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 ...

Jaya Saxena is a former correspondent at Eater, and the series editor of Best American Food and Travel Writing. She explores wide ranging topics like labor, identity, and food culture. I keep ...

Kristen Hawley writes about the restaurant business from San Francisco. She's the founder of Expedite, a weekly restaurant technology newsletter highlighting news and big ideas about the future of the ...

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 ...

In 1994, the Japanese automotive-components manufacturer introduced the Quick Response (or QR) code as a way to track vehicles and parts during manufacturing. Since that time, the scannable ...

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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 ...

QR code-based phishing attacks appear to be on the rise. For this “new” hacking vector, someone gets a phishing email asking them to scan a QR code, that code redirects to a malicious link (usually to ...

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 ...

Tools like online and QR code ordering are still key to battling staffing shortages. The staffing shortage has become one of the biggest pain points for restaurants today. While not every restaurant ...

The QR code menu is being kicked to the curb in many restaurants throughout the U.S., leaving it in the past where it belongs. Reading time 2 minutes The QR code menu which restaurateurs began using ...

At many restaurants, a physical menu might be considered a bit of a vintage find. Half of full-service restaurants in the US now use scannable QR codes, according to the National Restaurant ...