Imagine the elderly who don't even know what a qr code is, spent 5 whole minutes trying to explain it to my grandma. This will suck especially for people that didn't even bring a phone or doesn't got camera or anything, just Over all stupid
I hate that QR code shit so much.
Last month I was doing a DC Smithsonian museum binge on the weekends. Got to the African Art musem (not to be confused with African American History museum), and instead of descriptions of everything just displayed they had it in all QR codes. Fucking why? Just put a damn sign up. I usually read a good portion at museums, but couldn't be bothered with QR codes so got through pretty quick.
Nahhh there is no way that actually happened, wtf literally whenever I come across one I leave like hell no (especially when they don't even got wifi too put it into google). At a museum is like outrageous the whole point is too read a little description and shit like that's actually crazy
Unfortunately it was there. I wish it wasn't. Some of the stuff I legit wanted to know about, but I'm not gonna stand around and scan a ton of QR codes to read it on my phone when there's a perfectly good spot on that sign.
Yea like imagin walking into a room and everyone's on there phones and your like ' what the actual fuck ' they are being cheap asf not everything gotta be digitized
Probably, but not a lot of people in there when I went, and of those that were, I didn't see anyone scanning any QR codes, they probably felt the same way.
There are some advantages on QR codes, like you can update stuff without having to print new signs. And for restaurants it’s cool to have the option to order over it and directly pay with Apple Pay maybe. But it should be an option, not mandatory.
I'd say the ones where you use the QR code to order is good when you're out with friends and don't want to deal with splitting the check. You just order your own food separately on your own phones.
Not to mention someone can scan and then use google translate to get it in their first language (image scan translate is janky).
Then there are people who use screen readers and other assistive devices. Linking to properly laid out pages is more inclusive than print in one language.
**"HOW DO I OPEN THE CAMERA? THESE DANG THINGS ALWAYS GIVE ME SO MUCH TROUBLE, NO GOOD SLAB OF GARBAGE"**
"Alright grandma, lemme take a look- grandma this is the TV remote do you even have your phone?"
**"WHAAAAT? YOU NEED TO SPEAK UP I DONT HAVE MY HEARING AIDS IN"**
"YOU'RE USING THE TV REMOTE GRANDMA"
**"NO, I DONT WANT TO WATCH TV, I WANT TO ORDER FOOD. WHAT ARE YOU, STUPID? I TOLD YOUR MOTHER NOT TO LET YOU WATCH THAT SPONGEBOB CARTOON GROWING UP AND NOW LOOK WHAT HAPPENED "**
I had the exact same situation at my local texas roadhouse. Also that qr wasn’t an option because the cell service there was horrible. I get replacing menus constantly can add to overhead a lot but least put the menu on some 8.5x11 copy paper
QR code menus are pretty standard, especially after 2020. Clearly they had physical menus and it’s a lot easier for 7 people to just use their phones to see the menu and zoom in.
The real issue is that they provide an actual touch screen that has a “browse menu” option, which takes you to a QR code rather than a menu (which it could easily do)
Two menus + 1 tablet for a table of 7, and you're defending that the qr code is a bad idea even though it's the only way for 7 people to see the menu on your table?
Adnittedly it could have just been printed out on a small piece of sticker but still, I don't follow your reasoning. How would you do it? Just put 20 tablets on each table?
Give them seven paper menus like anywhere else. We were at Roadhouse last month and our table of four had four paper menus in the holder. This isn’t rocket science.
Where I'm from (Turkey) it is the norm to have qr menus everywhere and printed menus are rather rare, but I guess that could be attributed to our shitty economy and the insane inflation that forced places to print out menus every other week so they adapted, but yeah I can see how this isn't a global thing.
Still though, I don't really see the issue as long as the qr code just opens up a website with the menu on it, other than it requiring a phone to operate but at this point you need a phone for most anything anyway (which I also hate but that's another topic).
That makes your perspective understandable then; I wasn't aware that it was a thing in your country. In the US, we have QR menus, but they're not really prevalent. At the places around me, we're still all paper menus everywhere.
I'd sincerely want to go to a place like this.
