Aussie diners eat up Apple iPad as menu

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A Sydney restaurant now uses Apples's ipad as a menu.

A Sydney restaurant now hands diners Apple's iPad computer from which to choose and order.

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An Australian restaurant has ditched printed menus and now hands diners the latest tech-craze, Apple's touch-screen iPad computer, from which to choose and order their meals.

Risking damaging wine spills and customers taking an iPad "to go", the Global Mundo Tapas eatery at the Rydges Hotel in North Sydney introduced its new menus this week - within a week of the iPad's Australian release.

"One of the points of difference for our restaurant was to have a unique menu," the hotel's general manager Craig Simpson said on Friday. "Everyone's excited about the iPad and we're jumping on the back of that."

Hundreds of people queued round the block in central Sydney to buy the iPad when it went on sale outside the US for the first time on May 28.

An iPad application developed ahead of the tactile device's launch allows diners at the 50-seat restaurant to browse the menu - complete with photographs and tasting notes - with a flick of a finger.

Order a steak and the application asks how you would like the meat cooked, and placing your order can be done with the press of a button.

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