I think I posted this some time ago, but it's well worth a repeat IMO. Love this waitress!!!

I'll add - the online menus that have no pricing. Sorry, ain't driving there to find out what you're hiding.

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Originally posted by mikeyspizza:

I'll add - the online menus that have no pricing. Sorry, ain't driving there to find out what you're hiding.

I have been able to see prices on some of these by selecting options to order online for pick-up. Not available on all, but many do offer this on the website.

This is absolutely obnoxious. I'm on the road a lot and try to follow some concept of a diet, so I spend time looking at menus before I go to a restaurant. I agree, if I need to spend too much time fumblefucking around with the app/website just to see whats on the menu, I'm moving on.

If you make it hard on me , I will respond in kind .

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Originally posted by V-Tail:

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Originally posted by mikeyspizza:

I'll add - the online menus that have no pricing. Sorry, ain't driving there to find out what you're hiding.

I have been able to see prices on some of these by selecting options to order online for pick-up. Not available on all, but many do offer this on the website.

Yep, I have done that also, but I don't go through the motions if I have to type in a bunch of info to get to the ordering part.

Paper Menu! QR Codes never!! Went out once and QR code only no paper menus at all. We were with the wife’s friends or I would have left. Used the friends phone. The QR code apparently went to an old menu or one at a different location and they tried to charge us different prices that were much more.
Tried being key there we have not been back.


I also will not give them a number to text me when my table is ready.
Get weird looks all the time for this one. Folks type their number into everything and wonder why they get so many spam calls.

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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.

Yup! KenAdams87@yahoo.com has frequented many places. Plus, once Ken is connected to the establishment’s wifi, it gets channeled through a VPN.

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Originally posted by Black92LX:
I also will not give them a number to text me when my table is ready.
Get weird looks all the time for this one. Folks type their number into everything and wonder why they get so many spam calls.

For a while when asked for my number, I'd just answer "No. What else ya got?" After I got the aforementioned looks, I explained that SPAM calls exploded in frequency after giving my number to only their restaurant.
I finally just signed up for a google voice phone number that rings through to my phone. As a result, 3 years later the spam calls and texts are very rare (but not totally gone).

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Originally posted by armored:
Whenever I'm asked to scan the restaurants menu or download something I ask for a printed menu.

If the restaurant can't provide a printed menu I'm outta there!

^^^ exactly, no menu - no business .... from me!

Imma just point out that QR codes are very quickly becoming very, very popular with malicious actors for taking people to the cleaners (or at least trying to).

Wouldn't take much to compromise folks at a restaurant - just a printer and a laminating machine.

My wife refuses to play this online/virtual menu crap in restaurants and will demand a paper menu each and every time.

I asked the server if I could borrow her phone to see the menu. She looked at me like I had two heads.

The having to jump through hoops to look for a menu on a company's website is a pain. A lot of times you can get around it, by looking for the restaurant on yelp and looking at a photo of the menu.

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Originally posted by jimmy123x:
The having to jump through hoops to look for a menu on a company's website is a pain. A lot of times you can get around it, by looking for the restaurant on yelp and looking at a photo of the menu.

Maybe, but that's not a useful workaround unless the photos are of reasonable quality and the menu is current. More often that not, the photos are garbage and out of date.

While I'm revisiting my rant, allow me also to complain about businesses that "maintain" a website, but only update their parallel FB page - particularly when it comes to hours of operation and other pertinent, but basic, information. As a non-FB user (which I understand is a rapidly growing percentage of the population), guess who I'm also less likely to patronize?

-Rob

Marco's Pizza is one of the most irritating, you even if you have an account, you have to go through their bullshit pick a location bit to even sign in. It's so stupid.

I want to walk in a place , sit down , have the nice lady hand me a menu and take my drink order . That's it . No exceptions . I'm old school and I will not change . There are still plenty of places that operate that way and that's who I will patronize .

I wanted some dinner (take out) while traveling recently. I checked a place online. Decent reviews. Food pics looked okay. Prices reasonable. But spidey sense was tingling so instead of calling in the order, I decided to go and then place the order.

1) prices were 30% higher on the menu vs what was indicated online.
2) no mention of paid parking - I thought parking would be free. It seems like any other strip mall. I was outta the lot in 5 so they didn’t charge me. I ain’t paying for parking on a take out order. Especially see #1.
3) rude wait staff.

I left sans ordering.

How they survive, I don’t know. Maybe they won’t. Good riddance.