• sock@lemmy.world
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        or spend like 30 minutes making a decent website i swear online menus are the most asinine thing at every restaurant.

        i don’t even require a menu just give me a list with name, price, and ingredients im good. maybe a touch of heirarchy but like then im good.

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      Yeah sorry, if I can view the menu from my phone instead of touching a menu that 6000 other people have touched, without having to deal with either the server taking it away or it being in the way on my table, I don’t see why I would want or need an actual physical menu

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          I don’t think you should “have to”. I think physical menus should always be available. But if both are available, I certainly think the digital is superior in every way

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    I’ve been to a dine-in movie theater that had QR codes for the menu. Problem is, I typically don’t bring my phone to a movie AND since you can order during the movie, who wants people turning their phones on to read a menu?

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    What drives me up the wall is when it just links to a scanned image of the menu they used to have, so instead of a full sized menu, you have to pinch and zoom and swipe around on your phone. What’s the fucking point? I went to one and the menu was FOUR PAGES LONG like that! If I hadn’t been promising my daughter I’d take her, I would have walked out.

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    Doubly egregious when you have one of those annoying GDPR windows that make opting out a hassle just to view the menu. I’ve left restaurants over this.

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      for bonus points, the website uses 15 web frameworks and you have to click your way to a gallery of jpeg images for every page of the menu (obviously incompatible with half the mobile browsers so none of this even attempts to render).

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        Not if they don’t track you. As far as I understand the fabled cookie law, you only need to have that notice if you’re using cookies in a way that’s not strictly necessary for the site’s functionality.

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    I went to a restaurant that had the barcode menu. I prefer a physical menu, but fine whatever. The problem was, there was no reception inside the restaurant, and you couldn’t connect to their wifi for whatever reason.

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      This happened to me recently as well, but while traveling when I was low on data. Like ok, I will use your stupid QR code menu, but then you better provide free functional wifi.

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    I don’t know why but the QR menus just piss me off in a service restaurant. I won’t use em (been bailed out by a date more than once).

    For a counter place where they are just slinging me the food? Ok I guess. But if we’re out paying for a dinner that’ll hopefully lead to nookie, phones should be the last thing on the table.

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    Am I the only one that doesn’t mind these? You’re all acting like you’re being asked to murder somebody.

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      that I have had experiences with these websites having trackers and advertisements on the menu sites yes

      Eta also what if my battery is dead or I got shit connection

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    I am fine with it but I feel they should have alternatives. Some people don 't have a device, connection. Or have issues with using technology for whatever reason, being old, incapacitated, etc.