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> A website? You had actual websites? We got mostly PDFs of paper menus. And they would often give you an actual paper menu if you asked. Not just any website.
by naravara 3y ago
> A website? You had actual websites? We got mostly PDFs of paper menus. And they would often give you an actual paper menu if you asked.
Not just any website. Often it sends you straight to some online ordering portal like Toast or Doordash. And this bring all the slow performance and pop-ups and adware that implies. Very fun to try to load these bloated web apps when you have 1 bar of cell signal.
- grishka 3y agoActually I had that happen to me in Dubai last year. They wanted me to order through the website, I put my order in and then a card payment form came up. I didn't have any internationally-accepted cards back then so I had to order through the server to be able to pay cash. Oh and on top of that they didn't have any real drinks, only bottled soft drinks at 3x the grocery store prices. I imagine most of the business in such places comes from delivery so they don't care much about dine-in guests.