The camera on my piece of crap phone no longer works. I'd kindly ask the manager if I could borrow their phone to see the menu.
Not hard, but it defeats the purpose! The POINT is to view traffic to their site, add cookies, and track these menu viewers for the rest of time. Using the tablet to view the menu removes that sweet data skimming!
I side with the boomers on this shit. If you wont give me a physical menu at *LEAST* let me see the whole menu from the tablet.
I would walk out and go somewhere else if they forced me to scan a QR code to see a menu.
I'm tech savvy. I could easily scan the QR code. Its the principle of the matter.
If a restaurant won’t give me a paper menu (or display the menu on a board I can see), I leave. If they make me use a phone to order, I leave. If they make me use a phone to pay after I have eaten, I do it once and never return. I refuse to provide my own equipment for eating out, and I would rather leave my phone at home or in the car than have it out at the table.
I’m in the uk, I physically can’t use my phone for that because there’s never any signal, and most places want you to sign up for Wi-Fi which requires an email
>If they make me use a phone to order, I leave.
I love restaurants that uses these.
* No awkward waist twisting, sweaty pits and chicken wings elbows waving in the air.
* Modifiying my meal exactly how I want it, at my own pace.
* Not having to rely on someone's memory/handwritting/listening.
* I can review the entire order myself at a glance, instead of having my server battle rap my order back to the table.
* Know exactly how much my subtotal is.
* In some systems, the order gets immediately printed into the kitchen the moment you hit send.
You have a healthy optimism for technology and my jaded-ass disagrees things will be this smooth! Just wait until the carefully curated order is submitted to the kitchen as HibriIrbf84^{€~€_+{>}^|£\£]*{^.€\€]* or when the option to get No Onions doesn’t work, or when the “allery warning” isn’t conveyed to the back. People make mistakes all the time, but when computers make mistakes they often go unnoticed, unreported and takes forever to fix.
What a strange take? I don’t understand this at all. I feel like all of those things make the eating out experience easier, faster and more convenient. What’s the difference in looking at your phone rather than the menu? Its not like the ordering process is part of the social experience of eating out. Once you order you can put your phone away?
It’s pretty simple. Having to pull out my phone takes me out of the experience I want to be having and puts me into my own little electronic world. I don’t appreciate being required to do that, so I avoid places that force it on me.
I just dont understand the difference between looking at a menu on your phone vs a piece of paper. Either way you are looking at something with the restaurant items on it. Once you make your decision you put your phone back in your pocket. I feel like youre just complaining to complain. Whatever tho, you do you, youre just missing out on a lot of great places.
Not the prior poster, but answering anyway. Having to look at my phone takes me out of the communal experience of eating out and when I’m with others and everyone’s on their phones for crap like this it makes for a very isolated and sterile experience. Also, I’m an IT professional and am on my phone all day constantly for work, so when I go out to unwind afterwards I don’t want to see or be involved with the damn thing unless I absolutey have to, and having to look at a menu that the restaurant should just provide as a matter of course isn’t a good reason to engage with it.
Also, while hard to believe, the fact is there’s still a significant amount of people who don’t own smartphones or any phone at all even, so what are they supposed to do if there’s no physical menu?
Oh I have those days, too. That's when I get takeout.
But if I decide to dine in somewhere, it's because I want to be immersed in the setting that place offers. Sometimes it's with dining partners, sometimes it's even alone. In either case, if I have my phone out, then I'm not really present in the setting, and it feels no different than sitting alone at the kitchen table, ordering takeout. If I wanted that experience, I would have gone for takeout instead.
If I ever saw something that required a QR code to view something, in this case, in a restaurant, I would immediately leave. I saw one in this sub about a grocery store that requires a FUCKING QR Code just to view the prices of each product. Not everyone has a smartphone or any gadget that has the ability to scan QR codes.
Guess I’m not going back to texas roadhouse. I should not need a device and internet access to decide what food I want. If you wanna be cheap with menus, just paste it on the wall at the entrance.
*gets out soap box*
And you know what really grinds my gears?? Menus on TV screens! It’s annoying when you’re looking over the menu, you kinda land on an area that interests you, and then it flips to a completely different menu or switches to a full screen product that corporate is trying to push on you! What white collared CEO is pushing this? This just increases the amount of time that I’m in line, slows down everyone else and upsets me and those in line. A menu should not move or have animation.
