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> On your smartphone? I'm not talking about looking at a menu from home, I'm talking about ordering at the table. Yes, and so am I. If I'm feeling like chicken
by ixwt 2y ago
> On your smartphone? I'm not talking about looking at a menu from home, I'm talking about ordering at the table.
Yes, and so am I. If I'm feeling like chicken, it'd be easy to Ctrl+F (or "Find in page" if you want to be specific about the phone function) to look for chicken.
> I don't think finding what you want on such a short menu is particularly problematic.
It generally isn't that bad, but it was a quick off the dome example that comes up particularly in physical documents vs. electronic documents. Some more specific restaurant examples might be to filter out specific allergens or preferences out of dishes: dairy free, gluten free, vegetarian, vegan, etc. Make a smaller menu for people that can't or won't have particular things, without having to print those menus.
> Regardless, my experience with online-only menus and/or ordering when I'm sitting at the table has been nothing but horrible.
The worst one I had was a restaurant that was a bit outside of town that had poor cell reception. I've never personally had many issues with using my phone except poor signal.
- JohnFen 2y agoI should also mention my personal bias here: if I'm at a restaurant (or any other socializing event), the very last thing I want to be doing is interacting with a screen of any sort. I want to be present and enjoy the people I'm with, not using a computer. But that's just me, not a criticism of such systems per se. The ideal, I think, is for restaurants to have both. Printed menus for people like me (the advantage to the restaurant is that they won't lose me as a customer) as well as some sort of online thing for others who prefer that.