It is all it’s stacked up to be — a restaurant offering plenty of choices as well as the technology to fill your order quickly. Stacked in Fashion Valley offers a high-tech twist on classic American favorites — hamburgers, pizza, salads, and sausages. Customers order on an iPad at each table, choosing not just the burger (Angus beef, chicken, pulled pork, salmon, turkey, or veggie) but the type of bun, from brioche to a lettuce wrap, and a mind-boggling variety of toppings from Grey Poupon to peanut butter. Fried egg, jalapeños, roasted red pepper aioli, cranberry mayo? No problem. Your picks are just clicks away. If you simply can’t decide, Stacked offers pre-designed options. “The biggest challenge [for customers] is really making the choices, it’s not using the iPad,” says Paul Motenko, who, with Jerry Hennessy, opened Stacked and co-founded BJ’s Restaurants Inc. But the restaurant enables customers to save their favorites for the next time they come back.
Stacked has the backing of Steve and Cindy Leonard of Rancho Santa Fe, active as community philanthropists. They’re working on a way for customers to choose from a list of charities on their iPads, with Stacked donating a portion of dessert sales to benefit nonprofits. That makes the cookie sandwich (chocolate chip, oatmeal cranberry, peanut butter with Reese’s Pieces, Snickerdoodles) all the sweeter. (619/225-7900, www.stacked.com) ANDREA NAVERSEN
