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

[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.

[earwigplanet@mastodon.social]

@NudelnAlDente I don't get hired if I don't have an Instagram, so I keep it around with all my handful of followers who can't see my posts anymore just because venues have this idea that you HAVE to be there.

[heafnerj@mstdn.social]

@raganwald @NudelnAlDente A local family run Mexican place with great food provides the option of paying with a QR code. I tried it and somewhere in the process a hidden app (forgot the name at the moment) was silently downloaded and installed on my iPhone without my knowledge or consent. Nope. I still eat there but only pay with credit card or cash.

[aburka@hachyderm.io]

@NudelnAlDente dumbest trend ever, why would you want everyone in your bar to be looking down at their phones

[cppguy@infosec.space]

@rootschange @NudelnAlDente

My phone is configured to block all Meta hosts, so Instagram is a 404 for me. If I can't buy from you or work with you without disabling Blokada, I'm walking away.

[courtcan@mastodon.social]

@NudelnAlDente That would be enough to make me turn around and walk out -- after telling them exactly why I'm doing so.

[vgoller@nrw.social]

@NudelnAlDente don’t worry. They either go bust or are a good place NOT to be, a honeypot for influencer and wannabe insta-fames. You don’t want to hang out with these anyway

[jranft@mastodon.social]

@NudelnAlDente Yes. So stupid. They should just show you a screenshot of the menu on their phone at least.

[vrtxd@piipitin.fi]

@NudelnAlDente
– Oh okay, but the account is free and very easy to create!
– Cool, in that case please create a throwaway account so I can throw money at you.

[heckinchonker@mastodon.social]

@NudelnAlDente There was an ice cream place that sold ice cream shakes near me. The menu was animated, and would only show the shake ingredients for a couple seconds before cycling. The server explained that I could just ask and she could tell me what was in each, and I really tried but my brain just could not process what the options were.