Original title: Against Restaurant QR Codes Subtitle: They degrade the social experience of dining out. It is (right or wrong) an opinion piece, where the ha

Original title: Against Restaurant QR Codes Subtitle: They degrade the social experience of dining out. It is (right or wrong) an opinion piece, where the harmfulness is mentioned as follows: >QR codes may also raise data-security concerns. Data collection on our food choices will leave some people justifiably unnerved. It may seem farfetched to tie QR service to authoritarianism, but provincial governments in China are already using similar consumer data to nudge behaviors in their preferred direction. In Guangdong, people are docked or credited with price adjustment at local restaurants and retailers for their transit choices, all via digital platforms. In light of this practice, coercive pressure on food choices hardly seems implausible.