QR codes
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I'm seeing this quite a lot now. My bigger beef is when you pay on their handheld machine and the waitress stands right there and says "It's going to ask you a question" and the three choices you're given is 18%, 20%, 22%....and if you choose "other" she knows it. Just awkward as hell.
Most just have you hover over it with the camera on your phone, and it provides a link to click.
I don’t mind them but wish they’d use it as an opportunity to show pics of the food so you know the style, breading, etc of what you’re getting me.
If you force me to download an app, I’m probably going to say no, you can read me ever option on your menu.
If you force me to download an app, I’m probably going to say no, you can read me ever option on your menu.
Have you left your house to eat at any point in the past 2 years before this trip? Just curious.
I get what you mean, but food photography easy. Getting a photo of the food that doesn't look like **** takes more skill than you'd think! It's not a big lift for a chain, but a lot harder for one-offs.
Fully understand. I just hate going to a place with my picky ass family and having to ask how the Mac & Cheese looks (noodle shape and cheese consistency and color) for the youngest, if the chicken strips are crunchy, lightly breaded, etc.... on and on and on.
Granted, I'd like better pictures than you see on every authentic local mexican restaurant's menu where it looks like vomit.
It is, but when you are stingy like me, your phone is already cluttered up with restaurant rewards apps...
Pretty much agree but also have to think this would be a legitimate pain for elderly customers. My parents are mid-70s, they both have phones but use them solely for calling and texting. They're going to be lost if they have to scan a QR code and download the menu on their tiny phone screen. Can't imagine they're alone.
Phones typically come with the app to read the QR codes anymore I believe. My samsung is 6 months old and i didnt have to download the app like previous phones. When they were first being used for marketing purposes, that was the major knock on them.
They were developed in Japan and what really makes them useful is they have the code imbedded 3 times so regardless of camera angle or if part of it gets ripped off/covered up, there is redundancy built in unlike traditional bar codes that if damaged, they wouldn't work.
Not to mention, in probably half the cases I've experienced, the menu size and font is formatted such, that I have to scroll side to side as well as up and down. Frustrating me right away is not a great way to entice me to spend money with you.
I must live under a rock or this is just a Metro thing. We go out quite often but mostly small towns and have never seen this. Can't say I'd be a big fan of it at all.
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"I only eat at diners made out of Jetstream trailers, that serve blue plate specials, from waitresses named Gertie and/or Mavis. The menus are laminated until they shine like a freshly waxed Chevy Bel Air and they never change. Coffee is a nickel and there's only two kinds: from the regular pot and the orange-ringed pot. They use the same fryer oil that they put in back when Eisenhower built the freeway system, and the only music allowed on the jukebox is the Everly Brothers or the Big Bopper; God rest his filthy soul."
