Everybody loves to dine outside and most of us have been to a restaurant as of date. But have you observed what happens when you go to a restaurant and have to wait for a table?
Usually the waiter takes down your name and calls you over when there is a table ready for you. But now technology is advancing. These days most well to do restaurants use restaurant pagers. |
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| Restaurant pagers are electronic devices that look like small plastic boxes, which the restaurant host/hostess hands over to you when they call out your name. The people are then free to roam about in the restaurant’s surrounding area. |
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| Whenever the pager starts glowing or starts vibrating it means that your table is ready and you can come over and have a seat. The hostess takes the pager back from you and you are led to your table.
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| A restaurant pager is quite similar to a radio that listens to one station most of the time. The transmitters broadcast signals at certain frequencies and most of the pagers have built-in receivers to tune to the same frequency as that of the transmitter.
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| The pagers are constantly listening to the transmitter as long as they are turned on. Each pager has a unique CAP code, which it understands. On receiving this CAP code, it alerts the pager user. |
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| There are several types of restaurant pagers like Beepers, Tone, Numeric, Alphanumeric, etc. They alert the customers in the restaurants accordingly on receiving a signal from the transmitter. |
