> A dining innovation that once looked like the future has worn out its welcome with many restaurateurs, customers and servers who say it takes the joy out of d

> A dining innovation that once looked like the future has worn out its welcome with many restaurateurs, customers and servers who say it takes the joy out of dining. This starts out bad. I don't think the process of talking to waiter first, and at the end trying to wave someone down so I can just pay to get out of there, is the "joy of dining". I want to eat and talk to whoever I am with, not talk to the waiter and wait for my bill.