Went to a cocktail bar last night fully intending to order a cocktail.
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@NudelnAlDente exactly! JFC. No physical menu? Are they that obtuse?
@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.
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@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.
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@NudelnAlDente We don't want your paltry money, we want your data. All of it. Every minute of every day until you die.
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@NudelnAlDente We don't want your paltry money, we want your data. All of it. Every minute of every day until you die.
@epicdemiologist
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Went to a cocktail bar last night fully intending to order a cocktail.
Bartender: "We don't have a physical menu. You have to check us out on #Instagram to get the cocktail list."
I find them on Instagram only to discover that it's impossible to see their menu there when not logged in.
I. Don't. Have. An. Instagram. Account.
Me: "Yeah, I'll have a small beer, thanks." (at less than quarter of the price of a cocktail)
FFS businesses, stop getting captured by #Meta. It hurts your business.@NudelnAlDente They wouldn't have even got a beer out of me. B-bye...
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Went to a cocktail bar last night fully intending to order a cocktail.
Bartender: "We don't have a physical menu. You have to check us out on #Instagram to get the cocktail list."
I find them on Instagram only to discover that it's impossible to see their menu there when not logged in.
I. Don't. Have. An. Instagram. Account.
Me: "Yeah, I'll have a small beer, thanks." (at less than quarter of the price of a cocktail)
FFS businesses, stop getting captured by #Meta. It hurts your business.@NudelnAlDente I wouldn’t even have bothered to order a beer.
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Went to a cocktail bar last night fully intending to order a cocktail.
Bartender: "We don't have a physical menu. You have to check us out on #Instagram to get the cocktail list."
I find them on Instagram only to discover that it's impossible to see their menu there when not logged in.
I. Don't. Have. An. Instagram. Account.
Me: "Yeah, I'll have a small beer, thanks." (at less than quarter of the price of a cocktail)
FFS businesses, stop getting captured by #Meta. It hurts your business.@NudelnAlDente@mstdn.social jfc. if they're not gonna have a physical menu they can at least have a website???
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Went to a cocktail bar last night fully intending to order a cocktail.
Bartender: "We don't have a physical menu. You have to check us out on #Instagram to get the cocktail list."
I find them on Instagram only to discover that it's impossible to see their menu there when not logged in.
I. Don't. Have. An. Instagram. Account.
Me: "Yeah, I'll have a small beer, thanks." (at less than quarter of the price of a cocktail)
FFS businesses, stop getting captured by #Meta. It hurts your business.@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.
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Went to a cocktail bar last night fully intending to order a cocktail.
Bartender: "We don't have a physical menu. You have to check us out on #Instagram to get the cocktail list."
I find them on Instagram only to discover that it's impossible to see their menu there when not logged in.
I. Don't. Have. An. Instagram. Account.
Me: "Yeah, I'll have a small beer, thanks." (at less than quarter of the price of a cocktail)
FFS businesses, stop getting captured by #Meta. It hurts your business.@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.
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@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.
@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)
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Went to a cocktail bar last night fully intending to order a cocktail.
Bartender: "We don't have a physical menu. You have to check us out on #Instagram to get the cocktail list."
I find them on Instagram only to discover that it's impossible to see their menu there when not logged in.
I. Don't. Have. An. Instagram. Account.
Me: "Yeah, I'll have a small beer, thanks." (at less than quarter of the price of a cocktail)
FFS businesses, stop getting captured by #Meta. It hurts your business.We walk out of places that don't have real menus.
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Went to a cocktail bar last night fully intending to order a cocktail.
Bartender: "We don't have a physical menu. You have to check us out on #Instagram to get the cocktail list."
I find them on Instagram only to discover that it's impossible to see their menu there when not logged in.
I. Don't. Have. An. Instagram. Account.
Me: "Yeah, I'll have a small beer, thanks." (at less than quarter of the price of a cocktail)
FFS businesses, stop getting captured by #Meta. It hurts your business.@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. -
Went to a cocktail bar last night fully intending to order a cocktail.
Bartender: "We don't have a physical menu. You have to check us out on #Instagram to get the cocktail list."
I find them on Instagram only to discover that it's impossible to see their menu there when not logged in.
I. Don't. Have. An. Instagram. Account.
Me: "Yeah, I'll have a small beer, thanks." (at less than quarter of the price of a cocktail)
FFS businesses, stop getting captured by #Meta. It hurts your business.@NudelnAlDente this is the equivalent of a cocktail bar for everyone, speaking only Spanish in an English speaking neighborhood. Nope. Not for me. Bye.
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Went to a cocktail bar last night fully intending to order a cocktail.
Bartender: "We don't have a physical menu. You have to check us out on #Instagram to get the cocktail list."
I find them on Instagram only to discover that it's impossible to see their menu there when not logged in.
I. Don't. Have. An. Instagram. Account.
Me: "Yeah, I'll have a small beer, thanks." (at less than quarter of the price of a cocktail)
FFS businesses, stop getting captured by #Meta. It hurts your business.@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...
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@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.@CatDragon Yes!!!
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@NudelnAlDente this is the equivalent of a cocktail bar for everyone, speaking only Spanish in an English speaking neighborhood. Nope. Not for me. Bye.
@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.
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Went to a cocktail bar last night fully intending to order a cocktail.
Bartender: "We don't have a physical menu. You have to check us out on #Instagram to get the cocktail list."
I find them on Instagram only to discover that it's impossible to see their menu there when not logged in.
I. Don't. Have. An. Instagram. Account.
Me: "Yeah, I'll have a small beer, thanks." (at less than quarter of the price of a cocktail)
FFS businesses, stop getting captured by #Meta. It hurts your business.@NudelnAlDente OMG That is so stupid.
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Went to a cocktail bar last night fully intending to order a cocktail.
Bartender: "We don't have a physical menu. You have to check us out on #Instagram to get the cocktail list."
I find them on Instagram only to discover that it's impossible to see their menu there when not logged in.
I. Don't. Have. An. Instagram. Account.
Me: "Yeah, I'll have a small beer, thanks." (at less than quarter of the price of a cocktail)
FFS businesses, stop getting captured by #Meta. It hurts your business.@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.
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Went to a cocktail bar last night fully intending to order a cocktail.
Bartender: "We don't have a physical menu. You have to check us out on #Instagram to get the cocktail list."
I find them on Instagram only to discover that it's impossible to see their menu there when not logged in.
I. Don't. Have. An. Instagram. Account.
Me: "Yeah, I'll have a small beer, thanks." (at less than quarter of the price of a cocktail)
FFS businesses, stop getting captured by #Meta. It hurts your business.@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.
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@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.
@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.
