The "temporary" pandemic fix of digital-only dining has officially overstayed its welcome, sparking a massive backlash across ...

What started as a pandemic solution for contactless dining has become a permanent feature in many restaurants—but growing numbers of customers say they’re tired of scanning codes just to see a menu.

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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 ...

Perhaps no symbol is as emblematic of dining out in the modern era as the QR code. It graces our tables at restaurants, beckoning us to pull out our phones and scan. QR is short for "quick response," ...

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 & ...

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, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about food safety, traceability and digital food science. MEXICO CITY, MEXICO - JULY 03: A costumer reads the QR code to ...

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’m still not ...

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, ...

Do you miss the days of thumbing through a sticky, laminated booklet to order your food? Sick of restaurants and their frustrating electronic menus? Fear not, for [Guy Dupont] and his QR code menu ...

Like many ambitious restaurants around town, the newly opened Pastore leaves no detail unturned: Customers are handed cold towels that chill in a fridge set precisely at 40 degrees, white tablecloths ...