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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chicago restaurant Esmé briefly explored using QR codes but found them to be an impediment to their brand of personalized service. "While we no longer use QR codes at Esmé, I would encourage guests ...

In recent years, QR code menus have become common in restaurants, allowing diners to scan a code with their smartphones to view the menu digitally. The concept sounds practical—no physical contact, ...

Darron Cardosa is a food service professional with over 30 years of restaurant experience. He has written more than 1,500 articles and blog posts about the hospitality industry, including for Food & ...

Amanda Kludt is the former editor-in-chief of Eater. This post originally appeared on October 24, 2020 in Amanda Kludt’s newsletter “From the Editor,” a roundup of the most vital news and stories in ...

It’s Wednesday, which means that it’s time to take inventory of everything we hate in another edition of The Gripe Report. Last week, in an edition some are calling "historic," "monumental," and "meh, ...

I get it, printing prices are high, and as a business owner, you need to trim those costs wherever you can. Printing restaurant menus can vary widely in cost depending on style, finish, and order size ...

A attack using QR codes is known as "quishing," a combination of QR code and phishing. The danger isn't the QR code itself; ...

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