When scanned, the code acts as a shortcut, directing the diner somewhere: to a website to view a menu, place an order, or even pay the bill. Ravi Kapur, chef and owner of San Francisco restaurant Good ...

At the Brown Jug Restaurant, there are QR codes on every table. First adopted during the COVID-19 pandemic, digital menus are now the norm at the Ann Arbor mainstay. “We’re keeping the QR code around, ...

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 ...

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, ...

Since restaurants opened their doors to dine-in service, you may have noticed several different steps taken to create as safe as possible environment in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. One of ...

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Dining out at a restaurant used to be a break from busy routines — and technology. It was a faux pas to spend a meal staring at your phone. But with coronavirus continuing to spread across the U.S., ...

QR codes, which allow for touchless transactions, may have emerged as a permanent replacement for physical menus, according to restaurant industry experts. Bitly, a link management service, said that ...

Like many ambitious restaurants around town, the newly opened Pastore leaves no detail unturned: Customers are handed cold towels that chill in a fridge set precisely at 40 degrees, white tablecloths ...