For those of you who are saying "yeah but there are paper menus, all you had to do was ask for them" or "you're getting old grandpa/ok boomer":
* Yes, I am getting old. I hate it. My body hurts and I don't know why.
* Yes, there were paper menus. We utilized the paper menus. We were well aware of the fact that we could have asked for more menus if we had needed them. That wasn't the asshole design.
The asshole design was the fact that there was a button labelled "BROWSE MENU", but when you tapped on it, it didn't actually show you the menu. Don't lure me in with a button like this, then send me on a scavenger hunt to find the actual menu. I'm hungry, and a move like this just wastes everyone's time. I have no problem with restaurants using QR codes to get people to view the menu on their phone -- but it would have been much better design if they had showed the QR code right on the home screen. You know, maybe in that big huge space they're wasting with gratuitous pictures of their restaurant that are trying to advertise to people *who are already in their restaurant*.
I mean, there is a menu on the table if I'm seeing correctly, but why even offer the tablet then??? Oh, BTW how much do we bet that the other button works directly through the tablet...?
As someone who runs a tiny software company this is bad customer service. They only cater for those that know how it works everyone else is left to struggle and then get mad at servers.
It's my understanding that using a QR code could enable the source to acquire your phone number. Personal identity data acquisition and trading is a serious business in the U.S, and sleazy.
On the surface, sure -- your phone isn't automatically sending your personal info to the website when you scan a QR code.
The reality is a little more complicated:
* You scan the QR code and your phone prompts you to open the website that the QR code links to.
* Your browser opens and pulls up said website.
* The website has some JavaScript code from a data broker that IDs your device and puts a cookie on your device with that ID. (The code isn't necessarily pulling your personal info, but maybe it's able to pull enough data that they can come up with some ID that's unique to your device.)
* It sends that ID back to their servers. The data broker now knows that you've been to Texas Roadhouse and which specific Texas Roadhouse you've been to and when.
* The data broker can correlate that info with other info that they've collected from you from similar code on other websites. This info will usually include your name, email address, phone number, things you like to shop for, your browsing habits, etc.
* The data broker then makes that data available for sale to others. Next thing I know, I'm getting ads in the mail from nearby steakhouses, online ads for restaurants in my area, etc.
This isn't some sort of far-out fantasy -- it's reality. [Last Week Tonight did a piece about this last year.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqn3gR1WTcA) It's scary.
That's not the complete picture of the QR code based on what I've been reading. Numerous website mention that the code can be used to extract your phone number and possibly email address.
Ask for a menu. If one isn't provided, inform management that you won't be ordering and that the lack of menu is the only reason why. If enough people did that, this nonsense would go away.
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I recently managed to get into the Android keyboard settings on one of these. The fun part is that their patches to SystemUI made it impossible to return to the app it's supposed to run because there was neither the navigation bar nor the status bar so it got stuck. The app eventually restarted itself.
Because if there’s a button that says “Browse the Menu”, I expect it to pull up the menu when I tap it. Showing a QR code when I tap in the button just adds unnecessary steps to the process. Better design would have been to have the QR code on the home screen and not have the button there at all.
*That's crappy design not*
*Asshole design there is no*
*Malicious intent*
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They have a tablet, which means they could show the website or just update the picture when needed
And yet they still makes you scan a qr code
The stupidity levels are high
And that part’s ok; I love paying via the tablet and not having to wait. But I’m with you about the Menu button. It’s just stupid and overtly customer unfriendly.
I won’t eat at a restaurant that won’t take the tablet off of the table and won’t provide me a menu. Period. I’m not here to serve myself. I can do that at home. I’m paying a premium for food and service, and that’s what has to be provided.
Imagine the elderly who don't even know what a qr code is, spent 5 whole minutes trying to explain it to my grandma. This will suck especially for people that didn't even bring a phone or doesn't got camera or anything, just Over all stupid
I hate that QR code shit so much. Last month I was doing a DC Smithsonian museum binge on the weekends. Got to the African Art musem (not to be confused with African American History museum), and instead of descriptions of everything just displayed they had it in all QR codes. Fucking why? Just put a damn sign up. I usually read a good portion at museums, but couldn't be bothered with QR codes so got through pretty quick.
