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Current Menus

Fairly typical upscale wine list by the King Cole bar in New York:

        http://www.kingcolebar.com/menus/AC%20Wine%20list.pdf

Same bar, really weird cognac list:

        http://www.kingcolebar.com/menus/Cognac%20Menu.pdf

Current Software Systems (Websites) for Drinks:

DrinksMixer.com

  1. http://www.drinksmixer.com/

WebTender

  1. http://www.webtender.com/

Current Software Systems for Bars:

Wine Ordering System: Restaurant that displays their wine list on iPads

  1. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/15/dining/15ipad.html

uWink Touch Screen Bar

  1. http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/touch-screen-restaurants-bars-interactive-table

iBar in Chicago called MadPoison

  1. http://weblogs.cltv.com/entertainment/tv/metromix/2009/03/chicagos_first_ibar_behind_the_touch-screen_menu_at_madpoison.html

Bars with Interesting Qualities:

“The World’s Best Cocktail Bar” They won a bunch of awards for their menu, apparently:

  1. http://www.themerchanthotel.com/index.php/the-bar-at-the-merchant.html

I like the heading “corpse revivers and picker uppers” :-p

  1. http://chanticleersociety.org/filestorage/Media/Merchant%20Hotel%20Bar%20Book%20I.pdf

Drink!: A bar whose claim to fame is bartenders who know their stuff, and no menus.

Current Software Systems for Restaurants:

Sheetz MTO System: A convenience store with a touch screen ordering system for food.

  1. http://www.sheetz.com/main/food/menu.cfm

Mytouchmenu: Currently sold touch screen menu for restaurants

  1. http://www.mytouchmenu.com/page-home-en.html

Restaurants with Interesting Qualities:

Waiterless Restaurant

  1. http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/food-from-the-ceiling-waiterless-restaurant

icreamcafe: Made-to-order icecream

  1. http://www.icreamcafe.com/

Touchscreens:

Touchscreen Cube

  1. http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/gesture-cube

Tips on how to design touch screen applications

  1. http://www.elotouch.com/Support/TechnicalSupport/10tips.asp

People discussing touchscreen restaurant menus:

http://www.whynot.net/ideas/2439

Ways to Represent Types of Drinks:

Chart showing types of beer:

  1. http://popchartlab.com/images/uploads/zoom/poster_beer_1300.jpg

How to categorize/choose every wine taste in existence:

  1. http://www.thechefinstead.ca/images/wine-tasting-chart.jpg

Music:

Drink libraries can be compared to music libraries, with recommendation engines and everything.

 

iTunes: Pretty much the “de-facto” music player, with the concept of your “library”, a visual representation in coverflow, and new recommendation (genius) and social features (ping).

  1. http://www.apple.com/itunes/

Pandora: Pretty much the “de-facto” music suggestion service, which is fairly sparse on information and control.

  1. http://www.pandora.com/

Last.fm: A music service that keeps track of songs played, with strong social aspects.

  1. http://www.last.fm/

SliceStation: (Disclaimer: This was Danny’s MobDev’s team’s final project) A music discovery application for Android that represented similar artists as a wheel.

  1. http://slicestation.com/

Playlist Pathfinder: An experiment of the Echo Nest to find songs to bridge the gap between two artists. Perhaps we could suggest a good progression of drinks.

  1. http://labs.echonest.com/PlaylistPathfinder/

Lots of other cool experimental music apps and visualizations are at:

  1. http://the.echonest.com/platform/showcase/