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RoboCoonie
But the QR code was invented in 1994.
JarJarBinksKisser
Im 26. I know how to deal with QR codes. Just too lazy. I'd just fuckoff and leave.
AmandaDunne
I’d leave. My restaurant has QR codes and paper. But we attract a much older crowd who still rock flip phones. So QR codes are silly for us
DaNylz
Yeah 90% of german Restaurants started doing that after the first lockdown. Stop whining y'all.
DaisyDays86
Loved it when, on our UK trip, at the Wetherspoons, you could just order in the app and have minimum interaction with the staff
Canadiankittytitty
I had this happen to my parents and I. Litterally went to their website. Took longer than to search it. Good ol covid
BraveSlayer
I don't even own a phone. xD good thing I cook.
Extremefear
Create a QR code that leads to a google drive with the menu. That's how some are doing it.
nintyuk
Having to spend like 5 mins jumping through hoops to access the restaurants free WiFi before I can look at the menu was 'fun'
ThePlatypusHat
Best part is when they do this and don't even have WiFi. that's when I just leave
Stolf
So um....I don't own a smart phone :(
zaqx
Locopogo
Chloenflake
They could also enlarge/paint the menu on the wall. Some older people don't use cell phones much.
thechelonianshelmet
As I've got nerve damage I can't use mobiles, but I've given up restaurants as too many cunty fucks made me want to use cutlery differently.
RoseinWonderland
I hate those. My 3 year old phone doesn't have an integrated QR code scanner and I have to watch ads on a free app to see those menus.
silverwolf0
The problem is Android STILL hasn't made QR scanning a default function. Many older phones need a third party app. I dunno about iphone.
evilspyre
Iphone has one built in.
GTimgur
Mmmmmmmmmno
tenaka30
Me after a couple of mins on a QR generator: And there's my order.
DummPatz
Well maybe not the time to go to restaurants
ATerribleArtist
I remember reading somewhere that QR codes are a failed technology. Like, less than 1% of people have ever scanned one. I get sauce
wozat
Less than 1% of people have ever launched a ballistic missile...
SophieClockwise
Good to know. Junk them all.
cTrix
Good way to lose lots of customers.
CaptCrobar
I like it
papyel
I love these menu
skysailor93
I'm all for technology, but it's nice to have a break from it all. Sitting down with friends or family for a meal is one of those times.
GoliathSkittles
How is it any different than looking at a physical menu? Once you've ordered you put it down.
skysailor93
Phones are distracting. "Oh got a notification, someone texted me," etc. I'm not against it, but I wonder if it's really better.
GoliathSkittles
They are only distracting if you get distracted by them, just use it to look at the menu and then talk with your family.
GoliathSkittles
It's not technologies fault that people are shitty.
skysailor93
I wouldn't really they're shitty. As someone with ADHD, distractions are difficult. I wouldn't be upset or angry at a QR code menu, though.
SherMattLockSmith
Then put your phone away after you order....
skysailor93
Yeah but people can get distracted really easily, especially those of us with ADHD (me). Not super against it, but I wonder if it's better..
skylark28
So basically, if you don't have a smart phone, kindly fuck off?
fmlsuxD
Try living in this world without a bank account.
bloodydingo
Did you not see the meme? The future is now, old man.
StrangerNum1
That has been the rule since 2014
GeekBoyChrisOnlySometimes
They also have physical menus just in case.
birthdaybaboon
Time to whip out a notebook and get cracking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code#/media/File:QR_Character_Placement.svg
EvPointMaster
ok, cool. But then what do I do with the URL?
thelegendofthetwistednavigator
Do you also find it increasing difficult to find a new ribbon for your typewriter?
Cabronmalisimo
I don't have a sMaRt PhOnE, so, yes...
MykillMetal
Do they even sell other options anymore? I know my dad has had his flip fone forever but he got it on ebay lol
DoktorWyvern
You can still get new flipphones in stores.
EvPointMaster
Well, they now make smartf̶l̶i̶p̶ folding phones, soooo
hhrampion
Yeah it was fun teaching my mom how to read them. Her husband wanted to make a scene saying non of us had a phone to see what they would do
sweetnaivety
sounds like how my aunt and her husband would probably react lol
donutposse11337
He sounds fun
platypuspower
What's a man Karen?? Ken?? He's a Ken..
pflugerville
QR codes typically just give you a url thats stored in the code. They should just put the url under it.
