# Death to QR Codes! (Restaurants and Menus) **URL:** \ **Category:** Nationwide Restaurants\ **Created:** [August 17, 2023, 4:55am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/death-to-qr-codes-restaurants-and-menus/232700 "2023-08-17T04:55:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Joebie](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Joebie](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Joebie)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2023, 2:54am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/death-to-qr-codes-restaurants-and-menus/232700/121 "2023-08-27T02:54:29Z")
> [@finley](#): > > _hate_ typing in credit-card numbers Errr, why would you need to do this? Are you not using the wallet app on your phone? ---
**Author:** ![user86](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/2acd7d/32.png) [@user86](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/user86)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2023, 3:14am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/death-to-qr-codes-restaurants-and-menus/232700/122 "2023-08-27T03:14:35Z")
> [@Brianjones](#): > > you have to flick through lots of options and figure out the flow of the ordering Same with traditional book menus, especially the places that have different books for different categories like drinks, desserts, and lunch specials. > [@Brianjones](#): > > Then you have to figure out how to pay. Don’t you usually just take your check to the counter at the end of the meal? That’s unrelated to ordering. ---
**Author:** ![Taiwan\_Luthiers](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@Taiwan\_Luthiers](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Taiwan_Luthiers)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2023, 3:27am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/death-to-qr-codes-restaurants-and-menus/232700/123 "2023-08-27T03:27:52Z")
What if your phone isn’t working? Or what if it has no internet and the restaurant isn’t providing wifi? ---
**Author:** ![user86](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/2acd7d/32.png) [@user86](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/user86)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2023, 3:32am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/death-to-qr-codes-restaurants-and-menus/232700/124 "2023-08-27T03:32:49Z")
> [@Taiwan\_Luthiers](#): > > What if your phone isn’t working? Or what if it has no internet and the restaurant isn’t providing wifi? What if you’re blind? A book menu would be useless too. I’m sure the restaurant can accommodate phone-less customers the same way they accommodate blind customers. ---
**Author:** ![Brianjones](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/eada6e/32.png) [@Brianjones](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Brianjones)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2023, 5:12am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/death-to-qr-codes-restaurants-and-menus/232700/125 "2023-08-27T05:12:57Z")
> [@user86](#): > > restaurant can accommodate phone-less customers Some of them won’t. QR codes are an answer to a problem we the customer didn’t have. As I said I expect generative AI to make it much easier as it remembers what you like and prepares your potential orders as you walk in the door. 😮 ---
**Author:** ![Taiwan\_Luthiers](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@Taiwan\_Luthiers](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Taiwan_Luthiers)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2023, 5:54am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/death-to-qr-codes-restaurants-and-menus/232700/126 "2023-08-27T05:54:05Z")
What problem does qr codes solve? It seems to create a bunch of new problems, not to mention security and phishing concerns. It isn’t necessary. ---
**Author:** ![Shaun008](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/shaun008/32/209482_2.png) [@Shaun008](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Shaun008)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2023, 9:54am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/death-to-qr-codes-restaurants-and-menus/232700/127 "2023-08-27T09:54:36Z")
> [@Brianjones](#): > > QR codes are an answer to a problem we the customer didn’t have. Offering it as an option to people who want to use it, but still having a traditional menu on a tablet for the people who don’t want to use their own device would be better. I feel paper menus are on the way out for mid range places, one of the companies I work with, started switching to digital screens to display the menus about 5 years ago. At that time they had 24 outlets with 3 large printed menus in each, now they are down to 11 outlets that are still printed and they are being updated around every to months due to price increases. ---
**Author:** ![Brianjones](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/eada6e/32.png) [@Brianjones](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Brianjones)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2023, 10:12am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/death-to-qr-codes-restaurants-and-menus/232700/128 "2023-08-27T10:12:08Z")
I didn’t say digital menus are a problem though, I said QR codes for menus are a bitch on your phone Tablets with some decent photos are pretty useful and of course paper menus will eventually go extinct. ---
**Author:** ![Shaun008](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/shaun008/32/209482_2.png) [@Shaun008](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Shaun008)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2023, 10:28am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/death-to-qr-codes-restaurants-and-menus/232700/129 "2023-08-27T10:28:08Z")
> [@Brianjones](#): > > I didn’t say digital menus are a problem though, I said QR codes for menus are a bitch on your phone I agree, i would choose walk than use a QR menu, as I say I don’t mind them using it as an option for people who want it, but it should be just that, an option. The thing I dislike here is that they act like its all or nothing, like the boss got a new system so we have to use it. Either that or they are collecting information from behind the interface that couldn’t be collected from a regular POS system. ---