Nahhh there is no way that actually happened, wtf literally whenever I come across one I leave like hell no (especially when they don't even got wifi too put it into google). At a museum is like outrageous the whole point is too read a little description and shit like that's actually crazy
Unfortunately it was there. I wish it wasn't. Some of the stuff I legit wanted to know about, but I'm not gonna stand around and scan a ton of QR codes to read it on my phone when there's a perfectly good spot on that sign.
Yea like imagin walking into a room and everyone's on there phones and your like ' what the actual fuck ' they are being cheap asf not everything gotta be digitized
Probably, but not a lot of people in there when I went, and of those that were, I didn't see anyone scanning any QR codes, they probably felt the same way.
If there’s one thing we shouldn’t be teaching people, it’s to scan every QR code they come across. Those can spread malware.
And then when you scan the QR code at some of those museums it takes you to a website page that doesn’t exist anymore
There are some advantages on QR codes, like you can update stuff without having to print new signs. And for restaurants it’s cool to have the option to order over it and directly pay with Apple Pay maybe. But it should be an option, not mandatory.
Ya I'm not saying they dont have their place, but they should stay in those places.
During Peak Covid I liked it, you could see the menu on your own phone and didn’t have to touch the menu everyone else before did
I'd say the ones where you use the QR code to order is good when you're out with friends and don't want to deal with splitting the check. You just order your own food separately on your own phones.
Not to mention someone can scan and then use google translate to get it in their first language (image scan translate is janky). Then there are people who use screen readers and other assistive devices. Linking to properly laid out pages is more inclusive than print in one language.
I wonder if that is intentional to limit accessibility to the museum. I literally have never been to a museum that had that
I am 67. I understand what a QR code is. But I absolutely fucking refuse to put up with this kind of thing. Other places will happily take my money.
Or there’s no phone signal
I'd explain it just by saying "If you open the camera on your phone, point it at the squares and click this button, you'll see the menu on your phone"
Works for iPhone but not every android necessarily has this, even in 2023
**"HOW DO I OPEN THE CAMERA? THESE DANG THINGS ALWAYS GIVE ME SO MUCH TROUBLE, NO GOOD SLAB OF GARBAGE"** "Alright grandma, lemme take a look- grandma this is the TV remote do you even have your phone?" **"WHAAAAT? YOU NEED TO SPEAK UP I DONT HAVE MY HEARING AIDS IN"** "YOU'RE USING THE TV REMOTE GRANDMA" **"NO, I DONT WANT TO WATCH TV, I WANT TO ORDER FOOD. WHAT ARE YOU, STUPID? I TOLD YOUR MOTHER NOT TO LET YOU WATCH THAT SPONGEBOB CARTOON GROWING UP AND NOW LOOK WHAT HAPPENED "**
Isn’t that a menu in the background on the left of the second photo?
Probs drinks only
I’ve been to Texas Roadhouse many times, thats a menu
Two menus for a table of seven.
Just ask for more menus?
They won't have more tablet computers to give you because that's what you'll get
What restaurants require you to ask for a menu? That's like their one job
I had the exact same situation at my local texas roadhouse. Also that qr wasn’t an option because the cell service there was horrible. I get replacing menus constantly can add to overhead a lot but least put the menu on some 8.5x11 copy paper
QR code menus are pretty standard, especially after 2020. Clearly they had physical menus and it’s a lot easier for 7 people to just use their phones to see the menu and zoom in.
The real issue is that they provide an actual touch screen that has a “browse menu” option, which takes you to a QR code rather than a menu (which it could easily do)
Fair but one little tablet isn’t enough for, say, seven people.
Right...but then just show the QR code on the home screen. If I see a button that says "Browse Menu", I expect it to pull up a menu, not a QR code.
This.
Two menus + 1 tablet for a table of 7, and you're defending that the qr code is a bad idea even though it's the only way for 7 people to see the menu on your table? Adnittedly it could have just been printed out on a small piece of sticker but still, I don't follow your reasoning. How would you do it? Just put 20 tablets on each table?
