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Earlier, when restaurants wanted to increase prices, they had to reprint all their menus. So there was at least a small barrier to jacking up prices. Now, with
by elevatedastalt 3y ago
Earlier, when restaurants wanted to increase prices, they had to reprint all their menus. So there was at least a small barrier to jacking up prices.
Now, with online menus, they can basically slowly keep increasing prices any time without any cost to them. No wonder they love it!
The worst thing is most of them don't even have actual responsive websites. It's just a literal PDF download that you now have to keep panning left right on a tiny screen.
- ryandrake 3y ago> The worst thing is most of them don't even have actual responsive websites. It's just a literal PDF download that you now have to keep panning left right on a tiny screen. I could almost get into it if it were a large screen tablet mounted at the table, with a great UI, where you just tap, tap, tap out your order, hit submit, and poof your drinks and food arrive. Pop in your credit card to pay, and off you go! At least make good use of the digital user interface. Reduce inefficiencies like the wait staff having to make dozens of trips to collect your drink order, come back, take your meal order, come back, take your credit card, return your credit card. But, no, they digitized the only part of the restaurant that already was working pretty efficiently in physical form.
- walteweiss 3y agoThat’s exactly the experience with McDonalds here in Ukraine. Mind blowing how modern it is.
- Incipient 3y agoI always wonder about entering credit card details on those random self-order ipads...
- MrMember 3y agoI've seen videos of exactly this at restaurants in Japan. In some of them your food even arrives via tableside conveyor belts.
- FractalHQ 3y agoSome all-you-can-eat sushi spots in Toronto have these too!