6 apps that will help streamline your restaurant’s operations6 apps that will help streamline your restaurant’s operations

The iPhone was unleashed onto the world just over 10 years ago, on June 29, 2007, and since then, the way that consumers interact with each other, and with restaurants, has been transformed.

As handheld devices have proliferated, the world has been put at people’s fingertips: Whether they want to watch a movie, play a game, learn something or order food, as the old iPhone ad said, “There’s an app for that.”

At Blount Fine Foods’ recent biannual Culinary Summit in Newport, R.I., Nation’s Restaurant News and Restaurant Hospitality Senior Food Editor Bret Thorn stepped out of his usual culinary box to explore how these mobile-device-based computer programs are benefiting restaurants.

Many large restaurant chains have their own apps, something...