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 ...
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Up until COVID-19, the QR code, that square offspring of the Universal Product Code, was a mostly marginal technology as far as the consumer marketplace was concerned. During the pandemic, however, ...
PORT CHESTER, N.Y. - The dining-out experience has been ever-changing since restaurants reopened during COVID, but three years later, it’s just about as normal as it was pre-2020. Part of Lizzie ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
A Poor Man's Roast Beef or Fresh Boston Fried Cod each cost $1.25; a New England Boiled Dinner $3.50; Prime Rib with Vegetable $7; and the most expensive item, a Two-Pound Lobster, boiled or broiled ...
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 ...
You can scan a QR code using the camera on your smartphone, tablet, or computer — however, you may need to download an app.