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 ...

Two employees at the D.C. restaurant Busboys and Poets train on a QR code menu system near the start of the pandemic in May 2020. (Amanda Voisard for The Washington Post) I’m not exactly what you ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Miami-Dade County commissioner wants to change the law to mandate restaurants offer printed menus alongside QR-code menus, like the one pictured above. stnazkul Getty Images/iStockphoto Some diners ...

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 ...

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 keep ...

They’re QR codes, and if they seem familiar, it’s because we've all been here before. QR codes resurged in retail after initial COVID-19 precautions from the virus meant avoiding every surface ...

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 ...