Remember when everyone thought QR codes on menus were just a 2020 thing?

I was at a diner in Austin last month, and they still had the paper menus with QR stickers on them. The waitress said they keep them because people like to look at the menu on their phone before they even sit down. It made me think, maybe this isn't a weird leftover from the pandemic, but just how we do things now. Has anyone else noticed places that have fully stuck with the digital menu?

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ericw9315d ago

Actually, those QR codes feel like a lazy fix that stuck around. A lot of places use them to cut costs on printing, not for customer convenience. It's frustrating when your phone is dead or the signal is bad, and you just want to read a normal menu. This shift to digital feels less like progress and more like businesses offloading a simple task onto us.

abby_martinez15d ago

Ugh, you hit on something that drives me nuts. It's like every company is trying to make their problem into my problem, you know? First it was checking my own groceries, now I'm the one looking up the menu and the prices. Feels like we're all just doing free work for them while they save a buck. Where does it stop?

ruby_wright15d ago

Yeah, I used to think it was just easier.