The restaurant of the future is living in the past: hands-on with Moneual’s Table PC

Moneual’s Table PC is a coffee shop-style table with a built-in touchscreen and a reader for both tapped and swiped credit cards; sit down at it and you’ll get a selection of four drinks, which you can tap to automatically order and then pick up at the bar. It’s sleek, functional, and science fictional… but you could get the same results by strapping an iPad and a Square reader to a desk, and I’m willing to bet that’s exactly what most restaurants will do instead.