• books@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I had some friends in town and we went to a place that made us use the qr code for the menu and had to order directly from the app and pay (and tip).

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      10 months ago

      Same, but it was so busy that nobody at the table could load the menu; The restaurant’s tiny little closet server was essentially DDOS’ed. So the waiter had to verbally list the entire menu in the noisy restaurant.

      Even worse, it was a restaurant where you order in rounds (Korean BBQ.) So every time the waiter came back to see what we wanted next, they had to list everything off again. By the third round, he just had a handwritten list he was handing to the table.

      I love tech. But there are some things that just don’t need to be replaced by tech. And the fact that the restaurant didn’t even have any paper menus as a backup was jarring.

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        10 months ago

        I love tech. But there are some things that just don’t need to be replaced by tech.

        Dude. That resonated with me