• driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br
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      17 days ago

      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.

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      17 days ago

      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.

    • Lenny@lemmy.zip
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      17 days ago

      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).

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        They are, unfortunately, basically required in countries with high inflation where prices change so often that printed menus become unmanageable.

    • evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world
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      17 days ago

      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.

      • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        17 days ago

        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.

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          17 days ago

          Not much of a challange to have a webserver point to another pdf when some condition is fulfilled.

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          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.

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        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.

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      17 days ago

      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.