For families who make memories at the table.

Traditions

Birthdays and the places you always go.

Every family has a birthday restaurant. Snap the table each year and the place page keeps every visit, while the moment page says which one this is — “Your 6th visit” — and what you had last time. Ten years from now you can scroll from the first birthday there to the latest.

• The birthday person picks the place, every year.
• The same dish every year, for a photo you can line up.
• A graduation dinner where the graduate orders first.
• The first-night-of-the-holiday meal, wherever you are.
• The rainy-day soup place.
• Sunday lunch, same table if you can get it.

Companions

A page for each person in the family.

Tag who was at the table and each person gets a page that fills itself in: times together, Your usual together, Your spots, Where it started. Grandpa Ruben’s page might say your usual together is roast duck, at the same place, for eleven years.

Give each person a picture from your library, one of their favourite saves, or just an initial. Nothing is shared with them and no contacts are read; the pages live on your phone.

Firsts

First tastes, kept.

Mia’s first bowl of ramen at six. The first time someone tried durian and the face that followed. Add a free tag like first taste and your tag wall collects every one of them. A note with their verdict, in their words, is worth more than any photo.

• What did they think it would taste like?
• What did they say after the first bite?
• Did they finish it?
• Would they order it again?

Looking back

“A year ago today.”

Each person’s page brings back what you were eating together on this date last year, and the Collections tab shows a memory from a year ago this week. With Premium, the Memory Lane widget puts past meals on your Home Screen, anniversaries first.

The year

A year of family dinners in one story.

Served turns each finished month, and then the year, into a short story made on the phone: the dish of the year, the places you went back to, who was at the table most, the biggest table of the year. It ends with a poster you can send to the family chat.

Practical

Tips for eating out with kids (and better memories).

• Go early. Half past five beats half past seven for everyone under ten.
• Let a kid take the table photo. They will want to, and it is a job that keeps hands busy.
• Order one shared new dish next to the safe ones. No pressure, just a taste.
• On the way home, ask everyone for their best bite. Type it into the note.
• Go back to the same place each year and line up the photos. Watch the kids grow next to the same plate of spaghetti.