Not sure why it wouldn't open for you, but it opens fine in Chrome on Mac. I thought it would be some ridiculous 50 page legalese but it's actually only 1.5 pages long. it's basically a license similar to what you'd see on a Github repo.
Vs making the license file a static page that would incur billable hours to update.
Web devs are expensive, sadly, and not everyone has the patience to figure out the DIY platforms (Square, SquareSpace, Wix, etc.). It got a bit better during the pandemic when takeout took off. But generally restaurants need to print menus anyway, so it's just easier to upload that design as a PDF than to redo it for the web with labor they don't have, or paying for it with margins they don't have...
I avoid those now. During Covid there was a slight point (though it was pretty soon proven that surface transmission was so minor a factor not to warrant such actions). But now we should just go back to normal menus.
Curiously, I was presented with options to tip 18%, 20%, 30%, or other. I thought about it and tipped accordingly to the effort the waitress put into my experience.
Shortly after, the manager came to me (essentially the first point of human interaction) and asked if there was anything wrong that caused me to tip 0%.
So yes, I too really hate the direction restaurants are heading in.
Yes, and most likely split with other cooks, host/hostess, and waitstaff for people that refuse to use the iPad.
> The restaurant owner?
Illegal in most states.
What an iconoclast, refusing to tip hourly workers...
In actual fact I wish we could stop dancing around the fluffy idea of when to tip and when not to tip and just expect restaurant owners to pay their staff and include that in the price charged for the goods. It's super annoying having to think about this stuff all the time.
I don't know your financial situation and noone is forcing you to tip. But if you make, say, more than 3 times what the people servicing you make, and you choose not to tip, I think that's quite selfish.
I'm suggesting employers pay their employees. This isn't a radical concept and works just fine everywhere else. They already do this everywhere other than restaurants. If they aren't paying employees enough, that's a problem. You don't solve that problem by adding an optional tax on customers that is kinda-sorta-not totally required. All that does is ensure that in a certain percentage of cases employees get paid zero percent of the invisible tax. I'm just saying make the tax visible and required and stop this weird dance we do in america.
Tipping should be illegal. Tipping is necessary currently most places. Both can be true.
We've all been tricked into tipping in situations where, honestly, the management should be paying better. And yeah, I know that means that the cost of things will be higher on say the menu, but the real cost of a $20 dinner should be $24, why not just pay the $24 up front and raise the base wages to what they should be.
I'm pretty sure this is only an American lunacy too.
I think people just don't want to be confronted with the idea that the people servicing them make a pittance. It brings up uncomfortable feelings to have to decide how much a service employee "ought" to be paid, each time you eat at a restaurant.
If everyone refused to tip, wages and prices would adjust.
(Tipping isn't even that old in the American culture. Perhaps a hundred years or so. And its introduction was seen as thoroughly unAmerican, and more in-line with those supposedly obedient Europeans groveling for handouts from their social superiors, instead of a proper American transaction amongst equals.)
He did tip the hourly worker who served him: he gave a tip that was a percentage of that servers wage.
What's unfair about that?
Tips should be _not-legal_ and proper wages for the workers should be _required_.
Missing episode in The Animatrix: the uprising started when robots didn't get tips.
(Tipping in a Japanese restaurant is weird anyway. People don't do that in Japan, and they don't do it in any of the authentic Japanese places I've been to.)
IPad ordering is fairly common here. I like it, very efficient.
There's a sushi place around here that does iPad ordering, but they deliver your food on the customary conveyor belt, not via robot.
In practice, however most restaurants seem to go for a PDF of their previous menu design formatted for printing on a paper many times the size of my phone. That's a bad experience and restaurants that do it deserve to lose business over it. I'm reminded of about a decade long period not long ago when a restaurant website was more likely to have animations and music than the hours and menu.
I sympathize with the PITA of changing printed menus, but that's part of what you pay for. If I go out, I'm not paying for a lunch-counter experience.
E-paper menus would be a pretty good compromise, if they could be made practical.
I don't think I've seen that functionality in many restaurants at all.
There is always a cost in updating the menu.
https://www.sixteen-nine.net/2019/08/15/paper-and-tape-are-n...
Yes. It's so that you have a dated copy. An web-page with the license on it can be retroactively changed.
The metadata on the license page does not offer the same guarantees as the metadata in the PDF.
The PDF can even be signed; the license page cannot.