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>You visited for a few weeks and feel you have a good sample size of one of the largest countries in the world. Well, before I moved out of the US 2 years ago,

>You visited for a few weeks and feel you have a good sample size of one of the largest countries in the world. Well, before I moved out of the US 2 years ago, I lived there for over 40 years. Is that good enough for you? >Just one example restaurant from 2014: Interesting, that's Chili's. I stopped going there about 15 years ago because it was so lousy (and also seems to be absent on the east coast where I moved). Still, I've been to countless other places and didn't see such things outside of Panera. >You lived in and visited NY and assumed that's life for the rest of the US? Turns out the entire US isn't just NYC, for better and worse. There's only a small handful of cities besides NYC that actually have public transit systems, and NYC's is by far the largest and most famous, so I think it's a pretty important data point.

vel0city 2y ago
> the east coast where I moved > only a small handful of cities besides NYC that actually have public transit systems So yeah, a New Yorker that seems to think the whole US is their experiences in NYC. Thanks for clarifying that. Chili's is one restaurant chain I used as an example. Places from the scale of Chili's and McDonald's to mom and pop restaurants near me have such things. It's not just Chili's, but it's easy to find a news article talking about it around that time compared to finding an Atlantic article talking about a hole in the wall Italian restaurant in North Texas that offers mobile table side ordering. Once again, maybe your experiences aren't representative of the entire United States, so saying things like table side ordering is "unheard of in the US" or suggesting nowhere in the US can you do mobile based transit tickets. FFS I was in NEW YORK recently and used NFC-based mobile transit tickets! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.justride.suffolkny&hl=en_US https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.justride.s... > I think it's a pretty important data point. McDonalds is the most widely known and biggest US restaurants. I think it's a relevant data point. I guess all food in the US is like McDonalds. Hey what do you know they have table side mobile ordering. I guess all food in the US is like that, all restaurants have mobile ordering. Anything outside of that is just unheard of.

vel0city 2y ago

> the east coast where I moved > only a small handful of cities besides NYC that actually have public transit systems So yeah, a New Yorker that seems to think the whole US is their experiences in NYC. Thanks for clarifying that. Chili's is one restaurant chain I used as an example. Places from the scale of Chili's and McDonald's to mom and pop restaurants near me have such things. It's not just Chili's, but it's easy to find a news article talking about it around that time compared to finding an Atlantic article talking about a hole in the wall Italian restaurant in North Texas that offers mobile table side ordering. Once again, maybe your experiences aren't representative of the entire United States, so saying things like table side ordering is "unheard of in the US" or suggesting nowhere in the US can you do mobile based transit tickets. FFS I was in NEW YORK recently and used NFC-based mobile transit tickets! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.justride.suffolkny&hl=en_US https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.justride.s... > I think it's a pretty important data point. McDonalds is the most widely known and biggest US restaurants. I think it's a relevant data point. I guess all food in the US is like McDonalds. Hey what do you know they have table side mobile ordering. I guess all food in the US is like that, all restaurants have mobile ordering. Anything outside of that is just unheard of.