Depends on the type of menu. The single printed sheets are good for a rotating or seasonal menu, but you have to print a lot of them since they are single use.
The bound ones last longer, but you have to use labor hours to wipe them down to use for the next guest. And they’re more suited to a fixed menu, but they still get lost, ripped, burnt, etc.
Most independent restaurants operate with a 1%-3% profit margin, so even saving a few thousand makes a difference.
And there is the whole issue of hiring someone to design a menu who knows all the sneaky design tricks to make people spend more.
I don’t like the QR thing, but what really irritates me is when a menu is not displayed on the website, but is a pdf. That’s cost-cutting because someone decided Carol can just retype it and upload it and you don’t need an actual person running the site.
I was being a smartass. I do carry a prepaid tracphone as a burner because I’ve been stuck when my main phone breaks or gets lost, but that’s not normal behavior.
For a QR code in a restaurant it should be fine. I looked and couldn’t find any examples of that happening. Maybe you just stumbled on a new method of theivery.
This is regarding how dumb people are and recycling.
Why do people continue to lay out recycling on windy nights???
Why???
The end of my block which is a wooded area has looked like a garbage dump all winter.
Also there is a stupid law (most laws are stupid) in which they the garbage workers will not take trash bags out of cans that have lid that does not fully detach and are 55 gal.
How pathetic.
So they will take bags of trash out of a 35 gal can but not a 55 gal can.
I had 2-nice 55 gal cans and they strapped a note on them and wouldn’t empty them.
So on windy mornings now there are lids and cans blowing all over the area.
And they cry so much about plastic bags and climate change around here.
I live next to the worst neighbor in the area too, he’s in the Navy, spit shined shoes but has dog chit all over his deck. Fing Azzhole.
@Cretin78 I’m curious where you live also. I live in an unincorporated area and our trash is just dumped by the big claw and they mix recycling and garbage together.
Although I did have a garbage man yell at me once for not having bins on the curb because he has to take a picture to validate that it was not available to pick up.
In SF you would get fined for not having trash, recycling, and compost separated. I was elbows-deep in chicken bones and beer bottles because I got them mixed up once.
I’m about 8 miles south of Pittsburgh. The middle of middle class suburbia. We just had a new contract for our trash pick up, and the claw cost extra. But the company has all kinds of goofy rules that nobody gives a crap about.
They also throw all of the recyclables into the landfill, because there’s also a recycling fee, which the township does not pay. If you don’t, then to the dump it goes!
