Dear restaurant owners:We ALL hate the QR code menu.
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Dear restaurant owners:
We ALL hate the QR code menu.
Stop.
-everyone@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
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Dear restaurant owners:
We ALL hate the QR code menu.
Stop.
-everyone@cmconseils the entirety of China food industry runs like this
edit: entire economy*
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@cmconseils except when they lead to a website that has pictures of the dishes
@kwramm @cmconseils these folks haven't seen Shanghai. I couldn't live without that shit anymore. I still order wrong stuff anyway
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Dear restaurant owners:
We ALL hate the QR code menu.
Stop.
-everyoneI am glad that we don't have this "QR Code menu" in India yet.
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Dear restaurant owners:
We ALL hate the QR code menu.
Stop.
-everyoneI'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.
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@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.
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Dear restaurant owners:
We ALL hate the QR code menu.
Stop.
-everyoneThe 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.
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Dear restaurant owners:
We ALL hate the QR code menu.
Stop.
-everyone@cmconseils Did you say "I want an app based menu"? /s
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@cmconseils I was at the airport on Friday and tried one of the QR code menus. Ended up giving up since it was a total failure of a website and went somewhere else.
@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.
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@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.Having paper is good. Normally the family pick off the paper and someone uses the QR to order
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@cmconseils What's real fun is the confusion you can cause by paying in cash.
@maccruiskeen Where you’re still allowed to do so. There’s no longer a requirement in the uk for retailers to accept cash payments. On the other hand there are places which only accept cash, which can also be a pain if you’re not expecting it. That reminds me, I need to go and find a cash machine, the thirty quid I took out months ago has run out
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I ate in a restaurant about a year ago that had a QR code to scan to see the menu on your phone. Trouble is my phone would not scan their QR code for some reason. They had no printed menus and did not know the web address that the QR code was supposed to send me. Technology fail.@MichaelMcWilliams
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Dear restaurant owners:
We ALL hate the QR code menu.
Stop.
-everyone@cmconseils I want a printed menu on the table. However if there’s no table service I also like to be able to order by phone from my table so that some scrote doesn’t nick my seat/jacket/bag while I’m ordering at the bar. The joys of eating out on your own
While we’re on the subject of menus 3.6, 9.5, 10 etc are not prices you trendy hipster pillocks, use a £ (or € $ ¥ as appropriate)
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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.
Booze shuts it up temporarily. It makes you stupid.
Weed makes you not care.
I have the same problem. Good luck!
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Booze shuts it up temporarily. It makes you stupid.
Weed makes you not care.
I have the same problem. Good luck!
@Uair I will do neither of those things. So far the best I've come up with is some games seem to help me find a less mentally active ground, but the best sorts for this are too rare for me sadly.
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@Uair I will do neither of those things. So far the best I've come up with is some games seem to help me find a less mentally active ground, but the best sorts for this are too rare for me sadly.
Good luck. Don't lose track of the fact that sleep deprivation fups your thinking. Personally, after three or so days I'm totally useless as a thinker.
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Good luck. Don't lose track of the fact that sleep deprivation fups your thinking. Personally, after three or so days I'm totally useless as a thinker.
@Uair I generally tolerate sleep deprivation well, but of course it doesn't mean I don't need enough sleep in general. Finding the right things to help is indeed very tricky and it's an ongoing process for me.
(And yes, I also know of reading, but I'm not really very good with reading boring things and interesting things tend to stimulate me instead. That's just an inb4 since someone will probably hop on and suggest it as if I've never heard the idea, lol.)
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@cmconseils Luckily I don't eat out anywhere where this is the case. Do the QR codes give them your phone # or any identifying info?
@entichahoosh @cmconseils not phone number, but they might be able to identify and track your device through either cookies or "browserprint". I don't know if EFF's panoptic tester webpage is still online, but that could tell you more.
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@cmconseils Stick alternative QR codes over them and maybe they'll stop.
@lydiaconwell @cmconseils you can color in random squares with a sharpie and break the codes...just sayin'
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@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.@MountainWizard @replicajune @grumpydad @cmconseils they could just put a short link to the relevant bit of their website instead.
