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.
This, but unironically
The boomers are right about this one
I prefer the menu on my phone. I can't be the only one
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.
Demonic behavior
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.
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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
Forgot ads
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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Ben garrison is being called out
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.
Ate the onion?
Yeah I didn't realize that was the part that was being satirized.
It’s satire of political cartoons/right wing views.
Chomp
Just been in a restaurant in France that thought a tablet would be a good idea for a menu. Fucking dimwits hadn't switched off the screen sleep though, and you had to tap it to wake it every thirty seconds
Plus it was an iPad, which only pensioners use, it was fucking awful
That sounds like an entirely unpleasant experience.
Reading your post inspired me to write a wryly informative yet droll linguistic comment for your edification and enjoyment (and my own entertainment). However my comment may strike you, in any case, I am certain it is entirely unrelated to the miserable experience you describe in your comment, as well as the content of the original post. Ready? Ok.
At face value, the message is entirely clear from what you've written. The restaurant owners required you to use a tablet to browse the menu items they have on offer, and that tablet had a particularly poor user experience.
However, I found your last sentence quite ambiguous, and interestingly so:
...it was an iPad which only pensioners use,...
I see at least three interpretations of this sentence fragment:
- iPads, as a category in general, are devices used by pensioners and no one else. (Note: my guess is that this is what you actually meant)
- This particular iPad had specific features that indicated all preceding users were pensioners. You don't mention any of these features, but perhaps there were fingerprints of denture glue on the screen, or a distinct odor of moth balls.
- The particular iPad was restricted for use by pensioners only and no others, in which case you've broken the law and the Police Nationale are on their way. The laws are strict in France, I don't make the rules.
Okay, yes yes, readings 2 and 3 are hyperbolic; however, this was intentional, partially for the lolz, but also to convey a sense of saliency for the respective interpretations.
The internet comment section is such an interesting treasure trove of human language. See, in typical language use (by typical, I specifically mean how language evolved, as humans in the bush, making sounds at each other around a fire), there are a multitude of cues that go beyond the simple string of words, collectively referred to as "pragmatics." These are nonverbal cues like body language and facial expression, but also verbal cues like prosody, intonation, and stress. There are also "discourse" level aspects, like how we can follow the overall point of a speaker. (As an example of discourse, I told you up front that my comment would be somewhat amusing and educational, and hopefully I have delivered that to you - if I haven't, well it's still the discourse level pragmatics that underlie your feeling of annoyance or disappointment.)
Another pragmatic element is shared knowledge. Off the bat, we both have some fluency in English, but pragmatically (ha, see what I did there?), that's a given, but it goes further than that. Friends and family have a history of shared experiences. On the Internet, well we're both Lemmings, so we likely have an aptitude for technology, as well as other niche hobbies or interests. Shared knowledge is more or less anything that one speaker can assume about another on the basis of experience or overt group membership.
This is what is so interesting about Internet comments though - the pragmatics of language are often missing! This sentence might have been 100% clear if we had more shared knowledge. Perhaps all that was needed was hearing you say it, which would have carried prosody and stress.
Anyway, I hope you learned something interesting.
Was the food good at least?
At whom is this aimed at?
The Kelly cartoons are done by a progressive pretending to be a conservative. The Onion often gets hate letters from progressives who think it's genuinely conservative, and more glowing letters from conservatives who think the same.
Taking into account that this is the Onion, it's probably aimed at at everyone like the good ol' days.
People who enjoy mocking political cartoons.
God I hate the way this dude draws joints on people, elbows and shoulders are jutting out way too much and the people look like weird bony aliens wearing human skins that don’t fit right
Those are crucial features of political cartoons
Wow, the onion is on point these days. I don't know how they can produce satire in today's America.
Ywait this is a satire?
I love how lady liberty is crying in all of these
Don't forget Today's No-good Teens.
Had anyone gotten the code to work?
Closest thing I got was a Google image search near match for an xvideos qr
its not a real qr code,
there is no timing pattern between the 3 big squares.there has to be a black and white alternating pattern between the inner corners of the three squares, that afaik is used to determine the size of pixels while scanning.
there has to be a black and white alternating pattern between the inner corners of the three squares, that afaik is used to determine the size of pixels while scanning.
Huh. TIL.
Doesn't appear to be a valid qr code. Couldn't get Binary Eye to read it.
Just put it up on the wall if you're going to use a QR code.
At least as a backup. Sites break, internet goes down, occasionally people don't have their phones, so on. Or maybe I'm just sick of looking at my damn phone.
Right. We go out to eat to get away from the trappings of our mundane lives. Plus it's just chintzy.
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’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!
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
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.
Nosh-inal 🥸
I wish restaurants could allow web app based ordering if I just want to get a refill on drinks, ketchup etc. without bothering a person. If I can order things without servers that’d be great as long as a server is available to answer questions if needed.
I'm gonna start using a nokia brick again if this shit starts getting normalized. You are never interacting with my phone. Take my money, give me your shitty craft burger abd fuck off.
We have a rule: Phones stay in pockets/handbags while dining/going out and in flight mode. I also do not install apps on my phone, especially not in a hurry and without checking the app's reviews and taking my time to decide what rights the app should have etc. They can give me a tablet to make my order if they don't want to print menus.
They all have print menus. They have to be prepared for phoneless people and melodramatic boomers.
We have both in our guesthouse, some people like spending more time working in cafe but can't have them hoarding the menu for hours at end.
QR is convenient to place around a bigger property. People avoiding tech can simply enjoy walking to the outdoor or indoor seating area for a traditional experience.
If you need to put text on people's shirts then it's a bad comic
Well, it’s The Onion, so I don’t think making a good comic was their goal.
Unless you are doing it ironically to diss that one comic artist
I thought it was one of theirs at first with all the explanitory labels everwhere but the art was too competent
I’ve heard quieter whooshes at the airport
