Went to a cocktail bar last night fully intending to order a cocktail.

[nudelnaldente@mstdn.social]

@sldrant @neil

[epicdemiologist@wandering.shop]

@NudelnAlDente This is so insane. Here locally we have a restaurant that requires you to give them your phone number to be put on a list for a table; and a gas station that requires their app to activate the gas pumps.

[nudelnaldente@mstdn.social]

@kimlockhartga I think it may be more a case of being self-consciously cool tbh. One of the bar staff also corrected one of our party on her pronunciation of a drink's name.

Honestly I would have just left & gone to a decent beer bar if not for the rest of the group I was with. I don't think I'll be going back.

[nudelnaldente@mstdn.social]

@epicdemiologist 🫠 something, something, just-take-my-money.gif

[epicdemiologist@wandering.shop]

@NudelnAlDente We don't want your paltry money, we want your data. All of it. Every minute of every day until you die.

[nudelnaldente@mstdn.social]

@epicdemiologist Annoying as hell.

[webidebi@mastodon.social]

@NudelnAlDente They wouldn't have even got a beer out of me. B-bye...

[sothawo@social.tchncs.de]

@NudelnAlDente I wouldn’t even have bothered to order a beer.

[kinsey@cyberpunk.gay]

@NudelnAlDente@mstdn.social jfc. if they're not gonna have a physical menu they can at least have a website???

[vulgalour@birdbutt.com]

@NudelnAlDente That's a wild business model. I wonder what the logic is behind that decision. You're supposed to remove any sort of friction between the customer and their money and this is very much the opposite of that.

I'm assuming they didn't even have a chalkboard of special cocktails at the bar to tempt customers with.

[realcainmosni@mastodon.me.uk]

@NudelnAlDente I would have been more direct, still: "Thanks, but I'll go somewhere else."

Thing is, it probably *doesn't* hurt their trade to any appreciable degree. The younger generations as a whole seem to have been normalised to everything needing an online account and 24/7 access to their life. If that's the target demographic, or the demographic that most sustains their business, the bar is not going to care one iota about outliers. THAT is the root of the problem.

[nudelnaldente@mstdn.social]

@vulgalour They did not. Presumably because no-one can Like & Subscribe a chalkboard. (or Boost & Follow, I don't know Instagram ‍️)

(Oh & before anyone replies. I don't care to learn)

[missgayle@urbanists.social]

@NudelnAlDente

We walk out of places that don't have real menus.

[catdragon@mastodon.world]

@NudelnAlDente yeah let me add in restaurants and businesses that use Facebook as their web site.
No, I am not going to go eat at your restaurant without seeing your menu first and also no fucking way in this world unless you were holding a gun to my dog’s head will I be going on Facebook for anything.

[progo@boop.city]

@NudelnAlDente this is the equivalent of a cocktail bar for everyone, speaking only Spanish in an English speaking neighborhood. Nope. Not for me. Bye.

[lenotaire@mastodon.social]

@NudelnAlDente I once went to a buffet restaurant where the dishes you wanted needed to be sent to a Whatsapp account. Did I not have (and still not) such an account, back then I did not even had a Whatsapp-capable phone. No other option than to leave unserved...

[nudelnaldente@mstdn.social]

@CatDragon Yes!!!

[nudelnaldente@mstdn.social]

@progo Given what we Anglophones have done to regions in Spain like the Costa del Sol, I'd be fine with speaking only Spanish in an English speaking neighbourhood.

But yeah, I get your point.

[lancejz@mastodon.social]

@NudelnAlDente OMG That is so stupid.

[hatter@metasocial.com]

@NudelnAlDente They were lucky to get the price of a small beer out of you. While I'd have asked the bartender for recommendations, or ordered something relatively well known, I'd also have shared some thought with them to pass on to their manager.