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 ...

Restaurant patrons have had their fill of menu QR codes. Once a new-age innovation to easily and quickly access menus on your smartphone, the existence of the humble barcode plastered to the table is ...

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 & ...

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 ...

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, ...

As someone whose job requires scrolling on social media and replying to Slacks for hours on end, any chance to unplug is welcome. It’s why I stick to reading physical books, handwriting journals and ...

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Scanning a restaurant menu QR code feels quick and harmless, but in 2025, fake QR scams are silently stealing personal and financial details, warns a report by the New York Post. Here’s what can go ...

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 ...

Kristen Hawley writes about the restaurant business from San Francisco. She's the founder of Expedite, a weekly restaurant technology newsletter highlighting news and big ideas about the future of the ...

The QR code menu is being kicked to the curb in many restaurants throughout the U.S., leaving it in the past where it belongs. Reading time 2 minutes The QR code menu which restaurateurs began using ...