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I'd refuse to touch your phone and insult you for the offer. If you don't have a paper menu the question of me giving you money is already off the table; the f

I'd refuse to touch your phone and insult you for the offer. If you don't have a paper menu the question of me giving you money is already off the table; the food is forgotten and my new mission in your restaurant is to punish you with my vindictive attitude. If enough waitresses complain about obnoxious boomers giving them grief, I think the business owner will eventually wisen up.

shagie 3y ago
At The Fish Market, they had menus printed out each day with the current market rates of all the fish that they had and modified it for that day's availability. Each day, they had new paper menus ( https://menucuisine.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/The-Fish-Market-Palo-Alto-Menu-1.jpg https://menucuisine.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/The-Fish-... - note the top) Their menu is now also at https://order.online/store/the-fish-market-palo-alto-723242/?hideModal=true&pickup=true https://order.online/store/the-fish-market-palo-alto-723242/... I'm not sure if they still have paper menus or what the expense of those menus were.
throwanem 3y ago
You don't know how the restaurant business works, for one thing. For another, acting like an asshole to waitstaff just makes you look like an asshole, and gratifying yourself in public over your supposedly principled stand in acting like an asshole doubly so. QR code links to menus are bad, sure. I'd still rather eat at ten places that have those than one place that has you.
- mcpackieh 3y ago
  > I'd still rather eat at ten places that have those than one place that has you. If my making a scene makes other customers upset, then it's working. I know businesses hate it when people do this, and that's why I know it's an effective tactic. The whole point of the protest is to sabotage the business by making everybody else in the room upset.
  - throwanem 3y ago
    The only person unclear on who the asshole is here is you.
    - mcpackieh 3y ago
      Acting like an asshole is the means of protest I consciously choose. Another commenter here chooses to put stickers over the QR codes instead; I think that's pretty clever and I applaud that, but I prefer to keep it strictly legal. Stickers are technically vandalism, but ruining your day by acting like an asshole is completely legal and very effective.
      - throwanem 3y ago
        ...he said, to somebody who responds to such behavior by tipping double or triple, and by taking the manager aside to note that the best way in the world to retain my custom is to throw your ass out and make sure you stay that way.
pierat 3y ago
You're nice. I replace them with "HaCKed" videos from YouTube. Obviously a YT vid doesn't hack anything, but it does scare the companies out of complacency when it's trivial to swap to real malware.
tough 3y ago
I'd just try to get rid of you as fast as possible. kicking you out if needed. You can be doing all this nonsense to an owner serving you.

shagie 3y ago

At The Fish Market, they had menus printed out each day with the current market rates of all the fish that they had and modified it for that day's availability. Each day, they had new paper menus ( https://menucuisine.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/The-Fish-Market-Palo-Alto-Menu-1.jpg https://menucuisine.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/The-Fish-... - note the top) Their menu is now also at https://order.online/store/the-fish-market-palo-alto-723242/?hideModal=true&pickup=true https://order.online/store/the-fish-market-palo-alto-723242/... I'm not sure if they still have paper menus or what the expense of those menus were.

throwanem 3y ago

You don't know how the restaurant business works, for one thing. For another, acting like an asshole to waitstaff just makes you look like an asshole, and gratifying yourself in public over your supposedly principled stand in acting like an asshole doubly so. QR code links to menus are bad, sure. I'd still rather eat at ten places that have those than one place that has you.

mcpackieh 3y ago
> I'd still rather eat at ten places that have those than one place that has you. If my making a scene makes other customers upset, then it's working. I know businesses hate it when people do this, and that's why I know it's an effective tactic. The whole point of the protest is to sabotage the business by making everybody else in the room upset.
- throwanem 3y ago
  The only person unclear on who the asshole is here is you.
  - mcpackieh 3y ago
    Acting like an asshole is the means of protest I consciously choose. Another commenter here chooses to put stickers over the QR codes instead; I think that's pretty clever and I applaud that, but I prefer to keep it strictly legal. Stickers are technically vandalism, but ruining your day by acting like an asshole is completely legal and very effective.
    - throwanem 3y ago
      ...he said, to somebody who responds to such behavior by tipping double or triple, and by taking the manager aside to note that the best way in the world to retain my custom is to throw your ass out and make sure you stay that way.

pierat 3y ago

You're nice. I replace them with "HaCKed" videos from YouTube. Obviously a YT vid doesn't hack anything, but it does scare the companies out of complacency when it's trivial to swap to real malware.

tough 3y ago

I'd just try to get rid of you as fast as possible. kicking you out if needed. You can be doing all this nonsense to an owner serving you.