The option still seems pretty nice to have.
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Daisyifyoudo@lemmy.world 10 months agoYeah sorry, if I can view the menu from my phone instead of touching a menu that 6000 other people have touched, without having to deal with either the server taking it away or it being in the way on my table, I don’t see why I would want or need an actual physical menu
nicolairathjen@lemmy.world 10 months ago
bob_wiley@lemmy.world 10 months ago
QR codes as menus are a security risk. A bad actor could make up some stickers and put them on the table in place of the menu QR code. The code could then take the user to a malicious site, that they think they should be able to trust.
LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 10 months ago
Even a restaurant’s legit web site may require cookies or some other thing that not everyone is comfortable with
Daisyifyoudo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I see your point, but that seems highly improbable. That a bad actor would be willing and able to successfully create a QR Code that looks enough like the restaurant’s QR and that neither the patrons nor the establishment itself would notice. Not only improbable, but the roi for the scammer seems very poor.
bob_wiley@lemmy.world 10 months ago
No one working at the restaurant is analyzing the pixels in a QR code to see if they are in the right spot. A QR looks like a QR code. Show someone 10 QR codes and ask them to pick the one from their restaurant, no way anyone is getting that right based on anything more than dumb luck.
The fake one could even forward on to the normal menu after it does the nasty bits, assuming it’s just installing something that will run in the background. This seems like a great way to get some malware out into the wild, especially if it can’t self-replicate.
Daisyifyoudo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They might not be analyzing, but its not like restaurant’s qr codes are just plain generic qr codes. They are are all branded, so effort would have to be put into making them appear to be authentic. And I think it’s improbable that staff wouldn’t notice. And again, the roi for the bad actor seems incredibly poor.
JustAnotherGuy@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
I’m with you on this, I live in a country where a digital menu is not a given and I hate it more than people who prefer physical menus seem to hate digital menus. I do agree that both should be available as an option
twistypencil@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Your phone is 10x dirty as a toilet seat
Daisyifyoudo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You’ve never seen my phone. And I don’t use it as a toilet seat.
Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I don’t see why I should need to pull up my phone to order food at a restaurant.
Daisyifyoudo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I don’t think you should “have to”. I think physical menus should always be available. But if both are available, I certainly think the digital is superior in every way
Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Fair enough. Both is better