I love people’s absolute moral outrage about scanning a QR code. The same folks crying bc they have to ask for a plastic straws or wear a smal piece of cloth on their face in the grocery store.
The QR code would be so big you may as well just print a full menu instead. Here, for example, is a QR code containing the first two paragraphs of the US Declaration of Independence:
It would have to be much, much bigger if you want to include any pictures.
I dislike qr menus mostly cuz their websites suck and I often don’t carry a phone.
Edit: Let me just add that as a coder my dream is to one day be hired for a really expensive and complex project and to give them a solution that only uses paper.
Paper menus are just full color e ink large foldable ipads that don’t weight a thing and are cheap, and have a super accessible interface.
I’ve used exactly one QR coded menu that didn’t suck. Every other one was some manner of infuriating, top method being “every item takes up 75%+ of your phone’s screen and is all arranged vertically so it’s impossible to compare two items without scrolling through 3-40 screens worth”.
That last bit is the most annoying part. I can’t stand not being able to quickly skim and compare and since most restaurants have too many items on their menu at it is I find it especially annoying.
I wear masks, carry stainless steel straws so I don’t have to use paper ones. You want me to eat at your establishment more than once, don’t make me use my phone at meal time.
I love people’s absolute moral outrage about scanning a QR code. The same folks crying bc they have to ask for a plastic straws or wear a smal piece of cloth on their face in the grocery store.
It is a privacy/security issue, not moral. A QR eatery will probably not accept cash either.
The issue is because it connects with a website right? I wonder if there could be a way to encode the text of the menu in the QR code itself
The QR code would be huge lol
The largest can fit like 500-1k words, a restaurant menu could be less than that I think
Yes web site is the issue.
Cannot embed menu instead because the QR code is a URL.
Why does QR code have to be URL only
Mostly because otherwise you’d need an app that knows how to read and display the data
oh, I don’t use my phone much, assumed they should be able to show some kind of plaintext from a QR code by default
You can. I’ve encoded text in QR codes using both an android app and a desktop program.
The QR code would be so big you may as well just print a full menu instead. Here, for example, is a QR code containing the first two paragraphs of the US Declaration of Independence:
It would have to be much, much bigger if you want to include any pictures.
Still seems much better than linking to a website.
When it is that big you may as well print a conventional menu rather than QR code.
Only if you’re giving everyone a copy, could be a big central printout, screen or projector.
I dislike qr menus mostly cuz their websites suck and I often don’t carry a phone.
Edit: Let me just add that as a coder my dream is to one day be hired for a really expensive and complex project and to give them a solution that only uses paper.
Paper menus are just full color e ink large foldable ipads that don’t weight a thing and are cheap, and have a super accessible interface.
I’ve used exactly one QR coded menu that didn’t suck. Every other one was some manner of infuriating, top method being “every item takes up 75%+ of your phone’s screen and is all arranged vertically so it’s impossible to compare two items without scrolling through 3-40 screens worth”.
That last bit is the most annoying part. I can’t stand not being able to quickly skim and compare and since most restaurants have too many items on their menu at it is I find it especially annoying.
I wear masks, carry stainless steel straws so I don’t have to use paper ones. You want me to eat at your establishment more than once, don’t make me use my phone at meal time.