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

[gokushrm@mastodon.social]

@cmconseils benefits of digital life .. Scam everywhere

[michaelmcwilliams@mas.to]

@cmconseils
I ate in a restaurant about a year ago that had a QR code to scan to see the menu on your phone. Trouble is my phone would not scan their QR code for some reason. They had no printed menus and did not know the web address that the QR code was supposed to send me. Technology fail.

[castrillo@mastodon.online]

@cmconseils haha I didnt think about it but yes we does, 🫠

[sloanlance@mastodon.social]

@cmconseils
Agreed. If a restaurant's menu is ONLY available via QR code, that means they didn't want to bother cleaning their menus. If they can't be bothered to do THAT, what ELSE are they not cleaning?

However, if restaurants offer physical menus with an OPTION to see a digital menu via QR code, I appreciate that. Those can be updated easily, be better to read, and cleaner. I don't completely trust restaurants or their previous visitors.

[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.