I don't want to sign up to your website or download your app and I really don't want to "pick a location" so I can "start my order" just to see the menu (especially if I'm not in a familiar place and have to google the zip code before I can select a damned location).

I just want to look at your menu. If I like what I see, I'll patronize your restaurant.

If I have to jump through hoops just to see what you're offering, guess what I'm not going to do?

-Rob

Preach it brother!!

Prefer the good old menu myself, since I don't have my face in a smart phone all day.



The new generation customers probably say the opposite, just put the menu on their phones and let them look at it while driving to the restaurant.

You need both options..

One thing to consider is that the location of the restaurant. If it is a chain, some items may not be available based on location. I do agree though that it is a pain to have to enter info just to see the menu.

I strongly agree with the first part of your rant. If I have to sign up or download your app I'm just not going to patronize your restaurant.

The second part though is a little more important. Lots of restaurants have different menus at different locations, and it would piss me off a lot more to see something I like, drive to the restaurant, and find out they don't have it.

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Originally posted by HRK:
The new generation customers probably say the opposite, just put the menu on their phones and let them look at it while driving to the restaurant.

Oh, I'm not against publishing menus online. That's exactly what I'm talking about, in fact. I WANT to see your menu online when I'm in a group and we're trying to decide where to go to eat. I just don't want to have to fill out a bunch of crap, put myself on your contact list, and (the biggest gripe), launch into your online ordering system just to see it.

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Originally posted by Perception:
Lots of restaurants have different menus at different locations, and it would piss me off a lot more to see something I like, drive to the restaurant, and find out they don't have it.

That's fair. I retract the second part of my rant for restaurants with menus that vary across locations.

-Rob

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Originally posted by Perception:

Lots of restaurants have different menus at different locations, and it would piss me off a lot more to see something I like, drive to the restaurant, and find out they don't have it.

Yup, I ran into that just this week, with Chick-Fil-A. I used to stop in, in the morning to grab a spicy chicken breakfast biscuit and a coffee, then a few years ago they discontinued the spicy chicken breakfast biscuit (), so I stopped going there in the morning,

I happened to glance at their website the other day, and saw the spicy chicken breakfast biscuit. YAY! Then I did the "enter your location" and found that the spicy chicken breakfast biscuit is not offered anywhere near me.

[quote]and found that the spicy chicken breakfast biscuit is not offered anywhere near me. <<

Order it at the counter. I have never received a 'no' at any CFA when I ask for something not listed on the menu, but reasonably makeable.

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Originally posted by ridgerat:

[quote]and found that the spicy chicken breakfast biscuit is not offered anywhere near me. <<

Order it at the counter. I have never received a 'no' at any CFA when I ask for something not listed on the menu, but reasonably makeable.

"Sorry, that item is no longer available."

Yeah, digital menus, "just scan our QR code" and all that.

Sorry, I don't have a phone. Paper menu, or have it scribbled on a chalkboard or otherwise posted, or I'll go elsewhere.

I'm just not going to do that shit.

Do not have a phone so that service is not available for my use...And signing up for the "order by app" or "qr" code" and the item is at a cheaper cost... Forget it.... You do not need my information for anything for any reason.... Will take my wallet down the road if you can not do business old school. Same as self check out registers. .... drill sgt.

I don't trust QR codes . You could be downloading things you don't know about . Yeah , I'm paranoid that way .

Fuck living in the Minority Report. I rarely go out to eat, maybe 1-2 times a year at a restaurant and that’s a vendor thing at work. I did go with the only family member I have left to a birthday thing for a step something or other. We get there, it’s like an hour from my house. No menus. My cousin says “You just have to look at it on your phone.” I said well I’m out of here then. Only then did the waitress go get physical menus and she was real bothered by it. Everyone is fucking consumed with phone life. I mean it’s more addicting than crack cocaine. Everywhere I go, these people live their entire lives on that got damn phone. Any place that requires an app is canceled. Tired of it.

Yeah, you want me to eat or drink at your establishment, you had better have a menu to hand to me or on the wall. I’m not scanning a QR code as they are the latest way to install malware. I’m not logging into your website, I’m not giving you my email or phone number. I’m not even using your “free” Wi-Fi.

I’ll go one further. The menu had better have either the name of the dish or a description of the dish in English, and no weird, snooty terms.

the reality is for most businesses and the folks running them it you don't have a smart phone then you don't really exist in their world and are no longer relevant to their business plan.

Oh and Nuclear is right.... I'm constantly having to use my phone to look up what ever the hell it is they are wanting to feed me and have listed on the menu.... which is usually just some form of meat or fish or cheese.

All I can say is 'Mr T' or BABaracas@yahoo.com" is a member of a lot of these sites for some reason, along with MPLS airport and Heathrow wifi to name but two others.

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Originally posted by BurtonRW:

If I have to jump through hoops just to see what you're offering, guess what I'm not going to do?

Amen!

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Originally posted by Pyker:
All I can say is 'Mr T' or BABaracas@yahoo.com" is a member of a lot of these sites for some reason, along with MPLS airport and Heathrow wifi to name but two others.

Or maybe that annoying friend/co-worker likes to sign up for these things, yeah that's it, an annoying co-worker, that's the ticket...

When I am pronounced ruler of the universe,
You will get your choice of six menu's,
Consisting of A) 400,B) 550, C)700, D)900, E)1000 or F) 1200 calorie meals.

Nine options per menu.
All nine options on each menu will be the same price.

the 400 calorie menu options will be 1/3 the price of the 1200 calorie menu options.


Easy peasy, A d 7 please

When ever I'm asked to scan the restaurants menu or download something I ask for a printed menu. This will always provoke jeers from the young-ens at the table. I don't care because I always end up with the bill.
If the restaurant can't provide a printed menu I'm outta there!