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.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

With a scannable code available at every table, just imagine the speed with which diners can get their meals. It can also be a lifesaver for customers with poor eyesight, making your restaurant ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The control group kept their phone in a box. QR-code menus reduce privacy, too, because diners who use them aren’t just communicating with the restaurant in question.

When trust breaks, it rarely returns. Recent research shows a 433% increase in references to QR code phishing ("quishing") between the last quarter of 2023 and the first quarter of 2024.

QR-code startup cuts staff and pulls out of 4 global markets less than a year after raising over $120 million, as layoffs strike restaurant tech sector By Nancy Luna ...