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At this point I'm ready to tip someone extra simply for having a menu. So many places have tried to hold on to the COVID menu QR code nonsense, and I just refus

At this point I'm ready to tip someone extra simply for having a menu. So many places have tried to hold on to the COVID menu QR code nonsense, and I just refuse.

15457345234 3y ago
Walked straight out of a place the other day for that reason. Could I have a menu please? Sir, you have to scan the QR code... I have a flip phone Oh... pause Oh... longer pause They literally had no solution to the problem
- Animats 3y ago
  You're not in their demographic. I mentioned previously a small Chinese restaurant in a mall in Silicon Valley which offered only a QR code. But it didn't lead to a display of the menu. It led to the onboarding funnel for a ordering app. Dine-in had been made a special case of food delivery, with a very short delivery distance. Terms of service and an EULA, of course. We declined to be "onboarded", and managed to order from the counter.
  - flir 3y ago
    > It led to the onboarding funnel for a ordering app. I wonder if they get a kickback.
- Biganon 3y ago
  Saw that the other day. The waiter literally let the patrons borrow his own phone so they could order. What if there had been more tables in the same situation? No idea.
  - jjjjj55555 3y ago
    This has happened to me on multiple occasions when traveling abroad where I didn't have cellular service. "Do you have wifi here?" Nope. "Can you just tell me what's on the menu?" Nope. Here, just use my cell phone.
  - lupire 3y ago
    Sort of related, in many parts of the world, thousands of people have the same Google account because when they buy an Android phone at the store, the vendor logs into the mandatory Google account.
    - 15457345234 3y ago
      That sounds apocryphal; android stores contacts in the google account by default. Any such account would have a million contacts.
JohnFen 3y ago
If a restaurant can't provide me with a real menu, then I can't know what I can order, so I leave.
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At this point I'm ready to tip someone extra simply for having a menu. So many places have tried to hold on to the COVID menu QR code nonsense, and I just refuse.

15457345234 3y ago

Walked straight out of a place the other day for that reason. Could I have a menu please? Sir, you have to scan the QR code... I have a flip phone Oh... pause Oh... longer pause They literally had no solution to the problem

Animats 3y ago
You're not in their demographic. I mentioned previously a small Chinese restaurant in a mall in Silicon Valley which offered only a QR code. But it didn't lead to a display of the menu. It led to the onboarding funnel for a ordering app. Dine-in had been made a special case of food delivery, with a very short delivery distance. Terms of service and an EULA, of course. We declined to be "onboarded", and managed to order from the counter.
- flir 3y ago
  > It led to the onboarding funnel for a ordering app. I wonder if they get a kickback.
Biganon 3y ago
Saw that the other day. The waiter literally let the patrons borrow his own phone so they could order. What if there had been more tables in the same situation? No idea.
- jjjjj55555 3y ago
  This has happened to me on multiple occasions when traveling abroad where I didn't have cellular service. "Do you have wifi here?" Nope. "Can you just tell me what's on the menu?" Nope. Here, just use my cell phone.
- lupire 3y ago
  Sort of related, in many parts of the world, thousands of people have the same Google account because when they buy an Android phone at the store, the vendor logs into the mandatory Google account.
  - 15457345234 3y ago
    That sounds apocryphal; android stores contacts in the google account by default. Any such account would have a million contacts.

JohnFen 3y ago

If a restaurant can't provide me with a real menu, then I can't know what I can order, so I leave.

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