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

[wolphin8@mastodon.social]

@cmconseils I make them get me a menu... saying that scams using QR codes are common, so will not scan them.

[timsk@mastodon.social]

@cmconseils there seem to be lots of people agreeing with you, but I don't dislike it, at least at the places I go.

FWIW I _can_ browse the menu without starting an order, and I have the option of going to the bar and ordering instead of I want to.

But they're not asking me to install Yet Another Goddam App, and I'm paying with the same bank card that I would use at the bar anyway so there's very little difference in terms of privacy. What's not to like?

[legit_spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al]

@cmconseils Dear everyone STOP Received your telegram STOP Instructions understood STOP Will replace QR code menu with bar code menu STOP Appreciate your patronage STOP Signed the Restaurants

[blogdiva@mastodon.social]

@cmconseils dumbest shit ever

[hellomiakoda@pdx.social]

@lydiaconwell @cmconseils
️ A QR code that takes one to an alternative, more honest copy of the menu, with identical aesthetic.

[realglob@mastodon.social]

@mkoek @otte_homan @lydiaconwell @cmconseils wait a minute since most of them are static just take a picture of one and then wait for someone to sit there and then scan the code, join their menu, and put them into crippling debt. Funny pranks to do to your worst enemy.

[dukeduke@mastodon.social]

@cmconseils I've never even heard of such an abomination before now. I've also never scanned a QR code, so I guess I'd go hungry if faced with this as my only option. 🤬

[catmisgivings@stranger.social]

@hellomiakoda @lydiaconwell@todon.nl @cmconseils oh so THAT'S the "secret menu"!

[rodolforg@mastodon.online]

@cmconseils Oh, I thought this hate I share was Brasil only.

[catmisgivings@stranger.social]

@caboolture @cmconseils less hygenic! Phone screens are full of germs!

[zetasyanthis@dragon.style]

@cmconseils I was at the airport on Friday and tried one of the QR code menus. Ended up giving up since it was a total failure of a website and went somewhere else.

[helenpdesigns@mstdn.plus]

@cmconseils agreed with that I hate trying to scan QR codes with my new expensive phone for some reason it seems to just take a photo rather than scan it properly

[culturednyc@mastodon.social]

@cmconseils

all of us

[felichsdakatze@mastodon.social]

@timsk @cmconseils

Living in a country where the dominant language is not my own, most often the codes open a webpage which I can easily translate, which is very useful when there are choices and options of the same dish.

As soon as a code takes me to an app install, suddenly my phone has "issues" and we go back to staff service.

[lrt_writes@mstdn.party]

@cmconseils not just the QR code menu, but also the one that must be downloaded to view...so annoying

[carstenfranke@mastodon.social]

@cmconseils the Walker Art Museum in Minneapolis took decisive action when their restaurant switched to qr codes

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/walker-cardamom-staff-qr-codes/

[print@theforkiverse.com]

@cmconseils

Nope. Best invention

Don't have to go line up and order/ pay at the counter. Particularly when you have kids unattended.

Can see pictures of the food

Can eat with another family and pay for just what YOU ordered.
(Friend love splitting bill 50/50 despite having wine and entrees and desert when we didn't)

Don't have to have a waiter keep coming over to see if you are ready to order, when you have not decided yet because too busy talking

Or having to wait for ages for a waiter

[spiegelmama@infosec.exchange]

@robot I would still rather have a bare URL. I'll type that in or navigate to it if you just tell me where it is. I will not be the one getting hijacked - no menu, no order from me.
@cmconseils

[roadskater@mastodon.social]

@DukeDuke @cmconseils It started becoming a thing during early Covid when restaurants were allowed to re-open, albeit at some limited capacity, perhaps entirely outdoors. Easier to tell people to scan the QR code than disinfect the menus between uses, I guess.

[asmaloney@fosstodon.org]

@Uair @cmconseils As a human without a mobile phone, I am starting to run into this... I walked away from an airport restaurant because they only had the QR thingy.

"I don't have a mobile, can you give me a real menu?"

They look at me like I'm an alien and shrug. "Nope". (I'm sure they had them, they were just being lazy.)

So I went to a different massively-overpriced restaurant!