Last year I looked at a new app that was aiming to significantly enhance the way airline cuisine worked.  The concept was relatively simple and aimed to provide flyers with a greater choice of food during their flights.

Users insert their flight time into the app and are presented with the available restaurants at the airport.  All you have to do then is choose the meal that takes your fancy and pick it up when you arrive at the terminal.  You can then take their food on board and enjoy a meal that is hopefully more appetizing than the standard fare on offer.

Time crunched dining

This concept of speeding up the dining process, or at least reducing the time you have to wait whilst your meal is being prepared, has been adopted by another startup that is aiming to disrupt the humble lunchbreak.

The venture, called Allset, allows employees to browse a list of participating restaurants and pre-order their meal via an app, thus hopefully reducing the wait time and allowing the lunch hour to be utilized to the full.

The service is delivered via a free app, whereby users create a profile and plug-in the location of their office.  This then presents them with a range of nearby eateries, through which they can browse the menus and place their order.

Once you’ve selected your meal, the restaurants give you an expected time whereby the meal will be ready so you can go to there and simply sit down and eat.

“We’re creating a better way for busy people to have lunch. Our goal is to help people take a real break, save time, and enjoy the full restaurant experience. We partner with local restaurants to evolve their hospitality and bring busy people back inside for lunch,” the company says.

Suffice to say, the app was originally launched in the Bay Area, but it expanded into New York earlier this year.  Time will tell if it expands overseas.

Do you think it’s a service that would work in your own city?