My design was done in roughly 30 minutes. Idea took a couple of moments in my head, second idea came as i worked in Illustrator. I came up with the relatively simple idea when being frustrated by long waits in queues at the bar! I really only drink one type of drink over and over if I’m socialising and so it can be frustrating having to wait in a long queue to do this.
My concept makes it easier to reorder a drink, without queuing. This would of course, need a waiting service to be available.
My first idea was to have coasters that either correspond to a certain type of drink or have the order info scanned into them, that the user would take to sit with their drink. The coaster would weigh the glass, and when the glass was full nothing would happen. When there was no glass on the coaster, nothing would happen. But when the user placed the glass on the coaster empty, this would order another of the same drink, to the table.
I then realised, giving customers a digital coaster can be annoying, like those coasters you get to let you know your dinner tbale is ready.
So idea 2:
A table with an integrated platform, or an additional mat or platform to place drinks on, that would be loacted in the middle of tables. The users can simply put their finished drink in this space to order the same again. The platform would have many ‘weight spots’ so that it can intelligently weigh more than one item at a time. Creating orders for several people at once.
I hope your love for beer (and hate for waiting times) means you have a love for this simple design too.
