Abstract: An interactive restaurant communication system (10) provides integrated food and entertainment processing which enables restaurant patrons to obtain menus for individual food selection on a video monitor (56) at their tables, individually enter their orders into a table station "intelligent" terminal (12, 14, 16, 18, 20) at their tables, select from and interactively play a variety of remotely retrievable interactive entertainment activities using the video monitor (56) while waiting for the food to arrive, and if desired, where applicable, have the food and entertainment charges automatically added to a composite bill which may be printed at the table station terminal (12, 14, 16, 18, 20) or at a remote central location. The food and entertainment functions of the terminal (12, 14, 16, 18, 20) are down-line loaded from a central data base (22, 32) in response to terminal requests therefor.

Abstract: An information retrieval system for providing a retrievable updateable display of a permanent microfilm record comprises a gas panel display means capable of providing a composite visual display and microfilm record projection means capable of retrievably providing an image of a selected permanent microfilm record to the gas panel display means from a plurality of such permanent microfilm records. The composite visual display comprises a projection of the selected retrievable permanent microfilm record together with a substantially simultaneous gas panel display of retrievable updateable digital memory stored information which visually supplants predetermined portions of the selectably retrieved projected permanent microfilm record in the composite visual display. The system is controlled by a condition responsive process controller means.