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

[hypostase@bsd.network]

@NudelnAlDente
At this point I'd almost be for "Okay, so where can you recommend?" and if that wasn't an option just get a glass of water.

[nudelnaldente@mstdn.social]

@hypostase Nope, fuck 'em. They lost the sale on a more expensive drink. The beer was fine, local & cheap.

[interpipes@thx.gg]

@NudelnAlDente it's certainly one choice to outsource your online presence to these vultures but surrendering your on premise menu to them is a new level of stupid to me

[raganwald@social.bau-ha.us]

@NudelnAlDente There was a nice small Korean fried chicken joint in my town. It had menus. It was close to the library, and I regularly lunched there. Last time I was there, the menus were gone, replaced by a QR code at the table. You get the menu *and* place your order with your device.

The joint is still there, but I'm not. No specific reason or rant, I guess it just felt like a harbinger of future enshittification. I should drive by and see if it has been replaced by a vending machine.

[beckaohnoes@mas.to]

@NudelnAlDente The second some place tells me to check their menu on... Fucking... Instagram? I walk out. Lmao. What the hell.

[rootschange@federate.social]

@NudelnAlDente ditto to non-profits and community organizations.

Instagram is not accessible and you’re leaving a huge portion of your community out. Those off Instagram might actually be better evangelists for you! But they can’t find you.

[sqlallfather@techhub.social]

@raganwald @NudelnAlDente

I stopped going to one of my favorite restaurants for the same reason. No thank you.

[kimlockhartga@beige.party]

@NudelnAlDente exactly! JFC. No physical menu? Are they that obtuse?

[sldrant@mastodon.social]

@NudelnAlDente @neil should really ask them to describe the entire menu, seeing as they can't actually provide you with a physical one... FFS

[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.