Scott Burrows, General Manager, completed a 3 month pilot of Mobile Matadee. According Mr. Burrows,  “Mobile Matradee works great and guests love it.  Mr. Burrows has lead the adopting of Mobile Matradee using an iPad with the handi holder attachment with is very comfortabe.  “The Ipad works great…much better than anticipate. It is way better than using a labtop.”

Brandon Munson, President of Fulcrum Design, LLC, stated ” Working with Scott we were able to customize a solution specific to Chili’s. We added an email collection features to increase the email captures through Mobile Matradee. An enhancement we’ll make available to current and feature clients.” Further more, “I am excited about the opportunity to work with Pepper Dinning, Inc. and look forward to the opportunity to serve additional locations as the opportunity presents itself.”

Mobile Matradee is a best of breed restaurant 3 in 1 text pager system that uses text and voice messaging, digital wait list and mobile marketing. Text pager systems such as Mobile Matradee, send a text or voice notification to the guest cell phone when their table is ready.  Mobile Matradee’s text pager system offers an integrated digital wait list, call a head setting and text and voice notification as well as an option email or text marketing application. Contact Brandon Munson at www.fulcrumdesignllc.com
1-888-669-9729 or bmunson@ymail.com.

Mobile Matradee is a best of breed restaurant 3 in 1 text pager system that uses text messaging and voice messaging to a guest cell phone along with a digital wait list and wait time reporting. Text pager systems such as Mobile Matradee, send a text or voice notification to the guest cell phone when their table is ready.  Mobile Matradee’s text pager system offers an integrated digital wait list, call a head setting and text and voice notification as well as an option email or text marketing application.

Repproduced from the Daily Nebraskan

Over the last few years, the image of students talking, texting or e-mailing on their phones in between classes has become increasingly common on most college campuses.

And this trend doesn’t show any signs of slowing down.
A new study performed at Ball State University found that 99.8 percent of college students now have some kind of cell phone, and that smart phones are accounting for more of their electronic communication and computing needs than ever before.
The study was conducted by Michael Hanley, director of Ball State’s Institute for Mobile Media Research. Hanley began the study in 2005, and examined the phone usage of 5,500 students over the course of 11 surveys.

Around 30 percent of the students from the survey also used e-mail of some kind, and 25 percent use instant messaging. And with smart phones allowing people to access these services from their phones, computer usage has been dropping even more.
“In the few years since instant messaging leaped from the computer to the cell phone, a new mobile lifestyle has evolved for college students,” Hanley said. “And except for studying, the computer is quickly being left behind.”
Jennifer Knust, a senior accounting major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, said she uses her phone for nearly every method of communicating with people, even websites like Facebook.
“You can pretty much do everything from your phone now,” Knust said. “And it’s right there with you all the time so there’s really no reason to use a computer for stuff like that.”
Students have also been using phones to meet their Internet needs as well, with nine out of 10 students who have smart phones regularly accessing the Internet from their mobile devices according to the Ball State study. And with web-based games and social media being available through phones, Hanley said computers are losing many of the services students used to need them for.
But cell phones aren’t totally replacing computers for everyone. Brandt DeVries, a junior restaurant and tourism management major at UNL, said he uses his smart phone for e-mailing and quick trips online, but he doesn’t see it fully replacing his computer.
“It’s handy and all but it’s also really small,” he said. “You can’t multitask on a Blackberry and it’s not like you could write a paper on one of these or anything.”
Although the smart phone is king of college student technology right now, Hanley said that might not always be the case. Just like smart phones have replaced computers, new devices like the iPad could take over for phones.
“College students are the first to adopt new types of communication technologies,” Hanley said. “I think the iPad and similar devices may change the way they communicate yet again as the technology evolves.”
adamziegler@dailynebraskan.com

http://www.dailynebraskan.com/smart-phones-beating-out-computers-1.2277275#.Tr9nV91RHpI

Riverside Community Hospital has been using what it calls the “Know Before You Go” text system. Patients send a text to the system and it responds with an estimated wait time.

Hospital administrators say the system not only cuts a person’s wait time once they arrive at the ER, it also helps the hospital design ways to become more efficient.

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This Page will highlight comments from the field, actual restaurants and guests who experiencing Mobile Matadee first hand.

The Ipad worked great…much better than anticipated.  It is way better than using the laptop.  I also bought an item called “hand-e-holder”  which also the host the hold the unit very comfortably.  Scott, GM, at Chili’s, Pepper Dinning

Chilis Staff Enjoying the benefits of Mobile Matradee on the iPad 2

People trying to quit smoking are twice as likely to succeed when they get mobile-phone text messages to encourage them, according to a study reported on Thursday by The Lancet medical journal.
British doctors recruited 5,800 smokers and randomly assigned them either to a group that received specially-tailored SMSes or to a control group.
The first group received five messages a day for the first five weeks and then three per week for the next six months.
The messages — developed with the help of smokers themselves — gave advice for keeping weight off while quitting and encouraged participants to persevere.
“This is it! – QUIT DAY, throw away all your fags [cigarettes],” was an example of what they received on the day they started cessation. “TODAY is the start of being QUIT forever, you can do it!”
Volunteers in this group also had a personalised system in which, at times of need, they got help by texting the word “crave” or “lapse”.
They would receive this kind of reply: “Cravings last less than 5 minutes on average. To help distract yourself, try sipping a drink slowly until the craving is over.”
In response to the “lapse” text, they would get this response: “Don?t feel bad or guilty if you?ve slipped. You?ve achieved a lot by stopping for a while. Slip-ups can be a normal part of the quitting process. Keep going, you can do it!”
In contrast, smokers in the control group received bland SMSes every fortnight thanking them for taking part or requesting confirmation of contact details or other messages that were unrelated to smoking.
Throughout the trial, volunteers in both groups sent off samples of their saliva by post.
These were tested for cotinine, a chemical found in tobacco, to see if they were still smoking or had given up.
After six months, 10.7 percent in the SMS support group had been continuously abstinent, but this was only 4.9 percent in the control group. Success was similar across all ages and social groups.
The researchers say the “txt2stop” trial demonstrated a powerful, low-cost tool for combatting smoking addiction — and one that could be adapted around the world.
In 2009, more than two-thirds of the world?s population owned a mobile phone and 4.2 trillion text messages were sent.
“Text messages are a very convenient way for smokers to receive support to quit,” said Caroline Free of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who led the experiment.
“People described txt2stop as like having a ‘friend’ encouraging them or an ‘angel on their shoulder’. It helped people resist the temptation to smoke.”
Txt2stop is the latest investigation of mobile-phone messages as medical tools.
In a study published last November, HIV-infected  in Kenya were 12 percent likelier to achieve full adherence to their drug regimen than counterparts in the non-text group.
Smoking kills more than five million people each year, and two out of three British smokers have said at some point they would like to quit, according to figures quoted in the study.
Previous research has found that SMSes encourage smoking abstinence, but these experiments only lasted six weeks, as opposed to six months, and the results were self-reported by the volunteers, rather than checked in lab tests.

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