Give them seven paper menus like anywhere else. We were at Roadhouse last month and our table of four had four paper menus in the holder. This isn’t rocket science.
Where I'm from (Turkey) it is the norm to have qr menus everywhere and printed menus are rather rare, but I guess that could be attributed to our shitty economy and the insane inflation that forced places to print out menus every other week so they adapted, but yeah I can see how this isn't a global thing. Still though, I don't really see the issue as long as the qr code just opens up a website with the menu on it, other than it requiring a phone to operate but at this point you need a phone for most anything anyway (which I also hate but that's another topic).
That makes your perspective understandable then; I wasn't aware that it was a thing in your country. In the US, we have QR menus, but they're not really prevalent. At the places around me, we're still all paper menus everywhere.
I'd sincerely want to go to a place like this. The camera on my piece of crap phone no longer works. I'd kindly ask the manager if I could borrow their phone to see the menu.
How is it so friggin hard for the to upload the damn menu to the tablet in the first place? Shitey restaurant behaviour 😅
Not hard, but it defeats the purpose! The POINT is to view traffic to their site, add cookies, and track these menu viewers for the rest of time. Using the tablet to view the menu removes that sweet data skimming!
True true, but the absolute cheek of it 😅
I side with the boomers on this shit. If you wont give me a physical menu at *LEAST* let me see the whole menu from the tablet. I would walk out and go somewhere else if they forced me to scan a QR code to see a menu. I'm tech savvy. I could easily scan the QR code. Its the principle of the matter.
Exactly. I don't want to scroll though the menu on my phone.
That would be my cue to leave.
If a restaurant won’t give me a paper menu (or display the menu on a board I can see), I leave. If they make me use a phone to order, I leave. If they make me use a phone to pay after I have eaten, I do it once and never return. I refuse to provide my own equipment for eating out, and I would rather leave my phone at home or in the car than have it out at the table.
I’m in the uk, I physically can’t use my phone for that because there’s never any signal, and most places want you to sign up for Wi-Fi which requires an email
there's no way for them to verify your email because you need internet for that anyway, so you can just use a bullshit address like [email protected]
I needed to click a link to activate it
>If they make me use a phone to order, I leave. I love restaurants that uses these. * No awkward waist twisting, sweaty pits and chicken wings elbows waving in the air. * Modifiying my meal exactly how I want it, at my own pace. * Not having to rely on someone's memory/handwritting/listening. * I can review the entire order myself at a glance, instead of having my server battle rap my order back to the table. * Know exactly how much my subtotal is. * In some systems, the order gets immediately printed into the kitchen the moment you hit send.
You have a healthy optimism for technology and my jaded-ass disagrees things will be this smooth! Just wait until the carefully curated order is submitted to the kitchen as HibriIrbf84^{€~€_+{>}^|£\£]*{^.€\€]* or when the option to get No Onions doesn’t work, or when the “allery warning” isn’t conveyed to the back. People make mistakes all the time, but when computers make mistakes they often go unnoticed, unreported and takes forever to fix.
I will have the spaghetti with a side salad. If the salad is on top, I will send it back.
What a strange take? I don’t understand this at all. I feel like all of those things make the eating out experience easier, faster and more convenient. What’s the difference in looking at your phone rather than the menu? Its not like the ordering process is part of the social experience of eating out. Once you order you can put your phone away?
It’s pretty simple. Having to pull out my phone takes me out of the experience I want to be having and puts me into my own little electronic world. I don’t appreciate being required to do that, so I avoid places that force it on me.
I just dont understand the difference between looking at a menu on your phone vs a piece of paper. Either way you are looking at something with the restaurant items on it. Once you make your decision you put your phone back in your pocket. I feel like youre just complaining to complain. Whatever tho, you do you, youre just missing out on a lot of great places.
