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

[uair@autistics.life]

@paulehoffman

Thank you! I didnae know that.

[harper@toot.cat]

@cmconseils this is why we'd rather travel to country pubs still.

The most recent pub/hotel we stayed at in Awabakal (Newcastle New South Wales Australia) still had a counter for ordering food (breakfast lunch and dinner), the pokies were out the back through the beer garden away from the rest of the venue, the sports tv's were in the front bar and the 'restaurant' side was its own seperate area too in the back bar... One of the best pub hotels we've stayed at

[uair@autistics.life]

@nazokiyoubinbou

It's been my experience that the vast majority of us simply walk around looking for ever-better choices to do their thinking for them. I can count on one hand how many people I've met who actually do their own thinking. Mostly they just regurgitate calibrated phrases put out by professional persuaders.

If I hear something like "Sleepy Joe" out of you, I write you off as an extension of someone else's mind and, sadly, someone who lopped off a big bit of their own humanity.

[mossyfoot@pdx.social]

@cmconseils I was willing to do this during the pandemic. Since then, I just leave if the restaurant forces me to order with some app. I have stopped going to several #Portland restaurants entirely who continue the practice.

[dulcemaria@toot.community]

@cmconseils heh heh don’t travel to China

[brad@1040ste.net]

@caboolture @cmconseils 'aus.social' Irony is dead now.

[mirishuli@mstdn.social]

@cmconseils I refuse to eat at a restaurant that makes me use my phone to see a menu. Just not gonna.

[foobarsoft@mastodon.social]

@cmconseils Why does no one use NFC tags? At least then you don’t have to fight the camera.

Still terrible compared to what has worked for… all time until recently.

[wolphin8@mastodon.social]

@cmconseils I make them get me a menu... saying that scams using QR codes are common, so will not scan them.

[timsk@mastodon.social]

@cmconseils there seem to be lots of people agreeing with you, but I don't dislike it, at least at the places I go.

FWIW I _can_ browse the menu without starting an order, and I have the option of going to the bar and ordering instead of I want to.

But they're not asking me to install Yet Another Goddam App, and I'm paying with the same bank card that I would use at the bar anyway so there's very little difference in terms of privacy. What's not to like?

[legit_spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al]

@cmconseils Dear everyone STOP Received your telegram STOP Instructions understood STOP Will replace QR code menu with bar code menu STOP Appreciate your patronage STOP Signed the Restaurants

[louis@social.louis-vallat.dev]

@cmconseils@mastodon.social especially in restaurants with poor cell reception (no I don't want to connect to your shady WiFi hotspot)

[blogdiva@mastodon.social]

@cmconseils dumbest shit ever

[hellomiakoda@pdx.social]

@lydiaconwell @cmconseils
️ A QR code that takes one to an alternative, more honest copy of the menu, with identical aesthetic.

[realglob@mastodon.social]

@mkoek @otte_homan @lydiaconwell @cmconseils wait a minute since most of them are static just take a picture of one and then wait for someone to sit there and then scan the code, join their menu, and put them into crippling debt. Funny pranks to do to your worst enemy.

[dukeduke@mastodon.social]

@cmconseils I've never even heard of such an abomination before now. I've also never scanned a QR code, so I guess I'd go hungry if faced with this as my only option. 🤬

[catmisgivings@stranger.social]

@hellomiakoda @lydiaconwell@todon.nl @cmconseils oh so THAT'S the "secret menu"!

[rodolforg@mastodon.online]

@cmconseils Oh, I thought this hate I share was Brasil only.

[catmisgivings@stranger.social]

@caboolture @cmconseils less hygenic! Phone screens are full of germs!

[caffeinatedbookdragon@nerdculture.de]

@cmconseils When we did our relaunch, my location had qr codes on stickers in the bowling area & concessions lobby. They worked fine for the kitchen, but the bar had no clue where the drinks were going or who ordered them, and if they wanted popcorn or cokes from the concessions, that never printed out anywhere. So we would have to get them to open up their order so we could see what they'd pay for, write it down, and go get it.

Our system was terrible; we hated it because we knew most were using it just to avoid tipping the bartender or us servers (and some folks don't tip anyway, so it was like "whatever"). The owners kept saying they were fixing them for months, but when the kids just started peeling the QR stickers off and playing with them, managers didn't replace them anymore & they all disappeared in a couple weeks. Nobody complained, not even the customers because they were tired of it taking twice as long to get their orders.