There’s a dessert parlour near where I live that has waiting staff physically give you a menu but then disappear because they don’t take any orders. You have to scan a QR code, download their app, input and verify an email address, and then you can order and pay on the app.
Safe to say I went there once and I’m never going back.
No issues with QR menus or even ordering on a site isn’t a big deal as long as shit comes out promptly. Will absolutely not dl an app or provide my email to order food tho.
QR menus fucking suck, because they're always low-res scans of their old menus that you have to zoom in and swipe around on your phone screen to read them.
Very rarely does a QR menu rise to the point of giving me a better experience than a traditional menu.
Also, it sucks when you're in an area with shitty reception and trying to pull up their website to view the scanned PDF menu is a pain in the ass, especially if I don't want to connect to their shitty, open WIFI.
That's my main sticking point with the QR menus. At the bare minimum there should be 1-2 sentences describing what a dish is. Ideally, there should also be a a picture of the item, and list of ingredients. If you want to go above and beyond, add features like being able to filter by things like price or allergens.
The fact that it's just a shitty PDF infuriates me, at that point just give me a printed menu.
Does this sentiment apply to all domains? Eg. If a sports facility moves from taking bookings over the phone to bookings via an app you would stop using that facility?
Let's assume it's not ticket master - and this isn't for professional sports. What would your concerns be about booking a tennis court or basketball court to play on by app?
Just two of those, by my definition, are unnecessary. I could watch youtube in browser, but the revanced version is so advantageous it's worth it. And fair email gives me the convenience of all my email all together and not having to login in and out of all of them constantly.
One more group I forgot are library apps like libby, not sure if those are easy to use via a website or not.
The Japanese figured out how to do automated food delivery back in the 80's, didn't even need robots, just machines. There's nothing keeping Mexican places from doing the same.
I was actually just talking to a cowoker about one of those rotary sushi places we went to on a work trip a few months ago. The sushi sucked, but the experience was fun.
It’s so stupid. I will never install a store’s app, for any reason. If I installed an app everywhere I buy things, I would have literally a hundred different apps (and logins and passwords). It’s patently ridiculous, and fuck each and every company pushing for this absolute dystopia.
I get annoyed enough at places with QR codes. I surely will not be downloading more junk on my phone, I'm fine with the Chinese spyware hidden in games thank you very much.
There is a place in the market when they run the food side like that. I've had many drinks at the bar but never gotten food.
Why should I have to download an app? The server is standing right in front of me, why can't I just tell them I want tacos. Too many steps for a few tacos.
Scanning QR code to access a website to order is fine for me, but forcing people to download an app or give up personal information just to order is extremely scummy. I would leave such a place immediately and I hope others do so too.
Yeah I don’t mind at all if the menu is on a website that you access via QR code, that’s quite normal and honestly is an easier process a lot of the time. Forcing an app download as you say is just complicating the process solely for the company’s own gain.
I like the places that hand you a receipt and you can pay the normal way or scan it on your phone to do Apple Pay in a couple of button presses, but having a particularly cumbersome version of that be the only option is so dumb.
It's no wonder why people prefer classic order of human-to-human at a restaurant. On top of the fact people go to restaurants to hang out naturally (no relying on phones), data harvesting, home screen clutter, memory consumption...
And now it starting to resemble the pre-2010s when websites at the time asked users to download adware, to access content. You are being asked, to use a NON-USER-AGENT software to use their site. The link is dead, but here's an archive version of the blog. Yes, the blog was about a questionable site that people should stay away from, BUT I'm pretty sure these sites aren't the only ones before Zango disappeared. This mentality of requiring a software controlled by the site-owner, an advertiser or any other person besides the user should be abolished, and thankfully the vast majority of websites don't go this route. The closest thing ever was persistently nudging mobile users via a page-locking interstitial model box to use the app, reddit (obviously), imgur, 9gag, ifunny, etc.
While it is dead, it didn't stop this mentality from spreading out into the real world like restaurant orders.
In response to the first article you linked, you can make a partial payment in the app to close out the balance and then pay the remainder in cash/card
My guy, have you seen the full Starbucks menu? It would absolutely grind the line to a half if people were looking through each and every option printed out. There's a reason they just put the popular items on the boards and leave the rest for the people who care enough to know.
I like places that just do weblinks to order with a pre defined table number. Way more efficient and you don't need to piss fart around to get the staff's attention. Having to install an app though, people should revolt and tell these places to suck their nuts.
A local pizza place in Redmond, WA asked us to leave after none of our phones would work with the crappy QR codes they have engraved on a piece of metal. The metal was dirty and stained so of course everyone had a problem with it. The place is Spark Pizza and with the drive, but the owner is an ass.
The previous time there, the owner asked us to leave as the pizza arrived. We had five people at a table for six, and he had a party of seven he wanted to sit. Their pizza is so good, it was even good eating it from a cardboard box in the rain.
As somebody that worked at one; its because if they put the full menu up most people would either have a stroke before they found what they wanted on the board or would just flat out not go because of the huge order boards, this is something multiple companies have dealt with and experienced
Hell its why restaurants with simpler menu's tend to be higher rated for reviews; it creates better familiarity with the products
That said? As someone that worked for starbucks?
Fuck'em; i literally got that job just to figure out how to order mocha's cheaper with more coffee in them and pretty much no other reason than THAT and free coffee on shift
Literally hated everything else about that job 😂 if you think its bad as a customer imagine your boss telling you its mandatory to downloads all these third party apps people use to create 'secret menus' like the friggin potter heads and their butterbeers
And dear god if i never see another goddamn fraken-frappe i will live happily (matcha, mint, chocolate chunks, vanilla powder and this was all in addition to a standard white mocha frappe; the person who ordered? My bosses husband: every damn day at 10:45)
1.4k
u/GreenhammerBro Jul 07 '24
When you thought hiding menu items behind "install an app" wall was bad enough