Post B5U6s4C83RxIWF4YJE by NudelnAlDente@mstdn.social
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 (DIR) Post #B5U6s4C83RxIWF4YJE by NudelnAlDente@mstdn.social
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       Went to a cocktail bar last night fully intending to order a cocktail.Bartender: "We don't have a physical menu. You have to check us out on #Instagram to get the cocktail list."I find them on Instagram only to discover that it's impossible to see their menu there when not logged in. I. Don't. Have. An. Instagram. Account.Me: "Yeah, I'll have a small beer, thanks." (at less than quarter of the price of a cocktail)🙄 FFS businesses, stop getting captured by #Meta. It hurts your business.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5V6gwgBqkLJBSn3aa by raganwald@social.bau-ha.us
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       @NudelnAlDente There was a nice small Korean fried chicken joint in my town. It had menus. It was close to the library, and I regularly lunched there. Last time I was there, the menus were gone, replaced by a QR code at the table. You get the menu *and* place your order with your device.The joint is still there, but I'm not. No specific reason or rant, I guess it just felt like a harbinger of future enshittification. I should drive by and see if it has been replaced by a vending machine.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5V6gwzKhZeg8pkLQW by heafnerj@mstdn.social
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       @raganwald @NudelnAlDente A local family run Mexican place with great food provides the option of paying with a QR code. I tried it and somewhere in the process a hidden app (forgot the name at the moment) was silently downloaded and installed on my iPhone without my knowledge or consent. Nope. I still eat there but only pay with credit card or cash.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5V6kqfs7PsdiYVDgu by DMTomas@mastodon.social
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       @heafnerj @raganwald @NudelnAlDente I always have a thought, to replice some of them to lemonparty, goatsee or some other “internet safety basics visual learning tool” from the older ages - I never will, but I fantasise about it almost every time I’m in a place that pushes me to use qr codes….
       
 (DIR) Post #B5V6ofRtnQWa3qmuJc by BeckaOhNoes@mas.to
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       @NudelnAlDente The second some place tells me to check their menu on... Fucking... Instagram? I walk out. Lmao. What the hell.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5V6sVHrWHuZhdvFiK by webidebi@mastodon.social
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       @NudelnAlDente They wouldn't have even got a beer out of me.  B-bye...
       
 (DIR) Post #B5V6wPi8C6iTZC4eG0 by lenotaire@mastodon.social
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       @NudelnAlDente I once went to a buffet restaurant where the dishes you wanted needed to be sent to a Whatsapp account. Did I not have (and still not) such an account, back then I did not even had a Whatsapp-capable phone. No other option than to leave unserved...
       
 (DIR) Post #B5V70zKBj0JPBB3XMm by ZoidbergForPresident@kolektiva.social
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       @NudelnAlDente No physical menu means they do not want money, period.Same thing if your menu is only in english and your restaurant is in friggin Brussels! ffs...
       
 (DIR) Post #B5V76H7myLHlphmGZs by progo@boop.city
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       @NudelnAlDente the proper response to this nonsense is a decisive and not quiet"I cannot order from your menu that won't stay still on the TV." or"I do not use Instagram."and walk out without looking back.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5V7A9icRvLm1Qr4Iy by jschauma@mstdn.social
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       @NudelnAlDente New coffee place opened up around the corner. Went in there, nobody pays me any attention, no obvious line to order, no cash register. I’m told I can scan a QR code to download an app to place an order. Walked across the street to next place instead.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5V7Dzi9bCOS8uT3ce by pattykimura@beige.party
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       @NudelnAlDente This is crazy. I know of a coin-op laundry vendor who is swapping all coin machines into debit - kiosk pay machines in ELDERLY low income housing. Many are in their 80s who have no idea how to use this kind of tech, don't have debit cards or cell phones or know how to swipe or know what a kiosk is. They have to do laundry, have no cars, and have incontinence, and will stop doing wash, get infections and be relegated to the humiliation of filth because some corporate younger person decided to eliminate the human job of emptying the coins to increase profit.I hate this.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5V7HuUOxImN6cu0QK by karl55@troet.cafe
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       @NudelnAlDente I often find the same thing in restaurants: a QR code instead of a menu. And that’s it – I’m out of there.