Just walk into the cafe and click once on the mouse for the menu. Click again to place the order. At Suyash, the e-atery on Pune’s Bajirao Road, computers wait on you — almost. Spread across 1,500 sq ft, the 48-seater vegetarian restaurant has computers on each table. All you need to do is use the mouse, choose from instructions in Marathi and English. The menu is elaborate — the recipes with ingredients, the price and the time it will take for the order to be delivered. Meanwhile, there’s plenty you can do from playing computer games, browsing through a map of the city, finding out what the stars have in store for you to getting the latest information on shares and making sure you have an update of the cultural calendar. Inaugurated on Thursday, the e-atery is the brainchild of Nandkishor Phadke who collaborated with his nephew Gajanan. ‘‘Patrons even have the option of getting a printout of a recipe at no extra cost,’’ says Gajanan. Pegged as an Indian fast-food restaurant, the menu offers sandwiches, pav bhaji, milkshakes and ice-creams with plans to introduce a thali, South Indian snacks and Maharashtrian items like pohe and thalipeeth. Headphones have been provided so you can tune in to angrezi masala or old Hindi numbers without disturbing fellow diners. The owners say the system is very user-friendly and ‘‘anyone from a seven-year-old to a 60-year-old can use it.’’
