Running the chaotic atmosphere of a restaurant kitchen, managing a staff of several salary hungry employees, or even running the door of a five star fine dining establishment, these are my ultimate career goals! So how does a restaurant operations and management major need technology? After talking to my restaurant management professor, Jane Moody, my beginning expectation of basically never having to work with high paced technology was shattered. Moody explained the new technology of table check. A new innovation that allows the restaurant to see how many tables are seated, who had ordered, which tables are dirty, and how many are clean. By wanting to eventually open my own restaurants and operate them successfully, she stressed that I must become extremely familiar with this new system. Not only did she stress the importance of the table check, I also came to find that there were other technologies that I needed to learn. Accounting programs like Excel are found very commonly in business including the restaurant industry, scheduling systems that allow employees to clock in and out, and also programs that allowed tipping and orders to be placed. Although you would never think that you would find the advanced technologies that you may find in a lab or government office in a restaurant, I learned my knowledge in the technological world is key for a successful career.