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Dr Abeba Birhane@abeba.bsky.social |
no, I don't want to scan a qr code or download an app to order food at your restaurant/cafe... really don't want to have to deal with cookies and trackers, especially not when I'm tired and grumpy. just give me the goddammed physical menu
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Summerium-Kalimium
@summerium-kalimium.bsky.social
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Oh yeah, the last (for now) episode of Always Sunny involved that. Picking the CEOs beating heart out of their chest and eating it is a completely normal reaction to this App thing
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Norm - The Bookstore On Pluto
@normtbop.bsky.social
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Oh and then those restaurant websites that won't let you just see a friggin' menu, you can only "start an order" and THEN see a menu. Nope, I just leave the website.
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Ryan Shirlow
@ryanshirlow.bsky.social
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increasingly they put all the allergen stuff into a massive online spreadsheet and try and offload all the risk back onto you
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Lily Respair
@lilyrespair.bsky.social
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💯
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Onno Benschop
@owh.bsky.social
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My city introduced new street parking meters that appear to require an app to use. Not a fan.
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james
@zagreish.bsky.social
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I went to a restaurant recently that only had a QR Code. I asked for a paper menu. They said I could have one but it would be out of date. “Oh.. well.. no thank you then…”
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@jbooksy.bsky.social
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100%
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Michael R Lambert
@mrl53.bsky.social
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Hope it’s a clean menu.
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Hampton
@hamptonstevens.bsky.social
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One is reminded...
youtu.be/xPq0-8dyl8I?...
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Jacque she/they
@subversivecynic.bsky.social
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I like that it's an option. Some places are suuuuuuper sketch when it comes to cleaning menus between customers. But I prefer a tangible menu most of the time for all those reasons
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Spoons🥄🕊️
@spoonsor.bsky.social
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Nothing worse than asking for the menu of not to be directed to a shittily taped QR code
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catladie
@catladie.bsky.social
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Menu QR codes seem to have sparked a huge angry backlash that other areas using them have not.
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@nancydancer.bsky.social
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100%
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__________
@jenbren.bsky.social
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I am about to snap one of these days with the fucking cookies
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Ash✨️
@accelastar.bsky.social
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My opsec threat model has me reeling every time an outdoor seated restaurant wants me to scan a random qr code printed on a regular sheet of copy paper slipped into a plastic stand in a largely unmonitored area of the patio
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G1Yang2001
@g1yang2001.bsky.social
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Not to mention, but what about people who don't have smart phones like the elderly or people who left their phones at home? How are they going to scan a QR code if they don't have a phone with them? Are they just gonna shoot beams from their eyes and scan it like they're a Transformer?
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SurlyITJesus
@surlyitjesus.bsky.social
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This is why I use duck duck go for my browser
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Mushboom
@mushboom.bsky.social
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I have walked out of restaurants without ordering anything because of this. I'm with the boomers on this one 100%
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Dave Nelsen
@thegrammargeek.bsky.social
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To each their own, but I’ll take a QR code menu over a physical menu any day of the week. Let me order my food on my phone too. The less human interaction, the better. I eat out to avoid cooking, not for the social experience.
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Hylen S
@hylen26.bsky.social
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Okay, Boomer. 😉
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Pellechs
@pellechs.bsky.social
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Also! (And this is like, concern number 4…) I often have to look up that ingredient to see if it is meat or not! I want to see if you have any beers I have not tried! I hate flipping between 2 web pages and an app for this!!
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Claudio Cicali
@caludio.social
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Digital-only menu allow the restaurant to raise the prices with a click. That's why they love them so much.
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Pam Portland, novelist and blogger
@pamportlandwriter.bsky.social
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We had a conversation about this recently and I do think that no one in any restaurant cleans those slimy menues before they hand them to me, and they feel like it.
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Go Deep, I'll Look for You
@godeep.bsky.social
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Hell, put it on a freaking blackboard with chalk. And don’t make me stand at the counter to order, pick up my own food & tote to the table & then have the gall to ask ME for a tip, asshole.
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Little Leatherboy
@jasonnewman.bsky.social
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No your app can not have access to my location "Continue as guest" every time
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Wozza B
@wozzabee.bsky.social
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I was in a hipster cafe-bar in Bergamo a couple of years ago, I asked for the menu and was given a tiny square of paper with a QR code on it. I thought he was giving me a tab of acid.
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Bethany Doolin
@bethanydoolin.bsky.social
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Agreed.
