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Pardon my ignorance, as I haven’t been to a restaurant since the pandemic started. How does that work when you have 2 or more people you’re ordering for? Do you

Pardon my ignorance, as I haven’t been to a restaurant since the pandemic started. How does that work when you have 2 or more people you’re ordering for? Do you pass the phone around? Do they have to look at it and tell you what they want and you enter it? Do you ask them, “Do you want X? No? Y? What about Z?” Sounds like a huge pain to me.

oefrha 4y ago
They open the menu on their own phone and tell the person doing the ordering what they want. An upgrade over physical menus, of which you often get only one copy for your table. I don’t miss passing a physical menu around and wasting five minutes on each person.
- bombcar 4y ago
  I haven't seen one menu per table, in well, I don't know if I've ever seen that except at a bar late at night.
glenngillen 4y ago
Some places have the table number encoded in the QR code. Others you type it in. Everyone at the table could put in their own orders on their own phones if they wanted to, or one person could enter them all in. For the former it makes it very simple for everyone to only pay for their own things too. Honestly, as someone with young kids it's been an absolute dream. We can scan or tap as soon as we get to the table, one of us can quickly fire off some order for food and drinks for the kids, and more often than not things have arrived before we've finished unpacking the coloring books and other things to keep them occupied. At which point the adults can sit down and chat, which is usually the main reason we're out, and order at our leisure.
px1999 4y ago
It depends on the venue and provider. A lot of pub type settings will have a note saying that orders placed within 5 min of one another will come out together. In my experience the more upmarket the place, the less likely they are to have ordering via phone (or payment at the time of ordering). But you can also get someone at the table to place the order for everyone. Or often go and order at the bar (also something that you don't see too much in North America), or if its a restaurant grab a member of staff and order in a more classic way.
brendamn 4y ago
They use their own phone to order.
- thewebcount 4y ago
  I was largely thinking about being there with kids who wouldn’t have their own phone.

oefrha 4y ago

They open the menu on their own phone and tell the person doing the ordering what they want. An upgrade over physical menus, of which you often get only one copy for your table. I don’t miss passing a physical menu around and wasting five minutes on each person.

bombcar 4y ago
I haven't seen one menu per table, in well, I don't know if I've ever seen that except at a bar late at night.

glenngillen 4y ago

Some places have the table number encoded in the QR code. Others you type it in. Everyone at the table could put in their own orders on their own phones if they wanted to, or one person could enter them all in. For the former it makes it very simple for everyone to only pay for their own things too. Honestly, as someone with young kids it's been an absolute dream. We can scan or tap as soon as we get to the table, one of us can quickly fire off some order for food and drinks for the kids, and more often than not things have arrived before we've finished unpacking the coloring books and other things to keep them occupied. At which point the adults can sit down and chat, which is usually the main reason we're out, and order at our leisure.

px1999 4y ago

It depends on the venue and provider. A lot of pub type settings will have a note saying that orders placed within 5 min of one another will come out together. In my experience the more upmarket the place, the less likely they are to have ordering via phone (or payment at the time of ordering). But you can also get someone at the table to place the order for everyone. Or often go and order at the bar (also something that you don't see too much in North America), or if its a restaurant grab a member of staff and order in a more classic way.

brendamn 4y ago

They use their own phone to order.

thewebcount 4y ago
I was largely thinking about being there with kids who wouldn’t have their own phone.