QR codes were meant to make life smoother. No waiting for a printed menu at a restaurant, no flipping pages, no calling out to staff for the bill. Just scan, tap, and you’re done. But that tiny square ...

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 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, ...

Two employees at the D.C. restaurant Busboys and Poets train on a QR code menu system near the start of the pandemic in May 2020. (Amanda Voisard for The Washington Post) I’m not exactly what you ...

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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 ...

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, ...