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power to the ice pick (Liz)
@pluplubasch.bsky.social
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The most frustrating thing I’ve run into with a QR code was seeds!! Fuck you write it in the back off the packet. wtf
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Tortoiseshel
@tortoiseshel.bsky.social
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Went to a restaurant with family a while back that did this. My grandparents don't even have smartphones, so we asked for physical menus. We waited ten minutes, nothing. Eventually I just got up and plucked some from behind the host's little podium near the entrance myself. Awful experience.
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Alex Kies
@kybillsmafia.bsky.social
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I’m sure others have said it but it’s also incredibly elitist to assume that everyone who dines in a restaurant has access to a smartphone.
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✝️♈️ Nicole Archer 🌈
@tvnicole.bsky.social
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The amount of time it takes to scan and download I could have a nice conversation with my server and gotten my order in. Lack of human contact is not a good thing.
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✝️♈️ Nicole Archer 🌈
@tvnicole.bsky.social
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💯
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@electricpolecat.bsky.social
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100% agree, there are a few places here in Liverpool that do that. I avoid them like the plague.
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Tom (kid codger) O'Neill
@doctecazoid.bsky.social
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This is why I have one phone browser (Firefox) set to clear cache on exit. I scan the QR code, copy the URL, bring up Firefox, open the URL there, place my order with the server, then close Firefox. It's a few extra steps, but it cuts off tracking and I don't get germs from physical menus.
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alexandxor
@alexandxor.bsky.social
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"can you bring me a phone"
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@richhaussmann.bsky.social
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Even if I'm game for a QR Code menu, improperly formatted PDF menus take me back out again. If someone is forcing a PDF menu, make it flow so it can be seen (with a readable font) on a normal phone. I don't want to flit around a giant menu landscape.
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Orion Kidder
@orionkidder.bsky.social
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It's a great way to twiddle with prices, too. You look up the menu, it looks up you, and an algorithm says you'll pay an extra $4.57 without noticing.
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What time is it? Time to organize
@wileymacgyver.bsky.social
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hey restaurant, shut the fuck up and lemme order a beer. get this nerd shit out of my face. "Scan the QR code to see the menu" do you even hear yourself?
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Norma Jane
@normajane.bsky.social
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Perfect response as it isn’t ignorant boomer-ism, it’s savvy online security.
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Max Oakland
@maxoakland.bsky.social
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Yes to that
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dmark
@dmark.bsky.social
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Seriously
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Rachel Esselle
@rachelsl.bsky.social
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I am so glad I am not the only one. I get so frustrated dealing with all that when a physical menu is SO simple and efficient.
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Misanthropic Humanitarian
@mindymayhem.bsky.social
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I got so pissed off at a grocery store, offering bigger discounts on items if I have their app. "Digital coupon"? How about I just never fucking shop here again, instead?
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Misanthropic Humanitarian
@mindymayhem.bsky.social
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And while we're at it, fuck off with the LED screen menus that change around.
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Ron Hebshie
@ronthinkmedia.bsky.social
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Thank you!!! 👍🏼👍🏼
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Mike M
@mikem51.bsky.social
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So right it’s really annoying. Strangely they always find a menu if I say I’m leaving.
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evilforce ✶⋆.˚
@evilforce.bsky.social
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thinking about the last time i went out with friends to a place that had both physical and digital menus. they hadn't even included the ingredients of each burger on the digital menu, so you had no idea what u were getting. had to check the physical menu to know what to order
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Mel
@melsf.bsky.social
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Totally agree
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Miles
@milestoowild.bsky.social
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QR code menus are the one thing from the height of pandemic-related restrictions that should have been entirely left behind.
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Frankie F. Funk
@frankieffunk.bsky.social
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Half the time the restaurant is too dark and the font too small and I have to take a picture with my phone so I can zoom in and read it anyway.
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Professor Furious
@professorfurious.bsky.social
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"What business are you in? Is it the prepared food business?"
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Tommy
@tommyg.bsky.social
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I am with you 100% on this
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Chris Lawton
@cflfanuk.bsky.social
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Not a boomer, and they inevitbaly end up having to take my order anyway because half of things won't download to my phone and it all goes horribly wrong. Also, an app often won't let me say, 'Can I have this with item a swapped out for item b?' in a way a human can and will.
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Bill
@segfahlt.bsky.social
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So on board with you on this. To the point that if a restaurant doesn't have a menu, they don't get my business. I will get up and walk out.
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JJ is tired
@jjofbc.bsky.social
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it's really not a lot to ask. besides half the time the codes are worn down and don't work, and like, not everyone is carrying a fully charged cell phone at all times. I don't see the resistance to just handing out a paper menu
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Dr Abeba Birhane
@abeba.bsky.social
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the most frustrating thing that makes refusing to use qr code/download app is the absolute lack of awareness on how the whole endeavour of this digitisation/automation is all about data harvesting (& surveillance by extension)
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