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[lsanderson]

The QR-Code Menu Is Being Shown the Door
A dining innovation that once looked like the future has worn out its welcome with many restaurateurs, customers and servers who say it takes the joy out of dining.
By AMELIA NIERENBERG

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Comments

[kevin_standlee]

I'm glad to hear that the QR-Code Menu may be on the way out. I've seen restaurants that don't even post their hours on their doors, just a QR code. I've written them off as "I don't plan to ever go there." Among other faults, such tactics say, "If you don't own a smartphone, we don't want your business," and Lisa does not own and does not plan to own a smartphone. Personally, I only have one because my Day Jobbe requires me to carry one. My own phone is just a telephone, mostly.

But! But! But wot about Australia?

[lsanderson]

They use them a lot more downunder to replace labor in restaurants, where they gotta pay real wages. Some places the QR code was the menu, the order placement, and you paid for what you ordered before you got it. That said, not my favorite bit of tech either. If I had my druthers, I'd druther they have both if they're QR inclined.