**Author:** ![bz](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/ec9cab/32.png) [@bz](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/bz)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2023, 7:16pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/death-to-qr-codes-restaurants-and-menus/232700/130 "2023-08-27T19:16:58Z")
> [@finley](#): > > It almost certainly _increases_ their operating costs. Capex is much higher, but opex should be lower with reduced staffing. I could see where the math could work quite well, depending on all the various other factors. 🤔 ---
**Author:** ![finley](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/57b2e6/32.png) [@finley](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/finley)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2023, 2:00am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/death-to-qr-codes-restaurants-and-menus/232700/131 "2023-08-28T02:00:05Z")
> [@Joebie](#): > > > [@finley](#): > > > > _hate_ typing in credit-card numbers > > wallet app on your phone ![image](https://forumosauploads-12829.kxcdn.com/original/3X/1/a/1a3a852347304521cc97dec5b8ec9b4b9e02d36e.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Marco](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/marco/32/179744_2.png) [@Marco](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Marco)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2023, 3:39am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/death-to-qr-codes-restaurants-and-menus/232700/132 "2023-09-25T03:39:00Z")
17 posts were split to a new topic: [Death to QR Codes! (Non Culinary)](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/death-to-qr-codes-non-culinary/233720) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Ghost](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/71c47a/32.png) [@The\_Ghost](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/The_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2023, 4:26am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/death-to-qr-codes-restaurants-and-menus/232700/145 "2023-09-20T04:26:34Z")
As soon as a restaurant asks me to scan a QR code or download an app to view the menu, I’m gone. ---
**Author:** ![Marco](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/marco/32/179744_2.png) [@Marco](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Marco)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2023, 3:42am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/death-to-qr-codes-restaurants-and-menus/232700/146 "2023-09-25T03:42:18Z")
Spun the post office QR Codes into a new topic. ---
**Author:** ![afterspivak](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ccd318/32.png) [@afterspivak](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/afterspivak)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2023, 2:29pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/death-to-qr-codes-restaurants-and-menus/232700/147 "2023-09-25T14:29:45Z")
I ended up in another QR-code-only restaurant this evening in Taipei City’s East District. Thankfully I had a specific dish already recommended to me, and had also studied the menu as it appears on google reviews. So I skipped the QR code nonsense, told the Filipino staff that _These QR codes are very unpopular with some foreigners right now_, and ordered the dish I wanted. Thank you @Mataiou for this recommendation. The calzone was great, if also huge for this single diner! Guy ---
**Author:** ![Marco](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/marco/32/179744_2.png) [@Marco](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Marco)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2023, 4:59am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/death-to-qr-codes-restaurants-and-menus/232700/148 "2023-10-08T04:59:35Z")
Toasteria has gone mad! They will provide their ipad if you refuse to use the QR Code. ---
**Author:** ![Mataiou](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/mataiou/32/178744_2.png) [@Mataiou](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Mataiou)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2023, 5:17am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/death-to-qr-codes-restaurants-and-menus/232700/149 "2023-10-08T05:17:14Z")
They really love this bloody qrs, don’t they? ---
**Author:** ![BigDave](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/bigdave/32/181371_2.png) [@BigDave](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/BigDave)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2023, 8:14am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/death-to-qr-codes-restaurants-and-menus/232700/150 "2023-10-08T08:14:34Z")
Don’t most people order like one thing at this kind of place? ---
**Author:** ![Marco](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/marco/32/179744_2.png) [@Marco](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Marco)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2023, 8:19am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/death-to-qr-codes-restaurants-and-menus/232700/151 "2023-10-08T08:19:54Z")
I dunno. I saw a QR code and I recoiled ---
**Author:** ![slawa](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/slawa/32/112823_2.png) [@slawa](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/slawa)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2023, 1:18am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/death-to-qr-codes-restaurants-and-menus/232700/152 "2023-11-07T01:18:54Z")
> Went to a restaurant earlier in Sunny Coast, asked for a menu – the only menu they had was on the door and was directed to a QR code menu on the table. > It’s for this f\*\*\*ing web app called meandu which proceeded to charge a 6.5 per cent venue surcharge, a 2 per cent payment processing fee, and then had the audacity to ask for a tip (10, 15, 25 per cent) as the cherry on top! [https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/aussies-fume-over-being-asked-to-use-qr-codes-at-restaurants/news-story/6f5c0be6b75584c1aceb2041433538aa](https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/aussies-fume-over-being-asked-to-use-qr-codes-at-restaurants/news-story/6f5c0be6b75584c1aceb2041433538aa) 🇦🇺 Restaurant changed to QR-Code menu and used third party with additional fees! lmao [Previous page](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/death-to-qr-codes-restaurants-and-menus/232700.md?page=6) [Next page](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/death-to-qr-codes-restaurants-and-menus/232700.md?page=8)