A QR code can kill the mood: phones up, blue lights on, conviviality off. “The bottom line is: The QR code is the antithesis to romance,” said Richard Boccato, the owner of Dutch Kills Bar in ...

When using the feature, a restaurant can print a QR code out and leave it on a table. A customer would then scan the QR code, browse a menu, place their order, and pay from their phone.

Two employees at the D.C. restaurant Busboys and Poets train on a QR code menu system near the start of the pandemic in May 2020. (Amanda Voisard for The Washington Post) I’m not exactly what ...

Embracing new technology, like contactless QR code payments, can broaden the customer base and simultaneously build a leaner service model to alleviate short-staffing pressures.

QR code menus are the death of civilization June 15, 2022 More than 3 years ago A contactless ordering system at a D.C. restaurant on May 27, 2020. (Amanda Voisard/for The Washington Post) ...

Are QR code restaurant menus on their way out? — Doug S., Virginia Beach The question may have stemmed from a May 2023 article in The New York Times, titled “ The QR Code Menu is Being Shown The Door, ...

Widespread QR code menus may be a thing of the past “It’s already obsolete for most places," Chef William Emery of New York’s Tannat Market & Tavern says.

One of the lasting impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic is the popularity of QR codes. They're everywhere, from your table at a restaurant and the register at your favorite coffee shop to random stickers ...

QR codes are having a moment. Chances are, anyone visiting a restaurant during the height of the pandemic was either introduced or reintroduced to scanning those black squares first made popular in ...

Things went south after the diner accidentally included a photo of the table’s QR code, which patrons scan via iPhone to pay for the meal. After posting the food porn pics to Chinese social ...

Operators weigh the pros and cons of QR code menus. While the pros include access to customer data and saving money, the cons include a room full of diners looking at their phone.

According to the South China Morning Post, Wang didn’t know what she’d accidentally done until a member of the restaurant’s staff stopped by her table to confirm her CN¥430,000 ($60,400) order.