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[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah, sorry not sorry, I'm not sitting down at a restaurant and scanning a random QR code in the hopes of getting a menu.

Only thing worse than this is places that don't accept cash or credit, only some kind of cash transfer app like zelle.

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

don’t accept cash or credit, only some kind of cash transfer app like zelle.

That sounds sketchy, I've seen card only but where have you seen a business do this?

[–] tux7350@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Lots of small business / vendors at festivals do stuff like this. They don't want to pay Visa or Mastercard for each transaction and will instead use a personal cash transfer app to move the money.

Or it's for drugs lol

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

That makes sense at like a booth or festival vendor, I didn't think of that. I did use cash app once at a shop where I'm at to buy unregulated weed ahah.

[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 39 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (13 children)

The #1 reason I hate QR codes (edit: directing to a website to order & pay for a restaurant online) is because they make you agree to further terms and conditions like collecting data on you.

All just to fucking order food.

Shit should 100% be illegal.

I'm not against the concept of having digital ordering as an option. But it must be an option, and without any data collection

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[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 176 points 4 days ago (7 children)

Fuck I despise this menu bullshit. Give me a fucking menu.

[–] driving_crooner 92 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

They had to put a fucking law in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo mandating that restaurants had to have physical menus with the printed prices.

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[–] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 53 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I like when there's a qr code that allows you to order and pay without needing to wait for a waiter. A qr code where it just links to a pdf of a menu that they didn't want to print sucks.

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 33 points 4 days ago

If it’s printed on the inside of the menu so you can order quickly when it’s busy and help take some of the pressure off the servers and maybe get your food faster? That’s cool.

When it’s just a virtual menu so they can surge price in real time? Fuck those places.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 4 days ago (4 children)

PDF is at least kind of permanent. Most restaurants that have qr code set up usually have "surge pricing" that allows them to change their prices on a whim.

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[–] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 25 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Give me a menu or I'll tell you what I want and you can figure out how to put it in.

Either that or I walk.

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[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 55 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I had a worse fucking experience somehow just last week, the QR code pointed you to their fucking instagram, that's where the weekly lunch menu options were posted, except I have no idea how my colleagues even accessed it, because anything I clicked didn't take me to that "story/reel" whatever the fuck it's called, the owner of that restaurant deserves to burn in hell for eternity

[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I honestly want to fight businesses who don't have a website.

Website hosting is dirty cheap, domains are dirt cheap (relative to other costs of the business).

If you're a retail/hospitality venue your traffic is so low.

If you point me to a Facebook or Instagram page as your only web presence (meaning, no organisation at all, just bloody chronological posts, and maaaaybe some useful information in the page bio), I'm gonna be annoyed.

The number of times some business or organisation updates things on Facebook and Instagram, and not on their website, is frustrating.

Has happened to me many, many times, where I turn up to something that isn't happening because they've only posted it on Instagram

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

I've been on websites for restaurants that they are clearly trying to do it themselves. The site is janky, has empty menus (or the same broken link 6 times), but I can access the restaurant menu easily so I don't care.

I've tried to get online menus for restaurant's that only have Instagram or Facebook and it makes me really not want to order from them.

[–] racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 67 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I once got a group message from my child's teacher, screaming in excitement that "the event at school is live!"

The link points to 192.168.x.x.

[–] Hobo@lemmy.world 35 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 78 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (9 children)

I get someone made a hilarious mistake.

But why would you not even test the code before gluing them to all the tables?

Or before sending the code to be etched?

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They did test it. On their machine.

Which implies he developed the menu on his phone, or he tried to scan it with a laptop webcam lmao

[–] Harrk@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago

I created a QR generator website and you have no idea. I get emails from people saying they’ve printed the codes before discovering it goes to the wrong place (sometimes even to my own site!) and if I can fix it. No... check your codes before they go to print!

The funniest one I had caused me to get a huge spike of traffic on Christmas. It was so weird and left me clueless for weeks, until I got an email from somebody wishing to cancel a subscription.

I don’t sell subscriptions or anything at all!

Turns out somebody printed a QR code into a smartwatch instruction booklet that went straight to my site… The ad revenue was insane tho!

[–] HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world 71 points 4 days ago (5 children)

I think since its not so much btoken as pointing to a local file, I think they may have tested it on the one device they made it, so it worked...on that device.

They should have 100% tested it on other devices

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[–] emberpunk@lemmy.ml 32 points 3 days ago (1 children)

OK listen hear me out. Perfect opportunity for guests to learn how to ssh tunnel to port forward to their local device 😅

[–] stembolts@programming.dev 17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

I'll save noobies some time.

for (( i=1; i<65536; i++ ));do  
  for (( j=1; j<256; i++ ));do  
    ssh -L $j$i:127.0.0.1:$i -N 192.168.1.$j &  
  done  
done  

What could go wrong?

Okay clearly this won't work because there aren't enough local ports to match to 16 bits of ports on potentially 255 machines, but with some slight modification I could add in a test to only increment the local port if the forward is successful and thereby create the dumbest-ass port forwarding script ever.

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[–] boreengreen@lemm.ee 34 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I don't do resturants all that often and I never saw one that had these. But I once encountered this at a clinic. I had no qr reader on my phone and no internet access at the time. So I just waited around until the receptionist came around. Turns out every person in the room ignored the qr-code as well.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago

Well, you forgot to install the menu-server-app. Do it, and the problem is solved.

[–] SatyrSack@feddit.org 29 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (17 children)

Would this probably work if you connect to their Wi-Fi?

EDIT: I am smart, I promise

[–] zdanger@lemmy.world 90 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Localhost denotes the device itself. It would work if your phone were running a web server with the cafe's menu hosted on it

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 38 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I almost said yes, but no, localhost is your own device. If it was a 192.168 ip it would be different.

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