I love QR Code menus, especially when you can order through them.
But I hate when restaurants force them on you. Just give me the fucking choice so that everyone can order in the way they prefer.
Yeah but they can’t data track you through a paper menu, and a company choosing to lose revenue?? impossible
The boomers are right about this one
Meh. I didn’t like it at first because it was unfamiliar, but I really don’t see anything wrong with it, especially if you can order and pay directly from your phone instead of waiting for a server to show up.
Qr codes can be malucious. Doesnt take a genius to swap one that compromises your phone while still tunneling to the menu so no one is suspicious.
if you can get a qr code on a current day phone that can auto install an app or tunnel, there are further issues at hand. the most a qr code might be able to do is redirect you to a website where it might try to prompt you to do something stupid with the phone.
I likely wont be fooled but i am not the target demographic to visit many bars or restaurants.
Soms people are easily fooled, shady people will exploit this.
Industries will also exploit this, if you’re on your phone anyway can easily serve you a form request for private information as well as picking up phone details trough their website already, over time i would not be surprised if the menu gets personalized in price and content to make sure they get the most they can.
I prefer the menu on my phone. I can’t be the only one
While I think your opinion is vile, detestable, loathsome, abominable, and evil, I don’t understand why you’re being down voted.
Thank you for sharing your abhorrent, outrageous, and revolting opinion as it does contribute something meaningful to the discussion.
I had some friends in town and we went to a place that made us use the qr code for the menu and had to order directly from the app and pay (and tip).
Same, but it was so busy that nobody at the table could load the menu; The restaurant’s tiny little closet server was essentially DDOS’ed. So the waiter had to verbally list the entire menu in the noisy restaurant.
Even worse, it was a restaurant where you order in rounds (Korean BBQ.) So every time the waiter came back to see what we wanted next, they had to list everything off again. By the third round, he just had a handwritten list he was handing to the table.
I love tech. But there are some things that just don’t need to be replaced by tech. And the fact that the restaurant didn’t even have any paper menus as a backup was jarring.
I love tech. But there are some things that just don’t need to be replaced by tech.
Dude. That resonated with me
I love how you can easily assume he’s French
I love how lady liberty is crying in all of these
Did anyone check what that qr code in the image points to?
Doesn’t seem to be valid.
Missed opportunity 😑
Should have been a link to their own website to the page where this picture was uploaded.
That would be so meta.
Or a link to their facebook page. Also meta.
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Scan QR code
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Hello would you like to let cookies into your life?
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Time to navigate the decline cookies menu
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Tap menu button/item
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Goto 2
You forgot:
1½. Install our app. 2½. Give us your email and link to your socials. 3½. Install our app. 3⅔. Install our app. 4½. Push notification? Push notifications. 5½. Install our app.
I feel that making a flowchart of this could lead to new labyrinth designs!
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How much did you tip the waiters?
At that point what services should they be tipped for?
Walked all the way to your table with a plate!
I don’t know, man, I always hate political cartoons that feel the need to label everything. Like, is that necessary?
It’s not necessary. That is why this cartoon has them.
This artist makes cartoons that are parodies of over-labelled political cartoons. He satirizes by imitating his target’s crappy form.
also if youre reading this and if you’re not familiar with his work - the statue of liberty crying is in practically every cartoon as well.
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
It’s a genuine security risk.
Menus aren’t killing the environment either.
Yeah, I get wanting to not reprint menus every time something changes, but there are ways to do that which are more convenient and accessible than “scan a QR code to go to a random website and pray you have working internet access and also the site is working and up to date.” Y’know, like a damn menu board on the wall. Whiteboard/chalkboard even!
This is my personal preference, a place I used to go a lot had a black board across one whole wall and the menu was hand written on it. The menu changed frequently and it was often full of flourish and creativity from some employee.
If you’re using these links as restaurant menus as opposed to ordering platforms (this is how I use them, and how this post & other commenters seem to be presenting the concept) that’s kind of limited to a risk of straight up being phished in a situation where you don’t really have any reason to hand over your information.
In a pub/bar setting it’s helpful to know what’s available at the bar before I’m standing at it, especially if I’m buying a round. That is to say it generally lowers the bar to menu availability, not raise it. Because before the pub/bar would simply have no table menu and you’d figure out what you wanted by asking or looking at the taps
There are clickless exploits and other methods that don’t require you to enter information, nevermind that nearly all of these menus have ordering and payment available through them and mimicking websites is fairly simple.
QR codes cannot be trusted just like links from unknown sources cannot be trusted.
I think you’ll find there isn’t an Android or iPhone on the market today vulnerable to SQL injection or XSS etc via scanning a QR code. You’re talking about device vulnerabilities that get patched and it’s equally possible to encounter these exploits with plaintext URLs
If the restaurant doesn’t have a good enough reputation that I couldn’t trust the QR they provided (which displays the URL so I can inspect it before launching the web browser), I also wouldn’t want to trust my health to eating there.
It isn’t like some random thing you found on the sidewalk.
You’re talking about device vulnerabilities that get patched
Patching out zero days takes time.
it’s equally possible to encounter these exploits with plaintext URLs
Yes which is why I clearly stated that following URLs from any unknown sources carries risk.
The difference is that due to menus being a point of payment they have a greater incentive for abuse.
So we shouldn’t use smartphone features if they could potentially have exploits? With this logic you shouldn’t have a phone.
We shouldn’t replace perfectly good solutions with unreliable, cumbersome, insecure, annoying shitty tech just because.
