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On the opposite side of the planet to Cupertino, California is theisland nation Sri Lanka, home to Nihonbashi Japanese Restaurants, thefirst restaurant in the world to use the iPad. Nihonbashi has alwaysbeen ahead of the curve when it comes to restaurant design, creativityin foods and bringing to diners the cultural and gastronomical appealof Japanese Cuisine.

The half Japanese, half Sri Lankan owner ofNihonbashi, Dharshan Munidasa, a Johns Hopkins Graduate, watched theipad launch from across the oceans while preparing content for theipad; and now guests can browse through the menu and view the specialsphotographically. “Describing an original dish without a picture is tough and hardcopies are time consuming and expensive,” says Dharshan as he preparesto use the ipad to communicate to guests the daily specials. “No youcannot order from the ipad,” he continues, as he’s strongly againstautomated ordering that could erode the relationship betweenrestaurant and diner.

According to Dharshan, the ipads will also be used in the administration aspects of Nihonbashi operations ascommunications between team members and idea sharing will becomeeasier, faster and more descriptive owing to pictorial representation- and all this without paper. Dharshan explained that the ipad will soon open up a new medium inwhich hotels, resorts, restaurants and banks especially can use as apromotional tool in advertising. With peace settling in the country after decades of war and tourismgathering momentum, Dharshan now wants to show the world that SriLanka and his restaurant Nihonbashi is a place where innovative ideasthrive and are not restricted to the Dubais or the Singapores of theworld.

Wine Lists, daily specials, guest comments and much more will formpart of the content found on the ipad allowing guests to emaildirectly from their ipad comments or take part in surveys and luckydraws. Dharshan added that a special application will also bedeveloped for this very purpose at a later stage. Trying to be the first in the world to introduce the ipad in arestaurant is especially hard owing to the fact that Sri Lanka is onthe other side of the globe from the US. If Nihonbashi were based inthe US, Dharshan claims the implementation of the ipad could havehappened on the ipad launch day itself, but with a general electionand almost a week of holidays, 9 days later can’t be too bad either.

Source Daily Mirror