Word: menus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Each day several options on the lunch anddinner menus will be marked with a strawberryindicating they are part of the "Healthy Options"program...
Customers who returned today found a virtually empty room, bereft of tables and chairs. A salad bar and two blackboards with menus were the only indications that the locale had once been a restaurant which served a variety of soups, salads and sandwiches...
According to Michael Miller, Harvard Dining Hall Services' (HDHS) coordinator of production training and quality assurance, a computerized menu system forecasts student dining preferences based on the success of past menus. Not only does this promise a nutritionally well balanced meal, it also ensures that students won't suffer through three consecutive days of American Chop Suey...
Buttressing the desktop are dozens of subsidiary metaphors. Overlapping windows let users peer into different areas within the computer without having to stop what they are doing. Pull-down menus drop like window shades from the top of the screen, eliminating the need to look up commands in a manual. Elevator bars scroll long documents up and down; buttons and toggle switches pop up when there is a decision to be made...
...clear, however, that Apple significantly improved on Xerox's work. In Smalltalk, for example, all commands are executed through pop-up menus. On the Mac, users can reach right into cyberspace and manipulate documents directly, grabbing a file with a mouse, dragging it across the screen and dropping it into a folder or trash can. Much of the genius of the Mac -- its look and feel -- is in the accumulation of such details: the pinstripes across the top of a window; the gray tint in the scroll bar; the way an icon zooms to fill the screen when...