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

[marud@social.marud.fr]

@cmconseils le bar dans lequel on va avec les copaings a deux caractéristiques principales :
- il est dans un vieux bâtiment historique eb semi cave avec des murs ultra épais et donc 0 réseau mobile
- des QR code en guise de carte

le combo du siècle

[arclight@oldbytes.space]

@cmconseils The QR code menu is a techbro affordance and a full-scale rejection of the core hospitality function of a restaurant.

There are local restaurants with great food that I won't go back to because of this weird, sterile airport-kiosk style of "service". Disconcerting, offputting, and in all ways an inferior dining experience - a drive-thru is more welcoming and humane.

This is the sort of crap invented by software people who fundamentally do not understand the restaurant business and lack the basic socialization and humanity that we recognize as being completely absent in Mark Zuckerberg.

[quentin_ld@mastodon.social]

@lydiaconwell @cmconseils ultimate blackhat seo hack

[idotj@mastodon.online]

@print @cmconseils And you save paper printing all that menus every season (or when prices change).
Bonus: it detects my device/browser language and shows the menu in my language.

[nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social]

@kkarhan @NickSchwanck @cmconseils Eh, that won't protect you. For one thing, it was considered quite rude here not even that long ago. For another, there's a sort of slippery slope process where things like these start a bit at a time piece by piece until you eventually arrive at this stage. You've been lucky that it hasn't started yet, but that doesn't guarantee it won't...

[nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social]

@kkarhan @Uair

thinking is labourois and hard

(You meant laborious?)

All I can tell you is that when I lie awake some nights trying desperately to sleep, my brain is stuck on contemplating the meaning of life and our place in the universe. Rather than laborious, I can't get it to just shut up and quiet down for a bit.

I get it, I'm not normal, but I just struggle to accept that the average person truly struggles to think. I honestly believe, rather, they've been taught to think of it that way. It's like the way doing a task can feel more and more tedious and hard the more you really think about every single step of what you're doing while, conversely, you could do the task without thought and find it easy.

They want to do thinking without thought...

There's a good middle ground.

[dervishpi@mastodon.social]

@cmconseils Given the amount of time seemingly poured into interactions with phones, our family has chosen to use the oldest, cheapest phone available. It has a camera, but we've never used it. It has internet access, but we've locked that away and delete any apps that use it. It's an emergency contact device, not a primary interface for us.
So, yeah, QR-only anything means I can't use it. It may not be the best choice, but we will stick to it as long as possible.

[diffrentcolours@tech.lgbt]

@cmconseils Nope. I prefer it. Much easier than having to fiddle around with unwieldy pieces of paper or card with tiny fonts and poor contrast, remember what everybody wants, walk over to the bar, get asked a bunch of questions that mean you have to go back to your table to relay them to your party, go back to the bar again, pray that nothing gets lost in this complex communication path.

Plus it usually keeps me outdoors which is great because #CovidIsNotOver.

[nzbarry@mastodon.nz]

@cmconseils They do have one good use - they can be linked to a translator app, which I find very useful when travelling into foreign climes.

[mountainwizard@metalhead.club]

@replicajune @grumpydad @cmconseils
I also like qr codes at the Museum so i can read the description of the thing i am looking at on my phone, or even listen to it as an audio guide.

[diffrentcolours@tech.lgbt]

@entichahoosh @cmconseils There's no way a QR code can do that. It's just a pictorial representation of a URL. Decent QR scanner software will show you exactly what that URL is before you open it.

[kittyboy77@tech.lgbt]

@cmconseils I find them massively helpful in dealing with remembering what everyone wanted, the inevitable incidents of something being unavailable and not having to worry about losing my table or my stuff if I'm on my own somewhere

[splinux@mastodon.uno]

@cmconseils the entirety of China food industry runs like this

edit: entire economy*

[splinux@mastodon.uno]

@kwramm @cmconseils these folks haven't seen Shanghai. I couldn't live without that shit anymore. I still order wrong stuff anyway

[danish_akhtar7@mastodon.social]

@cmconseils

I am glad that we don't have this "QR Code menu" in India yet.

[billyjoebowers@mastodon.online]

@cmconseils

I've only seen that once. I told them I didn't have a phone, with the phone sitting right there in my shirt pocket, and had them read me the whole menu.

[oscherler@tooting.ch]

@caboolture For one thing, as a tourist, I don’t necessary have mobile data, and if I have, it’s usually limited and expensive, not meant to download 150 MB of JS and 12 Mpx photos of fantasy dishes that don’t look anything like what I’m going to be served.
@cmconseils

[billyjoebowers@mastodon.online]

@cmconseils

The responses to this seem to vary a bit by country. I'm having trouble understanding the "remembering what everyone wants" and "I can eat outside" comments.

[mms@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@cmconseils Did you say "I want an app based menu"? /s

[splinux@mastodon.uno]

@zetasyanthis @cmconseils it's because one should not get to a website. We have smartphones, not Desktops. It's not 1995. It's not http we need. There should be a broad sub App ecosystem like in WeChat or AlyPay. They create an intermediary to share payment and order informations and the one-stop App runs the whole X economy. The case of China shows even with 5th grade literacy it works.