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

[kkarhan@c.im]

@asmaloney @Uair @cmconseils If a restaurant can't be assed to put their menu on a shitty screen, chalkboard or elsewhere signposted then they certainly ain't worth the money they ask for.

All this #QRcode bullshit does is allow #pricing #discrimination and #Quishing
https://c.im/@kkarhan/116480051184201482

[rythur@mastodon.social]

@lydiaconwell @cmconseils

Call it:

Pornographic menu.

[kkarhan@c.im]

@cmconseils the only reason they do so is to make extra money with #DataBrokers and overcharge people with #PricingDiscrimination!

- Plus it puts every patron at rish of #Quishing and subsequent risks like #DataTheft & #malware!

TelH90 (@kkarhan@c.im)

@harrysentonbury@social.linux.pizza @lydiaconwell@todon.nl @cmconseils@mastodon.social that's actually a pretty common #scam: - #FakeShops using #Typosquatting-Domains! It's called #Quishing (#QRcode + #Phishing) Or as we say in #Germany: "Get #Klöckner'd!" (aka. get #phished!)… https://taz.de/Angriff-via-Signal/!6174144/ #Phishing #ITsec #InfoSec #OpSec #ComSec #QRcodes #Enshittification

C.IM (c.im)

[grumpydad@infosec.exchange]

@cmconseils (given the amount of attention this is given, I should mention it's taken from reddit somewhere)

[simonserghini@defcon.social]

@cmconseils
I make them for my clients, i know better, it’s not the QRs, it s the fucking client telling me how to center a div .. I can’t do it i know but gemini can.
so
Dear restaurant owners: let the IT guys do their thing. WTF?

[wizzkidd@mastodon.social]

@cmconseils Amen!

[tagyourtoe@mastodon.social]

@techsepp @cmconseils

[gokushrm@mastodon.social]

@cmconseils benefits of digital life .. Scam everywhere

[alsvha@sunny.garden]

@grumpydad @cmconseils was at the dentist yesterday and you had to scan qr to get to website to register parking.
Annoying but not too problematic for many, until an elderly man whom hardly even understood phone cameras. Luckily the staff was friendly but still it just shows needless problematic the process is.
These processes should never exists. There's no need for them. If they truly need to control parking that way, a cheap tablet in reception already hooked into the website would work just as fine. I hate tech more and more each day.

[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...

[ente_bullitt@ruhr.social]

@grumpydad

@cmconseils

[alterelefant@mastodontech.de]

@entichahoosh
The QR code is usually a lazy way to direct you to the menu on the website. In some cases you can actually place an order via this website.

Unless you provide extra information or worse install a new app and allow it to access everything, the restaurant will not know your name or phone number.
@cmconseils

[alterelefant@mastodontech.de]

@caboolture
A printed menu is physically larger than the screen of my smartphone and therefore much easier to navigate.
@cmconseils

[alterelefant@mastodontech.de]

@louis
Especially in busy places neither will work.
@cmconseils

[alterelefant@mastodontech.de]

@timrichards
Exactly. When you choose to eat at a restaurant you just want to put the phones away.
@cmconseils @TheBreadmonkey