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That’s quite different from my experience using QR menus, which at least here in the UK are often just a (rather pointless) link to the PDF menu that the restaurant already had. It’s only in the case of medium sized chains that you get sent to some random website where you can order things.

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It's become impossible to get sit down food or a drink in a US airport without using (what seems to be the same) company's QR code online order and pay to your seat system. It seems to be the same system for every restaurant or bar.

Besides needing to provide unnecessary amounts of information, it also requires a well working internet connection to load their bloated website. Which is often spotty so... very frustrating.

Luckily QR menus are going out of style.

> link to the PDF menu

And the especially responsible will print the (human-readable...) URL under the QR code.

I personally always print a human readable url in monospace font underneath every QR code I generate.

A restaurant in California has menu available only at QR code, and QR code is printed in MS word with skewed dimensions (rectangle instead of a square).

Yeah that’s a good point. I’m actually in the UK at the moment and Wetherspoons is the only place where I’m ordering with my phone (also, the Wetherspoon app is a great example of mobile ordering done right - fast and no collection of PII).

Compared to Melbourne where half the pubs I visit tell me to order via the QR menu where I have to punch in my number and get an OTP before I can order anything.

There's both QR codes that are links to menus and QR codes that are links to interactive menus you can order directly from. Usually the latter will require some sort of sign up.

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