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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 ...

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At the Brown Jug Restaurant, there are QR codes on every table. First adopted during the COVID-19 pandemic, digital menus are now the norm at the Ann Arbor mainstay. “We’re keeping the QR code around, ...

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, ...

I get it, printing prices are high, and as a business owner, you need to trim those costs wherever you can. Printing restaurant menus can vary widely in cost depending on style, finish, and order size ...

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 ...

The pandemic inspired a lot of institutions to adopt cost-saving processes that make life worse for their customers while reducing their payroll. Hotels cut back on housekeeping as a supposed “safety ...

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Amanda Kludt is the former editor-in-chief of Eater. This post originally appeared on October 24, 2020 in Amanda Kludt’s newsletter “From the Editor,” a roundup of the most vital news and stories in ...

The Man Who Charmed the Women on The View, & Singing for the Poor in Rome Medicine at Michigan Shamefully Honors Jack Kevorkian Delighting in Certain Violence: Guarding Our Souls in the 2025 USA Memo ...

In 1994, the Japanese automotive-components manufacturer introduced the Quick Response (or QR) code as a way to track vehicles and parts during manufacturing. Since that time, the scannable ...