Technology can be convenient, but pass the paper menu, please!

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 ...

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 ...

A soggy or smudged QR code won't work, something that Jay Sanders, owner of Drastic Measures, a bar in Shawnee, Kansas, learned the hard way. When the bar opened in June 2020, he printed the QR code ...

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 ...

PORT CHESTER, N.Y. - The dining-out experience has been ever-changing since restaurants reopened during COVID, but three years later, it’s just about as normal as it was pre-2020. Part of Lizzie ...

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, ...

As someone whose job requires scrolling on social media and replying to Slacks for hours on end, any chance to unplug is welcome. It’s why I stick to reading physical books, handwriting journals and ...