New restaurant QR rule has boomers raging, and plenty of other diners don't like it either

[Hafar1014]

MSN

QR-only menus spread fast when restaurants wanted contactless service and fewer shared touchpoints. What began as a practical pandemic fix slowly hardened into a default rule at many tables.

That rule now annoys far more people than the early hype suggested. Recent Ipsos polling found that 58% wanted to go back to paper menus, while only 39% hoped QR-menu use would continue.

Older diners do react more negatively than younger ones, but they are not alone in the backlash. Restaurant Dive reported that 47% of consumers were uncomfortable using QR codes in restaurants, including 65% of people age 60 and older.

That means the real story is not boomers versus everyone else. It is a broader fight over whether a restaurant should make dinner easier or quietly turn the customer into part of the workflow.

People objected to screens at the table, clunky reading experiences, and the feeling that dinner was becoming work.

I've ran into that once and told the counter guy if you can't take my order like a human being I'll go someplace else that will.

I dont like it I want human interaction thats part of great meal

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

I dont like it I want human interaction thats part of great meal

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When I worked serving food and cocktails, I always had a smile and a friendly attitude, and thus I got great tips.

I can't even tolerate someone who looks at me as though they're doing me a great favor by serving me. I am normally a great tipper, and bad attitude is my exception. It's like they are trying to make you pay for the fact that they can't get the perfect job they were promised when they started towards their degree in Underwater Bornean Basket Weaving.

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[airplanemechanic]

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No, no one has ever stated that praying a Hail Mary or an Our Father will forgive sins. I think you have been listening to the same lies that most Lutherans believe.

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Yes, they do, and they think confession does the same thing.

https://relevantradio.com/2019/10/the-rosary-as-an-instrument-of-forgiveness/

I was a catholic for 25 years, I know what they believe. Nowhere in the bible is the "rosary" mentioned, and neither is praying with beads. That's all catholic whack.

Also, find the word "pope" in the bible. Nope, no pope. The bible forgot to mention him.

 

[Anathema]

That's how you gig them! Eateries are very sensitive to patron reviews due to competition.

It might be 'their place, their rules" but that does not mean patrons should not let it be known that they are dissatisfied with them.

Yeah. He thought it wouldn’t be an issue when his wife made the decision. I told him we’d come back if he hired armed security. He laughed. Then he got robbed three weeks later.

He admits the weapon policy is hurting them but he won’t change it.

 

[Natural Citizen]

I really do try.....I get tired of the same ol crap here. Some people here seem to have one track minds.....Mostly TDS related.

What Hafar mentioned in post #81 reminded me of it not being just eateries. And that I miss good old fashioned hardware stores, too. Actually, I especially miss them.

Don't even get me started on the whys of it. There are many whys beyond just human interaction.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Yes, they do, and they think confession does the same thing.

https://relevantradio.com/2019/10/the-rosary-as-an-instrument-of-forgiveness/

I was a catholic for 25 years, I know what they believe. Nowhere in the bible is the "rosary" mentioned, and neither is praying with beads. That's all catholic whack.

Also, find the word "pope" in the bible. Nope, no pope. The bible forgot to mention him.

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Ahhhhh.............. so you're a sola scriptura.

Explains everything.





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[1srelluc]

What Hafar mentioned in post #81 reminded me of it not being just eateries. And that I miss good old fashioned hardware stores, too. Actually, I especially miss them.

Don't even get me started on the whys of it. There are many whys beyond just human interaction.

Yep, at our last good hardware store you could ask any employee (all were family) where anything was and they would take you to it.

Now you get the doe in the headlights look if you ask where the button head cap screws are.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Yep, at our last good hardware store you could ask any employee (all were family) where anything was and they would take you to it.

Now you get the doe in the headlights look if you ask where the button head cap screws are.

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I miss good hardware stores.

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[braalian]

I'm just tired of the kids behind the counter at the deli or the gym acting annoyed that they have to interact with you.

Its clearly a generational thing.

I had retail jobs when I was their age. If you were busy or bored you still "fake it" and smile and be pleasant with the customer. That's part of your job FFS

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

I'm just tired of the kids behind the counter at the deli or the gym acting annoyed that they have to interact with you.

Its clearly a generational thing.

I had retail jobs when I was their age. If you were busy or bored you still "fake it" and smile and be pleasant with the customer. That's part of your job FFS

Gen Z stare - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Natural Citizen]

I've been meaning to watch this movie.

Looks entertaining...



A 'Man from the Future' arrives at an LA diner where he must recruit the precise combination of disgruntled patrons to join him on a one-night quest to save the world from the terminal threat of a rogue artificial intelligence.

 

[JohnDB]

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I'm so new at being Catholic -- only two years -- that I don't understand a lot of why we do many things. I'm learning.

It is very cute.

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That's fine and rather normal....most Catholics don't understand the "why" either.

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Despite the huge amount of press....

Catholics do not hold the license for "all truth" concerning God. Lots of denominations have a measure of it. How much is a huge question that gets argued constantly.

 

[Captain Creeper]

The last time I ran into this I turned into a mega A-hole and demanded a printed menu or I would leave. They managed to find me a printed menu.

 

[JohnDB]

So much of foodservice today is corporate giants....from Shoneys/O'Charlies, Ruby Tuesdays and etc....now Panera wannabes and Buffalo wild wings and chicken salad chik.

It's corporate slop, overhyped processed food reheated and oversold.

That's why we are having fits about it all.

Exorbitantly expensive and some is suspect as to actually being food at all.

Of course the waitstaff is untrained except for how to make out the bill....but expecting great tips as part of their salary. The kitchen staff is paid less than the waitstaff....so quality labor is absent there too....after all its heat and eat food with timers for all the equipment. Any modern restaurant cook couldn't tell you the 5 mother sauces unless they googled it. The section of beef the steaks were cut from and point to it on a beef diagram? Fuhgetaboutit.

Independent restaurants also buy this heavily processed food as well. But they can't make any money because the profit was made at the food processing plant.