But I am a Boomer ... so does my up vote count?

I do have a phone but a very small data allowance (I use it for maps) and not wasting it on menus!

I don't even have a smartphone. The max., what my phone is capable, beside the basic functions, is to be alarm clock, take some not-so-good-photos and recording. So, all restaurants and other places lost me, what operates with this shít.

If I have to install some data mining app to order, I’ll just go somewhere else.

I have been fortunate I guess. I've never run into a QR code that was not an "also". As in I could get a printed menu if I asked. Some were disposable printed paper versions (Covid safety) but you didn't have to use your phone if you didn't want to. I'm not a big fan to trying to scroll a whole menu via my relatively small screen.

Damn scan codes, I agee

I was in that same boat until I realized how dirty and disgusting the menus were in the restaurant I worked at.

I like paper menus because I can leave my fingers on potential choices and continue reading through. At the end, I can compare my choices. Can't leave a finger while scrolling, and can't highlight more than one separate word / phrase on a phone.

Just like Mc Donald's nowadays has a touch screen menu and you have to pay by card ( In Belgium) then wait till they call the number on your ticket. I don't hear very well so half the time I end up wit a cold order or plain missing it!

Places like that need long lines of waiting customers, who sit and then leave after being told to use a menu from a scanned QR code with their phone. Businesses change policies in the face of declining revenue.

How are people with poor eyesight ( thst is not wholly corrected with glasses) suppose to do this. I have hard enough time with physical menu, no way i am reading one on phone. PS now you know why my typing is so poor. I am off by one letter due to astigmatism.

This is a thing??? Wow . Not for me

..... Receiving adds from that pub in Ljubljana several months later. In Slovene.

Yeah, I think QR codes are a waste of time. The last time I tried to use one, it wanted me to set up an acct before moving forward. Yeah, I said forget that!! Also, it makes me really mad that they're putting QR codes right next to bar codes on food/drink products. I work at a self-checkout at a grocery store and people will ring up stuff and it'll say not on file. I tell them to cover up the QR code and scan the barcode. The item rings up fine then 😒

Hahahahahaa.. I'm with you on this one x

This one is so true. Screw the code! I don’t wNt your menu on my phone!!

I am also not getting out of my damn chair to scan a QR code on my tv

And then they expect a huge tip from you even though you only said 5-7 words to me the entire time. Zero real time conversations happen anymore.

AMEN!

I still ask for a physical menu & then pretend I have no concept of QR codes. I also dye my hair grey(though not due to QR codes. It’s just my thing). They don’t bother to press the issue. They just get me a menu. 🤣

My family and I stopped eating out in 2020 during the pandemic so I didn't know this was a thing. Since hearing about it my hubby and I agree that should we end up some place that does this we are immediately leaving. A for sure no for us!

It's amazing how a paper menu appears when we say we do not have cell phones. (We don't.) I just smile and say, rather loudly and clearly, "I'm covered under the Americans for disabilites act (which I am), so are you saying a lawsuit is in your future?" Presto chango, a menu appears. There is no law that says you must have one. While they might be useful for some things, we're not sure anybody looks that much happier.

It's not a good business practice to require the customer to have anything but money.

I don't have a phone so it would be impossible for me to do that...... I even have to park in a private car park that takes cash as over here you pay by an app on the phone for public parking lol

You do realize that before long there will be NO people in the restaurant to serve you, right?

Yeah, I wouldn’t be eating there. Too fancified for me.

I find that very unfair to those who do not have cellphones or cellphones with screens and internet. Even at the bus stops, here, the route schedules have been replaced with QR codes.

I wouldn't mind if it actually pulled up a menu, instead of their Facebook page. I don't have Facebook.

I had a phone without a bar code scanner for a while. It's so annoying when everything needs a bar code! JUST GIVE US THE PHYSICAL PAPER

Run, dont walk to the nearest exit if any place requires or even gently pushes for you to scan or download their app. We don't need more apps we need productive kind service. Keep your life grounded and simple.

Well depends usually its not a very high class restaurant where ordering like this is normal. So for me it's no biggie. I know up front what I'm spending and with short staffing situation in restaurants I get that they are implementing these.

I actually don’t care. At least that way the menu is always in mint condition

Looking at a menu on your phone is annoying

I actually like it: 1. Everyone has the up-to-date (including specials) menu whenever they want. 2. There are (non-faded) pictures! 3. Order when you want, no pressure, no waiters to wave over or ask to come back. 4. Pay immediately. No surprises, no one to stare at you when you decide what to tip. 4. Get order right and fast.

I'm the opposite on this one. I'd rather only touch my own phone instead of a menu that's been touched by the masses...every place I've been have also offered 'real life' menus for anyone more comfortable with that option. It just seems more sanitary, less wasteful and can be updated throughout the day based on sales,quantity etc.