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 ...

If you often visit cafes and restaurants, you’ve likely found yourself scanning a QR code to access the menu. They typically request your name, phone number and email address, and despite the constant ...

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 ...

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 ...

QR code usage is soaring in the pandemic — but malicious versions aren’t something that most people think about. Quick Response (QR) codes are booming in popularity and hackers are flocking to exploit ...

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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 ...

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, ...

The coronavirus pandemic inspired widespread technology changes across the restaurant industry, many of which improved efficiency, the customer experience, or both, but it remains to be seen which of ...