I don't eat out much, but everything I read about QR code menus in restaurants makes me think I'd just get up and leave before ordering, anyway.
They served their purpose during Covid, but they drive me nutso now. Still, I've had to invest in the technological capability for guests to not only have the QR code menu but to be able to order from the table directly into the kitchen and bar printers. We're not doing it yet, but we have it available if/when we need it.
A lot of restaurants here have ruggedized ipads at each table. Some of them are multilingual, and they all have pictures. Not the classiest but neither are the joints that use them, and since this country never twigged to the idea of having different waitstaff assigned to different tables/zones they mean that everyone has an equal chance at getting served. Back in the day if you weren't seated near either the register or the kitchen door you'd prolly never set eyes on a server.
Yeah, I have several operational designs for a server-less restaurant. I wouldn't do it with any of our current ones (unless the Fed torpedoes the tip credit), but they might make sense for future concepts. It's definitely coming in some form.
About ten years ago there was a trend here for cafeteria style restaurants with counter service only… mostly selling Japanese or East Asian cuisine . I never got the appeal and was happy to see most of them go for good after covid
My favourite steak restaurant in Tokyo has the option of sitting at the table or sitting at the counter. Sitting at the counter puts me closer to the beer, and makes it easier to catch the eye of a server. Granted, that's not counter service as we know it here...
yeah i'm talking about like with a tray school cafeteria style... i went to one once on a date in milton keynes... i think it was called Teka or Teju or something... it had the charm and ambience of a work canteen. as i recall she was a total hatstand and spent much of the date talking about her ex leaving her... the only good thing about the counter service system as you pay as you go so it was perfectly feasible to go to the toilet and do a runner without worrying about sticking her with the bill
I hate sitting at counter on a stool with my back to the room. Give me a booth with a view of the doorway and a good solid side wall to lean against every time.
Wild Bill Hickok spent quite a bit of time not too far from here, but his fate doesn't have much to do with my own preference for facing into the room. It seems to be some kind of a genetic trait on my side of the family. Many of us don't like sitting with our back to the room, which can make seating at a restaurant interesting. It leads to conversations that alarm California tourists seated nearby: "Are you carrying?" "No." "I am." "Fine, but mind you keep an eye on the room."
Ahhh, this reminds me of the one and only time I was dealt a Royal Flush (playing Texas Hold 'Em). Was all-in, and didn't have a great hand KS, 10S. Flop came out JS, QS, AS. Didn't win the tournament though. Only got to the final table (which, out of 30,000 participants, ain't too shabby).
I dunno why this one annoys me so much - people who write monarchs' regnal numbers incorrectly. It's not Henry 8, Henry Eighth, William 111 or William 1/3 (OK, I made that last one up, I've never seen it). It's Henry VIII and William III. At a pinch "Henry the Fifth" is acceptable (if it's good enough for Shakespeare, it's good enough for me).
Comrade! My paternal grandmother taught me to write Roman numerals at the same time I learned to write Arabic numbers. Imagine my first grade teacher's surprise when she asked who could write to ten on the chalkboard, I volunteered, and proceeded to write I, II, III, IV, V...
Attention whores on Harleys who blast their hillbilly 'music' on the radio so they can hear it over the open pipes.
Anyone riding anything, sitting on anything, or just standing around on a street corner with a stereo invading public airspace. The worst: piped in Christmas music in an outside downtown area. I used to work on the fifth floor of a downtown office building and the stuff about drove me crazy one month out of every year. Some of us in the office started taking turns calling the chamber of commerce every single work day, They didn't turn the music off ("The merchants think it lifts customer spirits") but we did get the offenders to muffle the speaker aimed at our building.
At the supermarket: Wife (or girlfriend) yelling at husband asking what else they coulld have with mushy peas, since there were no pork pies. Husband (or boyfriend) yelling at wife to work it out herself ("I dunno do I?!"). I swear, some people shouldn't be let out without supervision.
Watching LSU - Alabama, and those 5 yard interval markers are driving me batshit. I understand your typical SEC student-athlete probably isn't Copernicus, but do they really need a sign to indicate the 25 is between the 20 and 30? ETA: and those wide college hashmarks are annoying me t
I've just developed a slight appreciation for Snoop Dogg but I've got no clue as to what that robot girl thought you said.
So I was trying to use youtube to play a certain commercial in my class today and... ...we had to sit through a commercial before we could watch the commercial I wanted to show them. The irony hurt.
People who can't go a short car journey without being glued to their phones. And it's even annoying when the passengers do it.
People who text or use cell phones without hands-free devices are a public menace. The expression "Hanging's too good for the likes o' them" was created before the invention of cell phones, but it applies. Hanging IS too good for such idjits. Boiling in oil would perhaps be more appropriate.
