5 New Travel Startups Giving Rise to a New Era of Destination Dining


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There are some smart ideas happening with these startups but they and others looking to enter dining must remember that hospitality and personality, even more so than personalization, can never be abandoned.

[gallery ids="162383,162384,162385,162386,162387"] Choosing which restaurant to dine at each evening during a trip can be both a joy and struggle for travelers the world over. Travelers want to make dinner reservations on their smartphones, pay with their smartphones and leave a review of their meal with the same device. Many restaurants continue using antiquated technology that doesn't allow for one or any of these steps to happen, but this doesn't mean there aren't opportunities for startups to do some heavy lifting so that the technology is offloaded to their end. These five startups imagine a future where a waiter is removed from a meal, where menus