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You’re describing online ordering. This article is about links to a PDF.
by mulmen 3y ago
You’re describing online ordering. This article is about links to a PDF.
- Arainach 3y agoMany restaurants (quite possibly most) take away the menus after you've ordered and traditionally had to bring them back if you wanted dessert/another round of drinks/etc. If they left menus, they're fighting space on what is often a table barely large enough to hold a plate for everyone seated at it QR code to PDF improves both these scenarios.
- bluGill 3y agoThey took menus away to discourage changing your mind
- addandsubtract 3y agoWho changes their mind after ordering?
- cortesoft 3y agoNo they don’t. They take them away to make room on the table for your food.
- prmoustache 3y agoUsually the waiter take back the menu right after you ordered so I doubt it.
- bluGill 3y agoThat is why the waiter took them away. Wome seem to interput what I said as why some are taking away paper menus, not what I meant
- prmoustache 3y agoMost of the time the only reason is there is just no room on the table for the menus to be kept. There are a few places (usually burger joints) where the menu is a piece of paper that actually serve as a placemat that the waiters won't take back from you. I doubt a lot of people are changing their mind. I've rarely seen that.
- eszed 3y agoNah. They take away physical menus because they need them for the next guests. Restaurants never - even high-end ones (which might be surprising, but high-end restaurants have more-expensive to produce menus) - never have enough menus. Owners skimp on printing menus because they're as penny-foolish as any other out-of-touch manager. At the worst places waiters hurry guests' orders, and hang around trying to intercept menus from each other. It creates a whole load of unnecessary stress: just make some more damn menus! Source: waited lots of tables in lots of restaurants.
- Salgat 3y agoI'm describing regular sit down restaurants. Everything about the restaurant is the same except ordering with the waiter is replaced with a webpage you order off of. The QR code even automatically enters your own table number since each table's QR code is unique. The PDF thing sounds super lazy, thankfully never come across that before.
- mulmen 3y agoI have only seen online ordering from a table as you describe at a couple of places. Maybe two times. Most QR codes I see link to a (often nightmarish) website or a PDF that would be suitable for printing a paper menu.