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, ...

What started as a clever pandemic solution has quickly become one of the most disliked trends in modern dining. From tech ...

Venture outside and you’ll soon see them. Printed on posters and signs, pasted on pub walls and hotel lobbies, taped to picnic tables in beer gardens: QR codes. This story originally appeared on WIRED ...

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 ...

It’s no secret that younger diners find using a digitized QR code menu a positive experience. But why are there still popular opinions against an efficient and well-meaning QR code menu? Most of this ...

Darron Cardosa is a food service professional with over 30 years of restaurant experience. He has written more than 1,500 articles and blog posts about the hospitality industry, including for Food & ...

If you haven’t dined out since the before the pandemic, you’ll find your smartphone to be a critical part of your next trip to a restaurant, and it might be that way for years to come. Most ...

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 ...

QR codes are having a moment. Chances are, anyone visiting a restaurant during the height of the pandemic was either introduced or reintroduced to scanning those black squares first made popular in ...

Boomer or not, this recent change at restaurants hasn't been warmly embraced by anyone.