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QR Codes, Really?

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Rickrock

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About a week ago I was in Chicago and we went into a deli/bar to get lunch. When they seated us they gave us a slip of paper with a scanning code on it. We wondered what that was for. When the waiter come to take our order he eventually realized we didn't know what it was for. He said that we should scan it and the menu would appear on our phones so we could know what to order. I have a flip top cell phone and do not have a smart phone, so I couldn't. He eventually brought us a folded up paper menu that he said was the last menu they had. Someone else has since said that some bars do this as well. It looks like they will force me to eventually get a smart phone.
 
No. They won't. Most businesses will use it up to a point, but know they don't want to lose sales due to the effrontery of assuming you're ready to become their digital customer. Any time a server implies I should use one, I laugh and share that I was a busboy once, and I don't plan on doing the dishes when eating out, or waiting on myself.

After all, you got in a vehicle, walked, or caught a bus to eat out, so you're not a takeout customer and you wanted to be an in-person diner. Servers who push the video screens and the phone apps may be doing as they were told, to reduce staffing, but your pushback can change that. For those servers who truly embrace it as some sort of labor-saving wave of the future, don't give in to that fallacy. It is no more true that brick and mortar stores or bookstores becoming extinct. Are they both much reduced since online reading and Amazon sales? Sure, but not dead and not going to die.

Your best bet is to register your displeasure at being pushed to read a menu on a little phone screen, or even on the tablets that chains like Chili's use. You have every right to expect a live interaction about the menu, with a server answering questions without you being bogged down typing it all out like chat.
And remind managers and owners in reviews and in person that you're tipping for service, which most importantly means being waited on, not doing everything but the cooking yourself.

If we do that nicely but assertively, this lazy trend will stall largely, and just the lower expectation customers will get to enjoy the modernity.
 
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QR codes can have malware in them along with other annoying nasties

I am not a trusting soul

give me a damn menu or be prepared to read the whole thing to me :)
 
We´ve had this in the Netherlands for a while. The ´health´ clinic sends them by e-mail for your appointments, but you scan it there and you get a number card with your pincode on it.

In restaurants it´s a gimmick, and you can mainly get a paper menu as well.
 
Rickrock said:
About a week ago I was in Chicago and we went into a deli/bar to get lunch. When they seated us they gave us a slip of paper with a scanning code on it. We wondered what that was for. When the waiter come to take our order he eventually realized we didn't know what it was for. He said that we should scan it and the menu would appear on our phones so we could know what to order. I have a flip top cell phone and do not have a smart phone, so I couldn't. He eventually brought us a folded up paper menu that he said was the last menu they had. Someone else has since said that some bars do this as well. It looks like they will force me to eventually get a smart phone.
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There is a restaurant I sometimes go to that has a similar system. The idea came about over Covid influenced social distancing. As well as ordering online they sneakily wanted you to pay online as well. I, for one, am not comfortable having the ability to pay on my phone so don't use it.
 
LeicsDom said:
There is a restaurant I sometimes go to that has a similar system. The idea came about over Covid influenced social distancing. As well as ordering online they sneakily wanted you to pay online as well. I, for one, am not comfortable having the ability to pay on my phone so don't use it.
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The entire electronic online payment thing sounds like a marvelous ploy to teleport your money forever away.

johaninsc said:
QR codes can have malware in them along with other annoying nasties

I am not a trusting soul

give me a damn menu or be prepared to read the whole thing to me :)
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STD´s in MY smartphone!?!

Boy I miss Ram.
 
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I don't even know how to use a QR code. I'd go somewhere else personally.
 
I've seen them everywhere lately but never tried to use one. So, I went to a play the other night (outdoor) and the attendant there had a QR code for everyone to scan in order to get the program...it either wouldn't work on my phone or I'm an idiot. She said I could go to the website to read it, which was more bother than it was worth. I'm not looking to upgrade my phone as it works for what I generally need, and I like to save the programs of plays I've seen, guess that's over now.
 
/\ I'm sure those programs are available to download in PDF format.

Save the digital version on your computer, or skip the computer and send it directly from your phone to your printer via Bluetooth, WiFi or Nearby for a paper version.
 
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I've seen them everywhere lately but never tried to use one. So, I went to a play the other night (outdoor) and the attendant there had a QR code for everyone to scan in order to get the program...it either wouldn't work on my phone or I'm an idiot. She said I could go to the website to read it, which was more bother than it was worth. I'm not looking to upgrade my phone as it works for what I generally need, and I like to save the programs of plays I've seen, guess that's over now.
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That would piss me off. I collect the programs of the shows I see. Glad I have not ran into that yet.
 
/\ The modern packrat collects digitally.

Do your best to keep up. :)
 
I always ask for a proper paper menu when a QR code is offered. I believe the custom started during the time of Covid restrictions. I don't recall that they were in use in any of the restaurants I recently frequented in Ireland or France.

My airline travels over the past year were largely done with QR codes and/or facial recognition. Re-entry into the US was accomplished with facial recognition, no passport required.
 
I have a cell phone and I wouldn't scane no QR codes just to see a menu I'd tell them I'm not scanning anything with my phone. And I'm kinda like how my dad would do in the same situation probably
 
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