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It's amazing how slow and inconvenient QR code menus are compared to a proper mobile app or even better, a laminated paper menu.

crazygringo 4y ago
A QR code opens a link for me in about 5 seconds. A mobile app takes at least a full minute to authorize and download and install over a cell connection. And I sure don't want to install a new app every time I go to a restaurant. A laminated paper menu often takes several minutes for the server to bring around, or worse. QR codes are literally the fastest thing around.
- bombcar 4y ago
  What are these restaurants that don't have the hostess give you menus? The lowest class ones have menus printed on the little table placemats, middle ones always have a pile of menus the host grabs from when seating you (and calls you Party of X, always), and the highest ones either arrange for wine first, or you're getting a menu from the server right as you're seated by the hostess. I suppose there's some middle-ground "seat yourself" style ones but I can't recall any recently.
  - crazygringo 4y ago
    Like everywhere I go in NYC? Pretty common for restaurants not to have a host, you just ask a waiter nearby and they tell you to sit anywhere you like, and that someone will be by to serve you. Hosts are expensive and NYC restaurants are often quite small so it's very common not to have them.
BiometricAndy 4y ago
Its amazing how slow and inconvenient are America moving towards new technology. In Asia we typically browse using online system and no own fumbled it yet somehow on this tech website, everyone fumbled it.
- oefrha 4y ago
  A good number of problems solved elsewhere are routinely proclaimed as unsolvable in the U.S. Solutions are categorically rejected in the U.S. because implementation is somehow uniquely crappified. The worst form of American exceptionalism.
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- indymike 4y ago
  A lot of this is because things like Line and WeChat haven't take off here.
- kjkjadksj 4y ago
  Must be wonderful having everyone in the continent of asia having a charged phone and cell reception in every restaurant. Us Americans are not so lucky.

crazygringo 4y ago

A QR code opens a link for me in about 5 seconds. A mobile app takes at least a full minute to authorize and download and install over a cell connection. And I sure don't want to install a new app every time I go to a restaurant. A laminated paper menu often takes several minutes for the server to bring around, or worse. QR codes are literally the fastest thing around.

bombcar 4y ago
What are these restaurants that don't have the hostess give you menus? The lowest class ones have menus printed on the little table placemats, middle ones always have a pile of menus the host grabs from when seating you (and calls you Party of X, always), and the highest ones either arrange for wine first, or you're getting a menu from the server right as you're seated by the hostess. I suppose there's some middle-ground "seat yourself" style ones but I can't recall any recently.
- crazygringo 4y ago
  Like everywhere I go in NYC? Pretty common for restaurants not to have a host, you just ask a waiter nearby and they tell you to sit anywhere you like, and that someone will be by to serve you. Hosts are expensive and NYC restaurants are often quite small so it's very common not to have them.

BiometricAndy 4y ago

Its amazing how slow and inconvenient are America moving towards new technology. In Asia we typically browse using online system and no own fumbled it yet somehow on this tech website, everyone fumbled it.

oefrha 4y ago
A good number of problems solved elsewhere are routinely proclaimed as unsolvable in the U.S. Solutions are categorically rejected in the U.S. because implementation is somehow uniquely crappified. The worst form of American exceptionalism.
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indymike 4y ago
A lot of this is because things like Line and WeChat haven't take off here.
kjkjadksj 4y ago
Must be wonderful having everyone in the continent of asia having a charged phone and cell reception in every restaurant. Us Americans are not so lucky.