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

[spiegelmama@infosec.exchange]

@robot I would still rather have a bare URL. I'll type that in or navigate to it if you just tell me where it is. I will not be the one getting hijacked - no menu, no order from me.
@cmconseils

[roadskater@mastodon.social]

@DukeDuke @cmconseils It started becoming a thing during early Covid when restaurants were allowed to re-open, albeit at some limited capacity, perhaps entirely outdoors. Easier to tell people to scan the QR code than disinfect the menus between uses, I guess.

[robot@wetdry.world]

@spiegelmama @cmconseils I often use a dedicated barcode app for qr codes, so I can preview and save the link for later (it has a history page) and it shows up in my share sheet.

QR hijacking, while possible is overblown imo

I do not like link shorteners on qr codes tho, those go in the bin (metaphorically)

[asmaloney@fosstodon.org]

@Uair @cmconseils As a human without a mobile phone, I am starting to run into this... I walked away from an airport restaurant because they only had the QR thingy.

"I don't have a mobile, can you give me a real menu?"

They look at me like I'm an alien and shrug. "Nope". (I'm sure they had them, they were just being lazy.)

So I went to a different massively-overpriced restaurant!

[vp9kf@mastodon.social]

@cmconseils Especially at USA airports when changing planes. Credit cards here are scary and especially when forced to order by QR. We had decided to never use a credit card at an airport after a place at ATL did a rip-off attempt.

[hexaheximal@mstdn.social]

@cmconseils What annoys me the most is when people print/display QR codes without even providing the link as text alongside it. I always point that out when I see it.

[maccruiskeen@social.linux.pizza]

@cmconseils What's real fun is the confusion you can cause by paying in cash.

[whatzaname@mstdn.social]

@cmconseils i just request a menu. And wait. If it takes longer, it takes longer. Capitalism requires compliance to maximize profits. We wouldn't want anything to happen to their profits though, would we.

[mokhtarstork@zirk.us]

@cmconseils I refuse to fill up one... and get them to do it.

[qgustavor@urusai.social]

@cmconseils I don't hate. I hate when it's the main option or, worse, the only option.

Some restaurants put better photos of their food on the website rather than in the print menu. And I'm biased, I develop websites.

[spiegelmama@infosec.exchange]

@robot Physical menu hijacking is impossible, though. Why would I ever prefer to take out my phone at the beginning of the meal so I could view a menu on a tiny screen instead of on a piece of paper or on a menu board?

Also, the filthy public (kidding, mostly) has access to a surprising amount of café QR menus here. I don't want someone's crappy lifestyle store to invade my phone.
@cmconseils

[disorderlyf@todon.eu]

@cmconseils The temptation to leave a piece of paper with a QR code on a table at a restaurant that stops just shy of being actual malware if any of them ever tell me to fuck off for wanting a paper menu. The whole reason people reluctantly agreed to QR codes was because we thought we could get COVID from touching a menu but somehow didn't put two and two together for eating inside a restaurant. Now that nobody gives a shit even in the face of a potential pandemic from a disease that actually does stick to surfaces and in the air long enough for that to be a concern, it's all the downsides without the benefit of performative sanitisation and courtesy.

[robot@wetdry.world]

@spiegelmama @cmconseils honestly I think they are nice for the situ where the waitstaff has taken all your menus already and you want to check it again without having to wait for them to come around and ask for a menu again, or you are outside the restaurant/waiting to be seated and want to check the menu without having to figure out the website URL is and where the menu page is. That's why I said "as an option", I think a physical menu has to exist as a base, even if you have to ask for it.

The QR code *only* ordering/menus people are mentioning elsewhere in the thread sound horrible.

[wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org]

@cmconseils I am glad I am not the only one who feels this way.

[kwramm@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@cmconseils except when they lead to a website that has pictures of the dishes

[nuintari@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@cmconseils If I could boost this a dozen or more times a day, I would.

I walk out of QR code menu resturants.

[antdude@mastodon.social]

@cmconseils not just restaurants

[techsepp@social.tchncs.de]

@cmconseils Nope. I like it. Can order when I’m ready. Don’t have to wait/signal waiter for when I finally get my bill and can leave at my own terms. And don’t get judged for what I order or don’t order. Find the conventional restaurant setting always a bit prisonesque - from the moment you sit down you are at their mercy. Not with the QR codes.

[psoul@sfba.social]

@cmconseils I’ll be the voice of dissent here but I don’t really see the problem.

I just wish that:
- An digital menu always showed the prices
- restaurants with bad cell service would not have a QR code as a link but a QR code as the actual menu encrypted in the code
- FUCKING TAX AND TIP WOULD BE INCLUDED in all the prices
- No junk fees
- again, I’m sorry, but fuck your tip. I’ll pay it. not from the bottom of my heart but because I know that you don’t make a living wage and we’re in this situation because it’s social construct.

[beachbum@mastodon.sdf.org]

@cmconseils True that. I don’t go out to eat place my own order either. Next thing they’ll want us to go back in the kitchen and do our own dishes.