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Sure, you could also just go to a supermarket. If you don't know what to expect, why risk it?
by faangsticle 3y ago
Sure, you could also just go to a supermarket. If you don't know what to expect, why risk it?
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- mr_mitm 3y agoIt's not that big of a risk to be honest. People did it all the time before the internet. Some people are not pathologically risk adverse and might even enjoy being surprised.
- mhb 3y agorisk averse
- bee_rider 3y agoIt was how restaurants worked for a long time. Of course, if you prefer the predictability of seeing the menu before you get there, that’s your preference, fair enough. But I wonder if you might miss out on some places run by cooks who put all their talent into cooking, and none into technology. Could be some good stuff…
- aaomidi 3y agoTalent isn’t a zero sum game. It takes next to no effort to throw your menu as a photo on google maps for example.
- wizzwizz4 3y agoThat would not have occurred to me as a thing to do. It takes non-zero effort to think of these things in the first place.
- aaomidi 3y agoEvery business needs marketing, even the most basic coffee shop. Maintaining an online presence is just part of running a modern business. You’re free to not do it, but the market will push you out in favor of businesses that do.
- pdntspa 3y agoIt would be nice if the technology people would stop expecting everyone to cater to them.
- aaomidi 3y agoYou mean market forces that pushes the companies that make their business less accessible? I personally don’t expect anything. I’ll just not go to places that don’t have information. That’s the market in action.
- wizzwizz4 3y agoMarket forces are made of people. You can't just abdicate responsibility for your actions by saying "I'm making financial actions, therefore it's the invisible hand doing it, woooo!".
- steveklabnik 3y agoExample of how this falls apart: you change your prices. You change your menu. You have different menus for different times of day. You have different menus for special occasions.
- unnah 3y agoGood point. Also, once the customer is accessing the menu through their smartphone, modern ad tracking technologies also enable pricing to match the expected buying power of the customer. This way the hospitality industry and their adtech partners can extract more value from the transaction and thus increase the efficiency of the market.
- derefr 3y agoAFIAK those pictures-of-menus don't come from the restaurant owner, but from the people dining there. I believe they're partly scraped from restaurant review sites like Zomato (where the pictures-of-menus are interspersed with pictures-of-the-food-itself) and partly the result of Google doing Google Lens things to your Google Photos to figure out that you took photos while inside a restaurant, and then asking you if it can use them.