world, and they put every ounce of that training to work for you. We create each made-to-order dish fresh and put every ounce of our considerable skill and knowledge to work to make you the best meal possible.

Our highly-trained wait staff are here to serve your every need. They are ready to bend their skills and energy to every table, every serving; you will be waited on as you have never been waited on before.

We are sure you will come back for more. Once you've come to Windows on the Bay, you will never want to leave.

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Community Service Site Paves Information
Highway to Myrtle Beach Restaurants

Community Service Site Paves Information
Highway to Myrtle Beach Restaurants 01/02/2005 04:48 AM
Non-profit, community service Myrtle Beach website benefits web surfers and local restaurants [PRWEB Jan 2, 2005]

MOSe Menus

MOSe Menus 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
When in doubt, reload. I introduced my idea of MOSe, or Mozilla/Opera/Safari Enhancement about four months ago, with my Zen Garden submission mnemonic. It's time to take it further. With a strong nod to Eric Meyer's Pure CSS Menus,...

Mastering Menus

Mastering Menus 02/10/2004 02:46 AM
Just in case anyone missed it, Menu Master 1.1 is available. More info: Menu Master Download: Menu Master 1.1 Biggest...

Tab to select menus in Mac browsers

Tab to select menus in Mac browsers 06/05/2005 11:57 PM
I have repeatedly finding myself turning to the otherwise unused Windows box on my desktop for filling in online forms. The primary reason has been the Tab behaviour in Web forms: on Windows, you can tab between text fields, menus, radio buttons, et al; on Safari/Firefox on Mac, you skip the menus entirely and have to reach for the mouse and click. And this contextual switch is costly.

Now apparently this is "fixed" by enabling System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > Full keyboard access: "In windows and dialogs, press Tab to move the keyboard focus between: "Text boxes and lists only." Mea culpa.

I thought I'd clicked that long ago to no effect and a double-check finds that I was right. Despite the label "...and lists," it's only when you select "All controls" that tabbing to menus actually works in web forms. Mea culpa. Label culpa.

Replacing DHTML Menus with XUL

Replacing DHTML Menus with XUL 04/09/2004 04:05 PM

Fixed Side Menus with CSS

Fixed Side Menus with CSS 02/08/2003 08:23 AM
"...emulating frames with CSS fixed property."

Brain Sandwiches Still on Some Menus
(AP)

Brain Sandwiches Still on Some Menus
(AP) 01/16/2004 10:56 AM
AP - Fear of mad cow disease hasn't kept Cecelia Coan from eating her beloved deep-fried cow brain sandwiches.

Dynamic drop-down menus

Dynamic drop-down menus 07/26/2004 05:37 AM
CNET Jul 26 2004 10:23AM GMT

Getting More Out of the Query Context
Menus

Getting More Out of the Query Context
Menus 07/14/2004 01:31 PM

Perception: Serving Up Menus For ESPN

Perception: Serving Up Menus For ESPN 05/08/2004 03:47 AM
"When we first opened up, people told us we were crazy. But we did it with three Macs and three guys, and Final Cut." By Nancy Eaton, Apple (via MyAppleMenu)

10.3: Re-activate PTH menubar apps'
menus

10.3: Re-activate PTH menubar apps'
menus 02/10/2004 02:36 AM
A number of menu bar applications from PTH Consulting no longer display their menus in 10.3.x Panther. There is no official fix, as the company has joined with You Software and many beloved PTH apps are now unavailable for ...

Ask MacSlash: Resizing Contextual Menus?

Ask MacSlash: Resizing Contextual Menus? 05/04/2004 11:04 AM

Drop-Down Menus, Horizontal Style

Drop-Down Menus, Horizontal Style 06/29/2004 08:56 AM
Multi-tiered drop-down menus can be a hassle to build and maintain -- especially when they rely on big, honking chunks of JavaScript. Nick Rigby presents a way to handle this common navigation element with a cleanly structured XHTML list, straightforward CSS, and only a few concessions to browser quirks.

DragThing gets enhanced contextual
menus, more

DragThing gets enhanced contextual
menus, more 04/26/2004 10:25 AM
TLA Systems has updated DragThing, the dock application for Mac OS X (10.2 or later), to version 5.1.1, which adds enhanced contextual menus, AppleScript support and speed improvements...

Space bar opens pop up menus in iCal

Space bar opens pop up menus in iCal 11/02/2003 07:37 PM
I haven't tried his any other apps yet, but when I was in the info window in iCal, I noticed that when I tabbed out of the last of the date fields, the highlight kept going into the pop-up menus below. After some experimentin...

10.3: Navigate contextual menus via the
keyboard

10.3: Navigate contextual menus via the
keyboard 11/02/2003 01:02 PM
While a contextual menu is open, typing the first letter of an item in the contextual menu will focus the cursor on that menu item.

Making Expanding and Collapsing Menus

Making Expanding and Collapsing Menus 02/20/2003 09:43 AM
If you want menus that can expand or collapse when a user clicks on it, this tutorial will show you how to do it.

10.3: New contextual menus available in
Adress Book

10.3: New contextual menus available in
Adress Book 11/06/2003 11:13 AM
I have noticed some new Address Book features that I don't think were available in Jaguar (at least, some of them). The new items are accessed by clicking on the heading title (home, work, etc.) in the address card itself. Th...

Arrays and Dynamic Menus for Your Site

Arrays and Dynamic Menus for Your Site 08/21/2002 08:02 AM

Create custom DVD menus using Toast 6

Create custom DVD menus using Toast 6 01/05/2004 09:51 AM
I had a hunch that the background design for menus in Toast 6 must exist as a tif or jpeg somewhere inside of the Toast package. I was surprised to find that, actually, it's a PSD (Photoshop) file -- and it's not just the ba...

PHPComplete, Multiple Files, and Web
Menus

PHPComplete, Multiple Files, and Web
Menus 06/26/2002 01:01 PM

Mouseover Menus - a usability nightmare?

Mouseover Menus - a usability nightmare? 02/17/2004 12:04 AM
Yes, they've been trendy for over a year - but do those DHTML menu systems really work for website visitors?

Book Review: Usable Web Menus

Book Review: Usable Web Menus 06/26/2002 01:00 PM
Book review of the new glasshaus title, Usable Web Menus, authored by Andy Beaumont, Dave Gibbons, Jody Kerr, and Jon Stephens.

JobFlash Serves Restaurants Great Hires,
Fast. Round Table Pizza and others Slice
Costs and Turnover

JobFlash Serves Restaurants Great Hires,
Fast. Round Table Pizza and others Slice
Costs and Turnover 03/17/2005 03:02 AM
JobFlash, the award winning pioneer of Voice Recruiting, today announced the successful deployment of their recruiting automation solution at popular restaurants such as Round Table Pizza and Mimi’s Café, bringing immediate relief to high turnover and time-to-hire costs. [PRWEB Mar 17, 2005]

Zope Floating Menus by haqa on
2002/07/21

Zope Floating Menus by haqa on
2002/07/21 07/21/2002 04:33 PM

iVCD 2 adds menus, playlists to Video
CDs, more

iVCD 2 adds menus, playlists to Video
CDs, more 04/27/2004 05:36 PM
Mireth Technology unveiled iVCD 2.0 on Tuesday, a new version of their application for authoring Video CDs and Super Video CDs. The update adds the ability to include menus and playlists in Video CDs, a preview mode for encoded MPEG and more.

Strip My Work and Heat My Menus
(28-Jun-2004; 1.3K)

Strip My Work and Heat My Menus
(28-Jun-2004; 1.3K) 06/28/2004 09:40 PM

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