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Full mobile ordering is great, but there’s lots of places that have the worst of both worlds: a QR code linking to a digital menu, but still take orders with th
by chrisdalke 3y ago
Full mobile ordering is great, but there’s lots of places that have the worst of both worlds: a QR code linking to a digital menu, but still take orders with the waiter
- rahimnathwani 3y agoYeah bonus points if the digital menu is a regular-sized PDF, meaning anyone over 20 has to pan and zoom.
- dakial1 3y agoQR. code that takes you to a Google Drive PDF with a scan of the printed menu.
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- davchana 3y agoTo top that, that QR code is distorted before printed, like rectangle. Happened to me in central valley.
- solardev 3y agoWas it still scannable? I thought they had perspective correction built in, given that any picture you take of one will always have some distortion? edit: 2022 discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36174607 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36174607
- davchana 3y agoNo, it did not scan. They did not have any url listed below. I was using Barcode Scanner from zxing. I snapped a photo, edited, and then scanned.
- FooBarBizBazz 3y agoFWIW, I vote heavily against full mobile ordering. The more I have to do on my phone the worse it is. Things that admittedly make this worse: - Using an older phone. - Not saving credit cards to your phone. It's just slow and clunky, and -- it feels like work. I don't want to file a JIRA ticket to get my appetizer. I don't want to fill out a form. I just want to sit down and tell somebody. Another way to look at this is that it's the "self checkout" version of dining out. Self checkout is slow, because it's different at every store, and you will never be as fast as a cashier who has some practice with their particular system. Same deal here.
- EasyMark 3y agoYeah I do like wait staff, eating out is a bit of a ritual for me, I do tend to go to smaller family owned establishments.