I live in a little backward town in the middle of nowhere and recently took a trip to San Francisco and I have to say this kind of thing was the biggest culture shock to me… I use my phone to text and look at memes, this is a bridge too far!
Guys the QR code in the image is an actual restraunt menu, the food on it looks delicious. Its making me hungry
I went to a restaurant in the middle of nowhere that had a QR code menu as default. None of the major cellphone carriers have service there and the only way to get cell coverage in the town is through a local cell carrier. I was so confused as to why they decided that was the solution for their restaurant.
It’s a Brave New World, time to get used to it.
fuckin luddites i tell ya
Nah dawg, I’m a Dev. The websites for the menus are usually fucking aweful, and are, ironically enough, not optimized for mobile.
Usually you can request a physical menu, as to not look at the webdev gore.
That and it’s usually hosted off some slow ass, janky website where I hit refresh three times to get all the assets to load without timing out.
“Uhh, yes, I’ll have the 404 not found, dressing on the side, with a 504 gateway timeout, medium rare. Oh, and could we get a round of 500 internal server error for the table, please?”
I think my real complaint is that I’m using my data to pay them more money for services they should already be offering customers. It feels like we might as well end with a step-by-step self-cooking restaurant and we pay them to cook the food ourselves.
If they design the online menu well, I’m all for it. In theory, an online only menu should improve the quality of the menu, by making it much easier to keep it up to date (eg, there should never be an “ask your server what the soup of the day is” in an online menu – update that you lazy schmucks) and it’s also easier for them to have pictures.
The fact that not every food item has pictures drives me crazy. Show me what the dang food looks like. Unless it’s something you never sell, it’s so dang easy to get a picture when someone orders it. I don’t want a fake picture anyway; I want the pictures to be representative of how it will really look. With physical menus, it’s understandable because printing is so expensive and pictures would make the menu extra long. Online menus don’t have that issue or excuse.
But yeah, if their online menu is gonna be a mediocre PDF copy of their former print menus clearly designed for 8x11 or whatever, it’s a downright worse experience using a digital menu. That’s the case for a shocking number of restaurants I’ve been at. You’d think mobile devices are some new fangled fad or something, cause they sure don’t think mobile is something someone will view their menu on.