Not the prior poster, but answering anyway. Having to look at my phone takes me out of the communal experience of eating out and when I’m with others and everyone’s on their phones for crap like this it makes for a very isolated and sterile experience. Also, I’m an IT professional and am on my phone all day constantly for work, so when I go out to unwind afterwards I don’t want to see or be involved with the damn thing unless I absolutey have to, and having to look at a menu that the restaurant should just provide as a matter of course isn’t a good reason to engage with it. Also, while hard to believe, the fact is there’s still a significant amount of people who don’t own smartphones or any phone at all even, so what are they supposed to do if there’s no physical menu?
Interesting. I love digital menus, if I didn’t have to talk to another server again I wouldn’t mind at all.
Oh I have those days, too. That's when I get takeout. But if I decide to dine in somewhere, it's because I want to be immersed in the setting that place offers. Sometimes it's with dining partners, sometimes it's even alone. In either case, if I have my phone out, then I'm not really present in the setting, and it feels no different than sitting alone at the kitchen table, ordering takeout. If I wanted that experience, I would have gone for takeout instead.
This must be a really weird Texas Roadhouse. I've never been to one that *didn't* give me a paper menu.
WTF is this, this is a TABLET, it can also refresh the menu periodically. Who came up with this?
If I ever saw something that required a QR code to view something, in this case, in a restaurant, I would immediately leave. I saw one in this sub about a grocery store that requires a FUCKING QR Code just to view the prices of each product. Not everyone has a smartphone or any gadget that has the ability to scan QR codes.
Or the signal to use it
Get up & **LEAVE**.
Or… ask for more menus
You can request more menus on their website. Simply scan the QR code for more details.
You are a part of the problem.
Guess I’m not going back to texas roadhouse. I should not need a device and internet access to decide what food I want. If you wanna be cheap with menus, just paste it on the wall at the entrance. *gets out soap box* And you know what really grinds my gears?? Menus on TV screens! It’s annoying when you’re looking over the menu, you kinda land on an area that interests you, and then it flips to a completely different menu or switches to a full screen product that corporate is trying to push on you! What white collared CEO is pushing this? This just increases the amount of time that I’m in line, slows down everyone else and upsets me and those in line. A menu should not move or have animation.
For those of you who are saying "yeah but there are paper menus, all you had to do was ask for them" or "you're getting old grandpa/ok boomer": * Yes, I am getting old. I hate it. My body hurts and I don't know why. * Yes, there were paper menus. We utilized the paper menus. We were well aware of the fact that we could have asked for more menus if we had needed them. That wasn't the asshole design. The asshole design was the fact that there was a button labelled "BROWSE MENU", but when you tapped on it, it didn't actually show you the menu. Don't lure me in with a button like this, then send me on a scavenger hunt to find the actual menu. I'm hungry, and a move like this just wastes everyone's time. I have no problem with restaurants using QR codes to get people to view the menu on their phone -- but it would have been much better design if they had showed the QR code right on the home screen. You know, maybe in that big huge space they're wasting with gratuitous pictures of their restaurant that are trying to advertise to people *who are already in their restaurant*.
I mean, there is a menu on the table if I'm seeing correctly, but why even offer the tablet then??? Oh, BTW how much do we bet that the other button works directly through the tablet...?
As someone who runs a tiny software company this is bad customer service. They only cater for those that know how it works everyone else is left to struggle and then get mad at servers.
That's not my problem with it. I don't want another company scraping my data.
We have these in Amsterdam too. Not very popular but they don't ask for your data, is different where you are?
It's my understanding that using a QR code could enable the source to acquire your phone number. Personal identity data acquisition and trading is a serious business in the U.S, and sleazy.
No, that's not how QR codes work. It's just a barcode and nothing more, no personal information is shared.
On the surface, sure -- your phone isn't automatically sending your personal info to the website when you scan a QR code. The reality is a little more complicated: * You scan the QR code and your phone prompts you to open the website that the QR code links to. * Your browser opens and pulls up said website. * The website has some JavaScript code from a data broker that IDs your device and puts a cookie on your device with that ID. (The code isn't necessarily pulling your personal info, but maybe it's able to pull enough data that they can come up with some ID that's unique to your device.) * It sends that ID back to their servers. The data broker now knows that you've been to Texas Roadhouse and which specific Texas Roadhouse you've been to and when. * The data broker can correlate that info with other info that they've collected from you from similar code on other websites. This info will usually include your name, email address, phone number, things you like to shop for, your browsing habits, etc. * The data broker then makes that data available for sale to others. Next thing I know, I'm getting ads in the mail from nearby steakhouses, online ads for restaurants in my area, etc. This isn't some sort of far-out fantasy -- it's reality. [Last Week Tonight did a piece about this last year.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqn3gR1WTcA) It's scary.
