Dear restaurant owners:We ALL hate the QR code menu.
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@cmconseils The cost of a cheap inkjet printer and some no-name inks is probably less than your menu service.
What brand printer accepts no-name ink?
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@NickSchwanck @cmconseils I mean, that's kind of the system we've been stuck in. You wanted restaurants for convenience, but they screw you. So you give up the convenience to make your own, but the food sellers are Oh So Bad
. You can try growing your own, but you'll have to get the right seeds and then deal with all that, so you've gone from the convenience of just trying to get some food to spending months growing and tending a garden.It's better if you can do it, but not everyone as a whole can and they count on that.
I guess I just really miss back when people would put their collective foot as a society down against bad things. Now everyone just caves if there is the slightest inconvenience so this happens.
(And yeah, I do not have the answers on this. I sure wish that I did.)
@nazokiyoubinbou @NickSchwanck @cmconseils
I see this caving as childish. People need to fucking grow up. In the US, at least, I feel like I'm surrounded by middle schoolers busy pretending to be adults.
And calling them "middle school" is being generous.
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What brand printer accepts no-name ink?
@Uair Brother, with some obnoxious reminders from them.
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@nazokiyoubinbou @NickSchwanck @cmconseils
I see this caving as childish. People need to fucking grow up. In the US, at least, I feel like I'm surrounded by middle schoolers busy pretending to be adults.
And calling them "middle school" is being generous.
@Uair @NickSchwanck @cmconseils We live not in an apathetic society as one might think, but outright antipathetic.
I do find it ironic that people are taught to hate the concept of laziness in any form and to apply it to anyone they see as not working hard enough, yet they're actually the ones who avoid effort — even just the bare minimum — in anything where they can fight to avoid it. (Expending more effort to avoid effort. If that isn't laziness I don't know what is.)
I think the biggest problem of all is people really really do not like to think.
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@Uair Brother, with some obnoxious reminders from them.
Thank you! I didnae know that.
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Dear restaurant owners:
We ALL hate the QR code menu.
Stop.
-everyone@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
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@Uair @NickSchwanck @cmconseils We live not in an apathetic society as one might think, but outright antipathetic.
I do find it ironic that people are taught to hate the concept of laziness in any form and to apply it to anyone they see as not working hard enough, yet they're actually the ones who avoid effort — even just the bare minimum — in anything where they can fight to avoid it. (Expending more effort to avoid effort. If that isn't laziness I don't know what is.)
I think the biggest problem of all is people really really do not like to think.
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.
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Dear restaurant owners:
We ALL hate the QR code menu.
Stop.
-everyone@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.
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Dear restaurant owners:
We ALL hate the QR code menu.
Stop.
-everyone@cmconseils heh heh don’t travel to China
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@caboolture @cmconseils 'aus.social' Irony is dead now.
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Dear restaurant owners:
We ALL hate the QR code menu.
Stop.
-everyone@cmconseils I refuse to eat at a restaurant that makes me use my phone to see a menu. Just not gonna.
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Dear restaurant owners:
We ALL hate the QR code menu.
Stop.
-everyone@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.
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Dear restaurant owners:
We ALL hate the QR code menu.
Stop.
-everyone@cmconseils I make them get me a menu... saying that scams using QR codes are common, so will not scan them.
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Dear restaurant owners:
We ALL hate the QR code menu.
Stop.
-everyone@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?
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Dear restaurant owners:
We ALL hate the QR code menu.
Stop.
-everyone@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
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Dear restaurant owners:
We ALL hate the QR code menu.
Stop.
-everyone@cmconseils@mastodon.social especially in restaurants with poor cell reception (no I don't want to connect to your shady WiFi hotspot)
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Dear restaurant owners:
We ALL hate the QR code menu.
Stop.
-everyone@cmconseils dumbest shit ever
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@cmconseils Stick alternative QR codes over them and maybe they'll stop.
@lydiaconwell @cmconseils
️ A QR code that takes one to an alternative, more honest copy of the menu, with identical aesthetic. -
@otte_homan @lydiaconwell @cmconseils what you must never do is look online for people posting pictures from restaurants, and order fun drinks and snacks for them using the QR codes visible on the menus
@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.
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Dear restaurant owners:
We ALL hate the QR code menu.
Stop.
-everyone@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. 🤬
