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Throughout the pandemic, it made sense to swap out paper menus for a safer, health-friendly alternative, like QR codes. However, restaurants—and their customers—are ready to ditch the "tacky" ...

Not that long ago, QR code menus were the go-to fix for restaurants looking to speed up service without hiring more servers. Then the diners staged a revolt. Complaints over QR codes include customers ...

As consumers head out to restaurants, spending in record numbers, QR codes, which allow for easy menu updates and touchless transactions, may have emerged as a permanent replacement for physical menus ...

A dining innovation that once looked like the future has worn out its welcome with many restaurateurs, customers and servers who say it takes the joy out of dining. By Amelia Nierenberg Heavenly ...

The QR code menu is being kicked to the curb in many restaurants throughout the U.S., leaving it in the past where it belongs. Reading time 2 minutes The QR code menu which restaurateurs began using ...

A soggy or smudged QR code won't work, something that Jay Sanders, owner of Drastic Measures, a bar in Shawnee, Kansas, learned the hard way. When the bar opened in June 2020, he printed the QR code ...

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Their fifteen minutes of pandemic fame are up. Remember 2020, when we were thrilled to be dining outdoors after a three-month lockdown? Capturing a QR code and seeing a restaurant menu pop up on your ...

Of all the pandemic-inspired business adoptions, perhaps none is as reviled as the QR-code menus. And yet, it persists. Early in the pandemic, restaurants ditched physical menus and instead revived a ...