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I much prefer the QR codes. I can zoom and search and turn up the brightness for my old eyes. It's funny seeing the current generation get up in arms about progress after spending so much time whining about boomers inability to cope with change.

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Not all change is good

  - Can’t load menu because of bad internet connection
  - Small text/bad formatting
  - Outdated/inaccurate menu
  - Scrolling on a phone to see the back side of the PDF menu worse experience than  flipping over a paper menu
  - Navigating to a different website to see drinks menu worse experience than two paper menus
  - Impersonal

Aside from internet connection, paper menus are worse on all those counts.

My expectation is for a restaurant to have paper menus locally, and a website that has the menu electronically (which I use to check their menu beforehand).

So: why not both (though at least I don't need a QR to go to the website, it's normally easy to find based on the restaurant name and on Maps)

We know how to use the apps, we just don’t want to. Not all change is for the better.

> It's funny seeing the current generation get up in arms about progress after spending so much time whining about boomers inability to cope with change.

Almost all of these apparent "contradictions" stem from the fact that generations as a cohesive single-minded group is a total illusion.

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