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> You can read the menu as long as you'd like before you get on the line to order. The waiter can always come back. I mean really... No I can't, because lots o
by yeputons 4y ago
> You can read the menu as long as you'd like before you get on the line to order. The waiter can always come back. I mean really...
No I can't, because lots of restaurants don't bother to put all possible options and their descriptions or even just a list of non-alcoholic beverages there. Wine cart is always there, but specifying a kind of tea seems like a big no-no. What kind of tea is that? Oh, some random bags which you can check in the kitchen in a few minutes? Do you have apple juice then? How large is it? Can you make it without ice? Maybe you have some other rarer drinks that I like? Can you remove pickles from the burger, even though there were none on the picture, but I've heard from the neighboring table that there are some?
An average kiosk answers all these questions because it _has to_ have buttons for these options. An average menu does not, it relies on me remembering all the possibilities and interacting with a waiter or a cashier.
And I'm not even talking fast-food restaurants where the menu is up at the top, only listing a tenth of the options with pictures, and the rest being written in a small font I'm unable to see without binoculars.
- MisterTea 4y ago> No I can't, because lots of restaurants don't bother to put all possible options and their descriptions or even just a list of non-alcoholic beverages there. > An average kiosk answers all these questions because it _has to_ have buttons for these options. So a restaurant which cant be bothered to list everything in a printed menu is going to list everything in a kiosk? Did you really type all this without thinking?
- TulliusCicero 4y ago> So a restaurant which cant be bothered to list everything in a printed menu is going to list everything in a kiosk? Correct, because in a printed menu you usually don't have things like "no pickles" or "extra onions" because it's assumed you'll tell an employee that vocally, whereas in a kiosk you obviously need to be able to do that in the interface. In practice, this means that there can be 'hidden options' that people may not be aware of on a printed menu. > Did you really type all this without thinking? This was unnecessary.