Dear restaurant owners:We ALL hate the QR code menu.

[maverick604@mastodon.social]

@cmconseils In SEA (Thailand, in particular) QR based menus are the norm & I f*cking hate it. Rarely a restaurant will have a printed menu. & most also require you to order & pay from your phone too.

I don’t really understand the *requirement* to force your customers to have a multiple hundred or even thousands of dollars piece of equipment, have it charged, have a mobile subscription for it, and bring it with them, just to be able to buy a $5 meal – especially in a “3rd world” country.

[alterelefant@mastodontech.de]

@cmconseils
When I order food online I expect delivery to my house, not delivery to a restaurant table.

[the_wub@mastodon.social]

@cmconseils QR codes on menus?

I should get out more often...

[replicajune@mas.to]

@grumpydad @cmconseils qr code for wifi are pretty neat

[kkarhan@c.im]

@lydiaconwell @RealGlob @mkoek @otte_homan @cmconseils

Kinda reminds me of the #Barcode to unlock the gates at the #SelfServiceCheckout at #REWE...

- I did test it (obviously I did pay for what I bought!) and it just worked.

https://chaos.social/@0x63/116365392273772810

#ImPrinzipSchonOffen

[lydiaconwell@todon.nl]

@catmisgivings @hellomiakoda @cmconseils A QR menu that describes the meals as they really are:

"A disappointing, dry endeavour, drowned in a sickly but otherwise tasteless sauce!"

[grumpydad@infosec.exchange]

@replicajune @cmconseils For a helpful reply, see the above diagram

[ppxl@social.tchncs.de]

@cmconseils especially those ones that point to a single Facebook page.

[cmconseils@mastodon.social]

@ppxl true

[erici@snac.sns.gdn]

@cmconseils@mastodon.social
Another malignancy that arose during covid...

[bellinghman@wandering.shop]

@ecoscore @lydiaconwell @cmconseils Are you trying to make it unreadable, or readable but with different data in it? Because QR Code is going to insist on much more than a handful of dots for the first, and a sizable proportion of all of them for the second. Just look at the pattern differences between adjacent tables

(Assuming the case where it includes your table number)

[kaleissin@wandering.shop]

@cmconseils I like ordering online but the menus they link to, to order from, are so unbelievably shitty and bad UX. Much better overview with the worn and bent cardboard rag.

[ache@social.lol]

@grumpydad @cmconseils @replicajune Yeah.
QR code should not be the primary way to access something.

Your menu should be a physical menu and the QR Code should help people access the digital version, not to force your digital version to the users.

If you have a printed poster with an URL, please put a small QR code next to it. Not to replace the URL, to complete it.

[bright_helpings@mspsocial.net]

@cmconseils I love the QR code menu! It's great for my access needs, especially when it lets me stay outside the restaurant and eat outdoors.

[marud@social.marud.fr]

@cmconseils le bar dans lequel on va avec les copaings a deux caractéristiques principales :
- il est dans un vieux bâtiment historique eb semi cave avec des murs ultra épais et donc 0 réseau mobile
- des QR code en guise de carte

le combo du siècle

[arclight@oldbytes.space]

@cmconseils The QR code menu is a techbro affordance and a full-scale rejection of the core hospitality function of a restaurant.

There are local restaurants with great food that I won't go back to because of this weird, sterile airport-kiosk style of "service". Disconcerting, offputting, and in all ways an inferior dining experience - a drive-thru is more welcoming and humane.

This is the sort of crap invented by software people who fundamentally do not understand the restaurant business and lack the basic socialization and humanity that we recognize as being completely absent in Mark Zuckerberg.

[quentin_ld@mastodon.social]

@lydiaconwell @cmconseils ultimate blackhat seo hack

[idotj@mastodon.online]

@print @cmconseils And you save paper printing all that menus every season (or when prices change).
Bonus: it detects my device/browser language and shows the menu in my language.

[nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social]

@kkarhan @NickSchwanck @cmconseils Eh, that won't protect you. For one thing, it was considered quite rude here not even that long ago. For another, there's a sort of slippery slope process where things like these start a bit at a time piece by piece until you eventually arrive at this stage. You've been lucky that it hasn't started yet, but that doesn't guarantee it won't...

[nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social]

@kkarhan @Uair

thinking is labourois and hard

(You meant laborious?)

All I can tell you is that when I lie awake some nights trying desperately to sleep, my brain is stuck on contemplating the meaning of life and our place in the universe. Rather than laborious, I can't get it to just shut up and quiet down for a bit.

I get it, I'm not normal, but I just struggle to accept that the average person truly struggles to think. I honestly believe, rather, they've been taught to think of it that way. It's like the way doing a task can feel more and more tedious and hard the more you really think about every single step of what you're doing while, conversely, you could do the task without thought and find it easy.

They want to do thinking without thought...

There's a good middle ground.