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It's also annoying to have to bring a phone to a restaurant. Not everyone carries them everywhere. I resent having to have one with me to participate fully in
by nmeagent 4y ago
It's also annoying to have to bring a phone to a restaurant. Not everyone carries them everywhere. I resent having to have one with me to participate fully in modern society, always listening and collecting data for its corporate masters. I occasionally wish I could throw mine into a large body of water; who knows, maybe some day I will.
- JoBrad 4y agoYou don’t have to bring a phone. You can ask the server to bring one, or ask them what is on the menu, if they don’t have one.
- CogitoCogito 4y agoOr you can ask them to bring you a real menu I guess.
- JoBrad 4y agoThat’s actually what I meant, but my comment didn’t describe very well.
- SantalBlush 4y agoAsking the server to bring a phone instead of a menu could be actual satire.
- bombcar 4y agoNow I'm imagining a restaurant handing out iPads instead of menus to keep you "safe". If I recall correctly before Covid Applebees had some weird off-brand tablet thing on the table that looked like you could badly order via it, but mainly what it did was not work for playing some horrible Android game. I suppose it could be used as a projectile.
- smsm42 4y agoI've been in several restaurants which use tablets. Nothing wrong with it. They're not handing them out, each table has them. E.g. Yard House does it.
- rippercushions 4y agoTablet ordering has been common in Japan for years. Usually they're bolted to the table with a locked charging cable.
- vladvasiliu 4y agoI was at a restaurant in LA that had a tablet-like gizmo on the tables. You could order through it, call the waiter, and pay at the end. It wasn't presented as for keeping us safe, though. The fun fact was that the waiter actually gave us paper menus when sitting us, without even asking, though they also introduced the gizmo. I actually found that quite nice, since they had a wide selection of beers and there was a beer-selection app that would go in the details of each beer and allowed us to easily choose the kind we wanted.
- sdfhbdf 4y agoHappened to me pretty recently in Bogotá, Colombia. At the table waiter handed us two very old iPads with broken screens to read a PDF of the menu. In Santiago, Chile I was handed waiter’s phone with a menu from some local takeout when I informed them that I can’t read their menu hosted via QR since i don’t have data. In South America it’s unfortunately popular to just have QR leading you to a huge PDF hosted somewhere in US to read a menu. Even in places that barely have internet like in the mountains… And more often than not they don’t have paper backups.