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makalah Engelbrecht has her hands full with two little girls that's why at lunch time at the San Francisco Chevy's restaurant she's happy to put technology into their little hands to keep them busy my older one was watching I'm cartoons the whole time we were eating and she could navigate to the interface herself so it was really easy these are Chevy's z asks tabletop gadgets on trial at 12 of these tex mex restaurants nationwide diners can use them to order appetizers dessert play games or browse the news the cutting edge piece is nice because it is a novelty something that's different than not everybody has but the big payoff for z oz is how it boosts the bottom line of its wait staff our servers have seen their tips go up because it's you can tip with a press of a button instead of actually having to think and calculate it out but not all restaurants give tabletop technology a five-star review we lost a couple of iPads we were a little naive we thought oh we just leave here to host and it's secure but it wasn't so the iPad pilot program was abandoned and it was back to traditional paper menus for this San Francisco steakhouse powering down is a move that many diners appreciate takes away from that opportunity to actually have a conversation I just don't see the big advantage of it right now but ordering your meal through a tablet could be the next big trend in places where you don't want to have conversation like the airport thousands of iPads are being installed in airport terminals by the restaurant group OTG so along with ordering meals delivered to your seat passengers can check their flight status and their Twitter feeds now that's a recipe sure to satisfy any techie in San Francisco I'm Kara Tsuboi cnet.com for CBS News