I don’t know how common is this around the world but I’ve recently been to a lot of restaurants where they’ve stopped giving people a physical menu! Now I see QR codes everywhere where I have to scan to see the menu.

I’d like to see myself as a tech guy but this is nonsense. Give me the menu. I don’t want to scan some QR code or be forced to give away my phone number so I can order some coffee or eat some cake.

Maybe I don’t have a smartphone, maybe I don’t have cellular or Wi-Fi connection, or maybe I simply don’t want to scan some random code in a random place and visit a random web site. And I was almost tolerating all of that until I was told that some cafes and restaurants force people to sign up on a third-party web site to get the menu and they are forced to pay online for the meals.

It’s wrong at every level. I want the printed menu. Maybe some people are fine with this or even like it but I’m not and I’m pretty sure there are a lot of people like me so even if you’re doing this privacy-violating menu thing, have some printed normal menus so concerned people like me can eat. We pay you too, you know?