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 ...

Many restaurants are now using QR menus. A QR code is placed on the table, eliminating the need for printed menus. Customers simply scan the QR code, and the entire menu appears on their phone screen.

They’re QR codes, and if they seem familiar, it’s because we've all been here before. QR codes resurged in retail after initial COVID-19 precautions from the virus meant avoiding every surface ...

HERSHEY, Pa. (WHTM) — The initial case for QR code menus was clear. “Everyone wanted to become more contactless during the pandemic,” said Steve Mellinger, a supervisor at Tröegs, a brewery and ...

Of all the pandemic-inspired business adoptions, perhaps none is as reviled as the QR-code menus. And yet, it persists. Early in the pandemic, restaurants ditched physical menus and instead revived a ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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