Nov

23

iPhone Dining

posted in gadgets, by Codrut Nistor


Without sleeping and eating, I think we would really have a global economic crash. Just think about this - tomorrow, when you wake up, you feel no need to eat or drink, while at 2AM, you feel no need to sleep and - even more - you're simply unable to sleep, eat, or drink. That would really crash the global economy, but I am sure the gaming industry would really take off, since all of us would have much more time left for entertaining ourselves. Anyway, today we're not going to talk about gaming, since there's something even more interesting - dining. Well, not quite only dining, since "dining and the iPhone" sounds much better!

Since I don't like to talk a lot before getting to the food-related part, let's say that Zagat To Go, priced at $9.99, and OpenTable, a free iPhone app, are today's targets matching the "iPhone dining" description.

First of all, Zagat To Go bundles the 2009 version of the notorious Zagat Survey Restaurants,
Nightlife, Shopping, and Hotels guides, giving you quick access to the ratings of the place you're just about to visit, right on your iPhone. After all, it's better to find out you're making a mistake a few steps before making it, don't you think?

Well, once you know what's up with the place you want to visit, you can simply fire up OpenTable, and take full advantage of this free real-time system which allows you to check which restaurants have availability, which are completely booked, and which have openings only in certain time slots. Obviously, you can do all this online, without calling all those locations you may want to go to and are fully booked. If only dining would be free with this program, everything would be perfect...but you'll still have to pay for your food and drinks, unfortunately...

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