I get someone made a hilarious mistake.
But why would you not even test the code before gluing them to all the tables?
Or before sending the code to be etched?
Might have been a temporary link (e.g., shortened URL) that passed tests initially but stopped working later on.
The browser says “localhost”, so it would have had to stop working by suddenly redirecting to localhost…
I created a QR generator website and you have no idea. I get emails from people saying they’ve printed the codes before discovering it goes to the wrong place (sometimes even to my own site!) and if I can fix it. No… check your codes before they go to print!
The funniest one I had caused me to get a huge spike of traffic on Christmas. It was so weird and left me clueless for weeks, until I got an email from somebody wishing to cancel a subscription.
I don’t sell subscriptions or anything at all!
Turns out somebody printed a QR code into a smartwatch instruction booklet that went straight to my site… The ad revenue was insane tho!
I think since its not so much btoken as pointing to a local file, I think they may have tested it on the one device they made it, so it worked…on that device.
They should have 100% tested it on other devices
Guess I’m showing my age then. Because the intended end use device is obviously a phone, I assume they used their phone to generate the qr, send it out to etch, and test the result. I can’t use my phone for shit like that. To me that is much more a real screen type of job (generating the qr code, generating the gcode in lightburn, etc) done on a computer, instead of a tablet/phone
Fuck I despise this menu bullshit. Give me a fucking menu.
They had to put a fucking law in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo mandating that restaurants had to have physical menus with the printed prices.
Give me a menu or I’ll tell you what I want and you can figure out how to put it in.
Either that or I walk.
Say “for $3.00” after your order, too. Fuck’em.
The only setting in which it’s actually helpful is when you go to an establishment that prioritizes drinks and the food is an afterthought (but you can still walk up to the bar and never use the QR code if you wanted).
They are, unfortunately, basically required in countries with high inflation where prices change so often that printed menus become unmanageable.
Or that want to charge people with expensive phones more than others.
I like when there’s a qr code that allows you to order and pay without needing to wait for a waiter. A qr code where it just links to a pdf of a menu that they didn’t want to print sucks.
If it’s printed on the inside of the menu so you can order quickly when it’s busy and help take some of the pressure off the servers and maybe get your food faster? That’s cool.
When it’s just a virtual menu so they can surge price in real time? Fuck those places.
PDF is at least kind of permanent. Most restaurants that have qr code set up usually have “surge pricing” that allows them to change their prices on a whim.
Not much of a challange to have a webserver point to another pdf when some condition is fulfilled.
You can just generate a PDF on demand. There isn’t much permanent about them at all.
Get mad at the problem and not the symptoms. I’ve been to dozens of restaurants with qr code menus and never seen one with surge pricing. Just be mad about surge pricing.
One of the nice things about having a foldable is that restaurant menus work wonderfully on them. Don’t have to worry about tiny text nor horizontal scrolling BS at all.
I once got a group message from my child’s teacher, screaming in excitement that “the event at school is live!”
The link points to 192.168.x.x.
Reading other comments I’m on the unpopular side, but I prefer QR menus to physical ones. We don’t have that surge price thing here, prices are pretty stable usually.
Printing several menus and having to replace them when they get dirty and stuff is such an unnecessary waste.
I’m not trying to touch a poorly laminated menu with the last guys spilled salsa on it that’s been wiped “clean” by the hostess with a rag in some bucket of water that’s been sitting there for god knows how long. Minutes before I touch my food.
If they’re following food safety laws, that bucket of water is likely bleach water or a similarly potent sanitizing agent…
If it were plain water, do you think they’d go through the effort to make a separate bucket of it? Also, if they’re not rinsing off crud before putting the rag back in the bucket, they’re doing it wrong.
Ok cool I’ll make sure the 16 year old girl doing her first job ever knows all about food safety laws. Restaurant operators are so famous for following food safety laws. Thanks for the big tip my guy.
Ever heard of a food handler’s permit? They’re literally required to understand it by law to even have the job in the first place…