SnakesAreAwesome
I just google qr reader and go to a web reader. Takes maybe 30 seconds and I don't need to download any apps.
SherMattLockSmith
I mean, you shouldn't need a reader app any more, my android scans QR codes automatically from the camera, IIRC my iphone did too...
confuselage
Also, Google Lens can read QR codes
VaardArk
But then you have to type it out. That’s just monstrous
bayesiancuttlefish
Barbaric, even.
Lichelf
Id rather go hungry than type out an entire url on a phone.
Edowyth
that's what url shorten-ers are for.
VaardArk
www.tinyu- “fuck this”
pflugerville
Then scan the QR code.
SteamingTheCat
I get it. It's weird much like all of 2020. But menus are the dirtiest things in restaurants. Just imagine them crawling with plague.
jedderrick
You can’t tell me what to do! Gimmie the plague menus!!!
Jaysus41
Restaurants around here are required to have disposable menus for the time being.
jp189512
My mom honestly thought it was the coolest thing ever when I paid for our meal with my phone
capefling
Laminate and clean them.
altmind
single use menus. like a printed sheet of paper.
LynzardQueen
What do you mean? The restaurants I worked for washed menu at least once a month whether they needed it or not.
anabobcatz
Fair point, but a laminated menu is easy to clean
BoofBoofPass
Yes, but restaurants arent exactly the kind of place to be eager to add new tasks that take time from production. Then again id assume 1/?
BoofBoofPass
production levels are almost definitely down, but, ya know, just sayin.
toboldlygowherenomanhasgonebefore
True ... but are you sure it was done?
Link01
Last year I would have scoffed at this but now I want it in every restaurant forever
TurkNJD
Yes, they are definitely gross, but as someone whos worked in food service......they are far from the dirtiest thing in a restaurant....
EKOasaripple
I do restaurant menus for a living - many in our area have to come with instructions on how to use them (lots of seniors)
flipismycat
If the menus aren't clean then you know to leave. If they can't bother cleaning them who knows what they aren't cleaning in the back.
cTrix
have you all not heard of lamination
dsraa11
Yes. Yes I've heard of lactation, and I agree.
SteamingTheCat
Illumination is great.
FirstPersonSingular
Yeah that you clean once a day with a dirty rag. I honestly find this a good change.
14November
Do you know much bacteria is on your phone tho
Radioactiv369
Yup
roskapoika
You don't share your phone with other customers, do you?
alcaray
I don't own a cell phone. I get no service?
Calihan87
Lots of people have old phones they can't sell and want to get rid of, if you want a phone for casual use. Not a solution, just an option
alcaray
I'm poor. Can't afford the service. No car, too.
Calihan87
IDK where you live but here in MN I can get texting only for $10, or all text and calls and 4gb of data for like $22 a mon
arkuamore
They probably have a paper, disposable menus as well.
capillano
If you don’t own a cell phone why would you be at a restaurant
alcaray
That's insulting.
capillano
To whom? If you can find someone who regularly goes to restaurants and doesn’t own a cellphone I’ll make a 20 min YouTube apology
alcaray
It's insulting to me who goes to restaurants about 2 times per year and has to save up for it. Don't want your damn apology.
goudist
I have a qr reader but I don't think I'd want to waste my battery on reading the menu of a place like that.
catamenia
Everywhere I've been still has menus for those without phones. It's just easier than sanitizing every menu in between tables.
Leeloothedog
I dont get it. used my phone to look at the menu at chilies last night. I have no idea how much battery it used because it was insignificant
yetAnotherIrrelevantUser
It's usually combined with the possibility to order online. And if the menu changes, the restaurant only needs to change it online once.
SherMattLockSmith
By "Place like that" do you mean a restaurant enacting COVID protections like not having every customer handle the same menus?
VaultGirl69
I dunno. It really depends on the food. But I get it. People don't like any inconvenience. Like masks. ?
CanadianEngineer
Proposal: they add phone chargers
neilwatkinsfromaccounting
Would you want to use some filthy public charger? I wouldn't touch that with your phone
Covidnineteen
Plebs and their phones. I use messenger bats
sweetnaivety
built-in wireless charging in the tables would work, my cousin has a table like that and it's super neat-o and disinfectable!
neilwatkinsfromaccounting
Maybe in the distant future
MissIWasntItching
OR YOU COULD JUST WRITE YOUR MENU ON THE SAME STUPID WALL.