Well not for me, as we have GDPR and you need consent first.
Yeah…the US is still a lawless wasteland when it comes to data privacy.
I know, and you guys deserve better. I did hear recently that you guys are heading down the GDPR road.
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That's not the complete picture of the QR code based on what I've been reading. Numerous website mention that the code can be used to extract your phone number and possibly email address.
Wtf.
Does it play Skyrim?
Dunno, but if it did, they would probably charge you $10 to play it.
Ask for a menu. If one isn't provided, inform management that you won't be ordering and that the lack of menu is the only reason why. If enough people did that, this nonsense would go away.
There were menus. It was more the fact that a button labelled "BROWSE MENU" didn't actually bring up the menu.
I've seen numerous posts about restaurants that only provide a menu via QR code.
I’d leave. Getting real tired of everything harvesting data, sure as hell ain’t gonna let a god damn menu card do it.
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Not really the time or the place for this but i agree
I'd say needing an electronic device to even order food is very industrialsociety core
Take a picture of the code then scan it with their tablet
Can’t, they have the OS locked down pretty well.
No restaurant security is locked down enough of you're just the right amount of stubborn
Fair, but how much can I do while I’m sitting in the restaurant with no tools?
In my experience with these exact situations, you fuck around enough to things go your way. It's a long wait anyways, so why not?
I recently managed to get into the Android keyboard settings on one of these. The fun part is that their patches to SystemUI made it impossible to return to the app it's supposed to run because there was neither the navigation bar nor the status bar so it got stuck. The app eventually restarted itself.
Anytime i see a qr menu i just leave, i’m not scanning your bs
So much for "Legendary Service"
Texas Roadhouse usually has menus on the table already. Which you don’t need. You already got the delicious free bread. What more do you need son? 🍞
Does your Texas Roadhouse not give you menus? Literally every one I’ve been to gives you menus when they seat you. Just ask for a menu
There are physical menus on every table. If you don't have enough, ask your server for more. Why is this even an issue or question or post?
Because if there’s a button that says “Browse the Menu”, I expect it to pull up the menu when I tap it. Showing a QR code when I tap in the button just adds unnecessary steps to the process. Better design would have been to have the QR code on the home screen and not have the button there at all.
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It also plants tracking cookies on your phone btw
we have a restraint like those
Would be bad if I just call the waiter and lied about my phone died and make them explain every single menu, its detail and price
If you really don’t want my business go ahead and keep this up.
In Italy it s everywhere like this since COVID.
My phone is so old that it won't even work with QR codes. Any app I download to try it, just won't register at all.
They have a tablet, which means they could show the website or just update the picture when needed And yet they still makes you scan a qr code The stupidity levels are high
There's usually a physical menu for those who are disabled or don't have phones. If they don't have a physical menu they aren't worth going to.
Stupid, but not asshole
This post reeks of "the world is changing and I'm mad about it" boomer energy
excellent solution: just leave
Probably because they skimped on the tablets they use and using them to view the menu would piss people off even more than this crap!
Ask for a paper menu. 🤷♂️
Time to just leave and kindly mention the reason on the way OUT.
What's the point of even having a tablet then?
To let you pay without bothering the server.
And that part’s ok; I love paying via the tablet and not having to wait. But I’m with you about the Menu button. It’s just stupid and overtly customer unfriendly.
Well, that makes sense
I thought QR codes died like 10 years ago. Why are they back suddenly?
COVID era.
I won’t eat at a restaurant that won’t take the tablet off of the table and won’t provide me a menu. Period. I’m not here to serve myself. I can do that at home. I’m paying a premium for food and service, and that’s what has to be provided.
My phone's camera lens has a crack in it. QR codes are unscannable.
why isint the menu on the tablet?