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QR codes for restaurant menus: threat or menace?
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TimFox:
I agree.  I don't mind when modern high-tech trendy solutions are added that are convenient for many people who wish to use them.
However, when spending my own money I prefer straightforward solutions that do not depend on my purchasing or carrying expensive equipment with me.
The reason I posted the original article is that I think most people don't realize the possibilities of what seems like a simple document access through a smart phone.
Zero999:
A lot of the advantages of not having paper menus can be accomplished, without phones and the Internet. The menu can be displayed on screens around the restaurant, as has been the case in fast food places for a long time. Heck, I even remember pubs often used to write the menu on a blackboard and still often do that for one day specials, which aren't on the printed menus.
SiliconWizard:

--- Quote from: Ranayna on July 28, 2021, 07:43:01 pm ---But call me old fashioned: A restaurant without the ability to order offline would be one i would not visit.

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Well, one of the points of going to a restaurant is human interaction. It's not just about the food. Otherwise you just order the same food and eat at home or anywhere you like.
So it's not just about being old fashioned: it's about changing restaurants into automated canteens. Whether you find this progress or not is up to you.
TimFox:
An important point about the modern QR-code apps is that they are used to place the order and pay the bill, not just to read the menu.  (Disintermediation?)
Old-fashioned posted menus are great, so long as they are readable, especially for places that have daily specials or changing menus.  Well-designed screens are a suitable modern equivalent to slates.
When I was a lad, New York City had the Horn and Hardart "Automats" for cafeteria-style fast-food dining, where the plated items were behind small glass doors activated (vertically) by dropping coins into the slot (back when coins could still buy food in the US).  Behind the doors were the cooks who prepared the food and loaded the little chambers.  One comedian referred to a deceased friend, who didn't realize you were supposed to remove the food before eating, and suffered a broken neck when the door fell down.   The fictional composer PDQ Bach wrote a concerto for horn and hardart.  But I digress...
tszaboo:

--- Quote from: Ranayna on July 28, 2021, 07:43:01 pm ---
You can even change prices depending on the user's device.
You can gather a lot of information about the user, especially if the user has to use an app

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Oh, I like that. So they could increase the price based on the purchase power of the user.
Kinda like, when you asked for a menu in a foreign language, the prices printed on it are inflated. Or the exchange rate is 10% worse. And now we can all do that digitally. You can outsource all these chores to a firm, specializing in exploiting people for their money, using big data and borderline illegal practices.
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