It would be one thing if the QR code URL redirected to the restaurant's webpage with an HTML menu (even a PDF menu, as long as it's within an obviously restaura

It would be one thing if the QR code URL redirected to the restaurant's webpage with an HTML menu (even a PDF menu, as long as it's within an obviously restaurant-affiliated domain). The thing I found particularly obnoxious about restaurant QR codes was that the menu PDF would often be hosted on some random-ass site obfuscated via a URL shortener. So scanning a URL and immediately being prompted to open a PDF from a random domain is a big no-no for me. And frankly, I think it's dangerous to the world at large to normalize that kind of behavior, given how prone PDFs are to malware.