@mur2501
In 20 years this becomes standard for fastfood chains as they display advertisements on the table. Some of the most modern ones then will allow customers to earn coupons or free food for clicking on adverts or filling out information at the table.

Viruses and other malware occur a few years later.

A ongoing rash of people get blackmailed and DOXXED due to hacked tables that record or stream individuals eating and their mistakenly-assumed private conversations.

5years later fastfood places start doing away with behind the counter menus altogether.

10-15 years later, this causes a new trend of 'upscale' establishments to avoid such tech at their tables- as the wealthier patrons value their privacy more than their choice of venue. This is fueled with a distrust for waiters as a recent rash of blackmail crime occured because of opportunistic hacktivists posed as waiters to get dirt in corporate and political leaders.

And the world has then gone full-circle.

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