
Lovelorn video gamers who are better with consoles than conversation, have a new venue–a restaurant where each table has touchscreens for ordering food and for playing a variety of social games. Entrepreneur Nolan Bushnell, founder of the original Atari game company and the children’s U.S. restaurant franchise Chuck E. Cheese, has set up uWink in a shopping mall in Woodland Hills, a Los Angeles suburb, to attract an adult dating set. Each table at uWink has a pair of touchscreens for ordering food and playing conversation-fueling trivia games covering everything from entertainment to politics and sports. The library at uWink, which opened in October this year, already has more than two years of game content, including more than 45,000 questions that update weekly.