The diner immediately receives a text back which they can then show to the waiting staff to receive said dough balls.
It's unclear whether it goes into the restaurant's general coffers, or is split among all staff or among waiting staff alone.
Patrons can browse through a menu on their table, or type text, with the help of that all-important infra-red sensor, with the information sent back to waiting staff.
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It's like walking into a scene from Goodfellas - the crowd seated at candlelit tables, suited-up waiting staff distributing Old Fashioneds, the band on stage playing whipsmart swing and jazz.
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It said if staff were waiting for guidance from a doctor or nurse, they could click back to a previous screen, "as this in essence stops the clock".
As of last October, there were 7, 472 offers in holding queues, waiting to be assigned a staff member.
The ten years since has seen greater investment, more staff, reduced waiting times, new hospitals and radically improved survival rates, particularly in cancer and cardio-vascular disease.
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Gerry Marr, from Tayside NHS, responded by explaining that following the publication of the Lothian report, a series of workshops took place with staff involved with waiting times management.
Those balloted included clerks, receptionists, medical secretaries, waiting list and call centre staff working at Dewsbury, Pinderfields and Pontefract hospitals as well as community clinics across the Wakefield district.
The independent report, commissioned by the Greater Manchester Strategic Health Authority, also said urgent action was needed to ensure all staff, including waiting list clerks were fully trained in compiling statistics.
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Mr Neil, who made a statement to the Scottish Parliament on the report, said an internal investigation at the health authority found no evidence of waiting time manipulation or coercion of staff.
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However, a senior manager told inspectors that agency chiefs were unaware that these cases were not being dealt with and staff could make decisions without waiting for new policy.
Mr Blair praised teachers and "dedicated NHS staff" and claimed that health waiting lists were falling.
The convener of Holyrood's audit committee said the head of the NHS in Scotland would be grilled about what he and his staff have done to improve patient waiting figures.
South West Wales AM for Plaid Cymru, Bethan Jenkins, mentioned hearing from staff at Morriston that 15 ambulances were waiting at the hospital for their patients to be admitted at one time.
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He added that the board's internal audit - which looked at a sample of statistics - found no evidence of "deliberate instructions" being given to members of staff regarding the "inappropriate use of waiting times codes".
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They had shaken hands and he had saluted and gone out to the staff car where the old man was waiting asleep and in that car they had ridden over the road past Guadarrama, the old man still asleep, and up the Navacerrada road to the Alpine Club hut where he, Robert Jordan, slept for three hours before they started.
Jane Brophy, of South Manchester Community Health Council, told the BBC staff were under pressure to meet league table and waiting list targets.
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Dr Dai Lloyd, Plaid Cymru AM for South Wales West, said cardiac staff in hospitals across south Wales had been working hard to reduce waiting lists.
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At Glenfield Hospital, in Leicester, staff were able to remove a three-week delay in breast cancer waiting times by re-designing their patient registration forms.
One young woman had been waiting for three hours and when she finally was able to retrieve her car the staff mistakenly switched her BMW with an Infiniti.
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Waiting lists are growing, as hospitals and clinics have not been able to recruit enough skilled staff to keep up with demand.
He said less money led to the risk of increased waiting times for services such as accident and emergency, and was putting additional pressures on his staff.
About 250 new theatre staff are to be recruited by NHS Lothian in an effort to tackle a backlog in operation waiting times.
She said the department had seen up to 13 patients waiting to be placed at one time, although all received triage support from a senior nurse and ambulance staff.
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