Sea-Tac Airport introduces mobile food ordering, gate delivery

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Seattle's Sea-Tac Airport is expanding its programs and helping to ease the stress of traveling with their latest technology: digital food ordering with gate delivery options.

OrderSEA, a mobile food ordering service, was recently introduced at the airport. The service allows passengers to order food from all over the airport, not just what’s immediately available at the concourse near them, and helps eliminate crowded lines and long line wait times. Food is delivered to the gates with help from a robot named Gita.

“Technology can make your airport experience more flexible and less stressful,” said Port of Seattle Commissioner Sam Cho. “OrderSEA means travelers can skip standing in a crowded line, the least fun and most stressful part of any trip.”

Currently, 16 restaurants are participating in the OrderSEA program. The list includes Trail Head BBQ & Bar, Rel’Lish Burger Lounge, McDonald’s, Pei Wei and more. Since the soft launch of the program, which occurred this summer, over 1,200 orders have been placed through OrderSEA. About 500 of those included gate delivery using Gita.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/seattle-s-sea-tac-airport-introduces-mobile-food-ordering-gate-delivery/ar-AAOjwyR

[Skittles]

1. that sounds like a good idea

why not

[rsdsharp]

2. I can beat that. I got fire department delivery at a Sea-Tac gate.

In 1991 I flew back from Hong Kong to Seattle (and on to Chicago) with a cold. I slept most of the twelve hour flight, and when we landed at Sea-Tac my ears were plugged so bad I was almost stone deaf.

We had an hour layover until our flight to Chicago. When the condition didn’t improve, I approached United to ask if it was safe for me to board another airplane with my ears in that condition. They said they’d check and get back to me. Instead, they called the paramedics. Suddenly, here was a fire department ambulance screaming across the tarmac, and two firemen climbing up to the jet way and coming into the boarding lounge while I tried to disappear.

They checked my heart, my lungs, my blood pressure, my temperature and what ever else they could think of while I tried to tell them it was my ears. Finally, they told me to go across the hall to the cafe, put a small amount of water into two cups, soak it up with napkins and then hold the cups up to my ears.

It took twenty minutes of holding two blue Maxwell House paper cups to my ears, and a lot of pointing and snickering by the other people waiting for the flight, but it worked, and I got to fly home. While chewing gum every mile of the way.