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petrolhead1987
I was thinking the same thing, our local restaurant has it on a giant board written in chalk. Easy to read and update.
YeOldeImgurian
I guess if it links to a website you could update it, but then the customer also needs mobile internet or you to provide free wifi
petrolhead1987
You can update a chalk board faster than a web page.
DragoWhooves
but you can't have a page with allergy advice and several paragraphs about the history of the dish
jurassicmark
Maybe laminate it so it can be wiped clean.
SophieClockwise
Don't touch the wall.
nodyourhead
me looking at the large wall menu with pictures
iusedtodream
Ok, so the plus is: clean, nobody else has touched the menu; zoom; cons: it's strange, and we'll lose that bit o nostalgia.
sreav
Cons: you need a smartphone, you need a smartphone with battery, you need a smartphone that can have the qr-code-reading app, you accept...
sreav
...to give your data, you can be tracked back to a place&time, plus risks of other data from your phone being accessed etc.
LactaidOverDose
My phone is usually at 20% by the time I roll into a restaurant for dinner. I wouldn’t be too thrilled to see this
backrideup9
Con : potential unwanted data miner built into website hosting the menu. Your nudes are now in the public domain.
clonvermin
Is that a real thing that can happen?
hadtodownvote1
Extremely slim chance. It would rely on a severe security vulnerability to do so. The realistic datamining it can do is tying your phone to>
hadtodownvote1
>having been at the location, using things like cookies and fingerprinting (browser version, screen size, etc) to identify it. Targetted ads
clonvermin
Very interesting, thanks for writing this out. I had never considered random QR codes being potentially dangerous.
malakim
I'm not opening unknown QR-Codes. Period. You have no control over what is behind that code.
Enoan
Con: People without smart phones can’t eat there now.
colourofair
Yeah but can we talk about the A+ aces fucken punctuation? Grad student?
2graves
It's also a pain in the ass, have to take out your phone at a restaurant, and uncivilized
chrisjohnson76
A billboard menu is clean too
Noob3rts
You will lose a huge chunk of your profit margin because many of the older people will have zero idea or care to learn these things.
Delta2Almanac
I don't like the codes because I am forced to allow google to use my camera lens and access my images. .. Despite the fact they already do
sweetnaivety
but they had backup paper menus... which means they can still give menus to those that need them, but can also get the benefits of a QR menu
JustAnotherLinkInTheChain
A bit o nostalgia? Talk about class warfare: to eat here you *need* a $900 pocket supercomputer. Also what happens when shit like that break
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sweetnaivety
but they had backup paper menus... which means they can still give menus to those that need them, but can also get the benefits of a QR menu
CaptainAsshat
What's super about it unless you're talking from a perspective of 10+ years ago?
MeekrabJones
Or even when the battery dies.
theoshadowfang
what the fuck are you talking about? my phone cost like an eighth of your amount, you don't need the latest, greatest phone for QR scanning
NecroNikolai13
So this place is owned by Blizzard ? "Do you guys not have phones ?"
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NecroNikolai13
I dunno I don't have a phone.
hamster4sale
They've gone mostly radio silent on it in the West. They showed it off about a year ago I think at a Chinese mobile game trade show 1/2
hamster4sale
and more recently they mentioned it in a state of Blizzard fireside chat.
JustAnotherLinkInTheChain
-s? Do you not get a menu? Fuck that.
LeJoop
Now imagine being a tourist without a local sim and a $10 charge per megabyte
NotLuckyDucky
There are phones for less than $100 that can scan the code. It’s more an attack on those who are out of date with tech like the elderly.
ql0u0lp
That's a vast overestimate, you can pick them up for less than $30 brand new.
NotLuckyDucky
Lol true
toboldlygowherenomanhasgonebefore
It's an attack by the fucking Corona Virus.
khrestyn
Or people that don't want to carry a phone around 24/7
NotLuckyDucky
Ergo “out of date with tech” out of date in this sense could also be applied to out of date with societal norms. Or out of touch.
khrestyn
or a woman that doesn't have pockets to put a phone in...