The Restaurant Industry’s Worst Idea: QR Code Menus

Re:The Restaurant Industry’s Worst Idea: QR Code Menus by mgkimsal on Saturday October 29, 2022 @10:02PM (#33390216)

> Most Android phones do this automatically - and it's not too hard to write up a quick app for it to scan automatically when it detects a QR code

You just 'write up a quick app' in the middle of a restaurant?

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Re:The Restaurant Industry’s Worst Idea: QR Code Menus by tmtvl on Saturday October 29, 2022 @11:52PM (#33390878)

If you can't write up a full-featured QR code scanner from scratch in 15 seconds, can you really call yourself a programmer?

On a more serious note, though, I wouldn't be much impressed with QR code menus. I usually have my 4G off, I don't trust random wifi networks, and I don't like smartphones as a form factor for any text over 500 characters.

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Re:The Restaurant Industry’s Worst Idea: QR Code Menus by BiometricAndy on Sunday October 30, 2022 @12:33AM (#33391119)

HN is so ironic, they complain and criticize everything but fail to understand QR code. Are they actually a programmer or only acting like it. India already have UPI implementation while in the USA they need apple to save their useless banking system and still fail to move on with tech.

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Re:The Restaurant Industry’s Worst Idea: QR Code Menus by fomine3 on Sunday October 30, 2022 @08:40PM (#33400682)

It's weird that people hate QR codes so much. Perhaps is it phenomenon only in the US? It's just a information encoded as a square, not something like Skynet.

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Re:The Restaurant Industry’s Worst Idea: QR Code Menus by oneeyedpigeon on Sunday October 30, 2022 @05:11AM (#33392635)

If you're a junior dev, sure. Senior engineers just decode the QR mentally.

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