Because you weren’t already getting enough news from your TV/radio/computer/phone/electronic highway billboards (and occasionally newspapers and magazines), someone has come up with yet another way to provide you with the latest headlines — your restaurant receipt.

Washington, D.C., eatery Old Ebbit Grill has become a test case for a program that would give diners a slip of paper, in addition to their restaurant bill, full of the latest stories from the Associated Press.

The idea is apparently to “leverage thousands of existing restaurant printers as a new worldwide printing press,” according to this press release about the not-at-all-silly-or-wasteful idea.

Of course, it’s also about making money through ads that would go on the soon-to-be-completely-disregarded-and-discarded slip of “Latest News.”

Not surprisingly, the first company to try advertising in this format is Domtar, a biggie in the paper industry, which hopes to promote the use of paper because no one really likes trees anyway, right?

[via Eater.com]

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