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If I need a login, location access, and a blood oath just to see the burger price, I’m eating somewhere else.
Some should put a norm to ignore all that shit and make them go bankrupt in 2 weeks no more. Some next restaurant may learn.
That stupidity exists only, because customers allows that.
Me: turns on Desktop mode “What is this app you speak of? I’m a desktop computer.”
Website: “Right you are, here’s the menu.”They do know you are on a mobile phone, due to your screen size and touch input, which are data points your browser automatically reports, even in desktop mode.
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This was interesting, thank you.
I wonder why it got my GPU wrong, maybe that is a Firefox protection, or maybe just an error. It said Radeon R9 200 Series, way older than my current card
Firefox do fake your GPU model, yes.
That’s part of the tracking protection. You still need to tell that you do have a GPU, for various reasons (hardware acceleration, etc.), so it provides a generic one, the same for everyone, so it cannot be used for tracking.
My vpn must be doing work, cause it was categorically wrong on EVERYTHING other than device type.
Unfortunately soon everybody will be like “no you aren’t, nobody can afford a real desktop computer anymore, I know you have a phone.”
I’m finding this happening in person as well. Why does your restaurant refuse to list prices on the menu, tv menu screen, and take out menus? This is fast food, not fine dining. Why are you hiding this from your customers?? I just want tacos!
Because all that data makes them billions.
You are the taco.
I wish. I’m talking about single location family owned stores. If my little “los zapatos” or “burro burrito” were on the take, I feel like they’d expand
They’ll make that money, and then some after you select «Agree»
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Fuck Adobe, progenitors of SAAS AKA subscriptions for life.
Because people are more likely to buy impulsively if they don’t see the price. I don’t go places like that because I don’t encourage manipulative bullshit.
I remember once at a diner with some friends I ordered pancakes and orange juice without looking at the menu, and was pissed when the orange juice was like $10. Now I always check.
Does that work on people? I just spend 5 asking about prices every time I show up
Loads of people, for many reasons, feel uncomfortable when interacting with strangers, so the pressure of having to make a decision while not wanting to ask encourages the impulsivity.
Remember kids, roughly 95% of marketing is about fucking with your head when you’re next in line. the other 5% is about combating buyer’s remorse so that word of mouth stays positive.
Worse, I hate those TV menus that flash up the options for a few seconds then spend the next minute playing coke ads.
I’ll just leave like damn i ain’t doing all that like OP but sans bonus panel. Already have really but that was more about jacked up prices and my city scamming people with a badly considered paper bag bylaw where the costs are passed down to the consumer on purpose as a covid half measure made permanent.
Because they are immensely cheap.
Me: Show me your menu.
Them: Not without all this info.
Me: No. I’ll eat someplace else.
Them: Shocked Pikachu face.
Something similar - I was looking to book a spa day for my wife for Mother’s Day. I just skipped over every place that wanted me to sign up to see the availabilities. Oooohhhhh wellll
everyone go eat your favorite enchilada or you'll make me cry
Fuck fuck fucking fuck fuckity fuck fuck. I just wrote out some long comment and had to delete it when I saw the news. We like to do our annual holidays (like valentimes) on different days so we can get into our favorite restaurants easy. I just found out my favorite brunch place in San Francisco closed in January. I want to be in the angry dome but I think I’m gonna be in the sad shed instead. I was just thinking about how I lost my favorite enchiladas and never had the chance to take the time to learn to teach myself to cook them, life was too crazy back then. Now they are gone forever… Forever… Forever…
I’m experiencing some kinda sympathetic sadness about a food place I never knew about.
it was the Squat and Gobble. with a name like that, how could you eat anywhere else for brunch?
Hey now, I’m sure you’ll find another good enchiladas place! It’ll take some time, but another one will crop up so I wouldn’t worry. Enchiladas haven’t gone extinct lol. But yes, I totally agree with trying to learn how to make your own. I find great food comes from those with passion, instead of greed; so you never know - maybe you’ll make an even better enchilada recipe
I also agree with generally doing annual holidays on off days. But this Mother’s Day is going to be my wife’s first, so I had to book it for the same weekend at least lol
i’m tryning very hard to extinct the enchilada the way i eat them tho
I went to a restaurant that had qr codes on the table to download an app. I asked for a menu and they don’t have any.
I just fucking left. Fuck that.
This type of malarkey exploded in popularity in the UK during COVID, mostly due to chains trying to make money from data during tough times.
Most of the time was just a multi-megabyte PDF to download (with a double digit percentage of it being outdated) and everybody hated it.
Some still insist on it and wonder why they’re going bankrupt. But if there’s one thing the British hospitality industry does well, it’s… not hospitality. At least not when combined with technology.
Same thing, but the waiter took my order directly without going via their website/app/whatever-the-fuck-was-behind-the-qr-code when I refuse to use their online system as I had already seen their menu outside and knew what I wanted.
Funnily enough about 5 minutes later two people sat in the table next to mine and they also asked to order direct from the waiter who commented to them “Yeah, we actually have quite a number of people who don’t want to use the online system”.
Mind you, I’m in a country where that shit isn’t at all common and it just comes out as them trying to skint on service and most places I’ve seen that opened up with digital ordering systems ended up closing down after a while.
I bet that if they didn’t give people the option to order via the waiter their business would’ve already gone down.
Someone in a party I was in once asked, and was then given an iPad with the menu open on it.
how did we do? click here for 25% tip!
How big was the app? Several hundred megabytes?
Let me guess, they don’t have customer WiFi
They do: The current password is on the menu.
Worse, those meal services like Hello Fresh, Blue Apron, Home Chef…
“What are your meals like? I have specific dietary needs and preferences.”
“Subscribe to our service to find out!”
As soon as that second panel happens, I am closing the tab.
It’s time to move to cash only. These places need our money, and if they want it, it’s time to play ball.
Ps: please raise your kids better so they, too, can have a good future. Being silent does nothing. Gotta be a squeaky wheel
Say: “Can I order directly without using the app?”
If they say “No”, walk out.
It’s like any other store were you come in and if you don’t find anything suitable for you, you leave. You really have no obligation, moral or otherwise, to buy.
I did this online the other week. After finally finding what I needed I tried to order and got that bullshit.
After trying to buy about £4000 worth of stuff I then find I can’t checkout as a guest and need to download an app and sign up.
I email to ask if I can just buy it as a guess and get a “Yeah, sure, just email with a list and we’ll invoice you” type reply.
I’m about to do it when I realise I’m the one jumping through hoops here, and it’s all bullshit. If they can do the guest thing through email then should give you the option on the website.I order it from a competitor. It’s a bit more expensive, but only slightly. And no hoops or bullshit to contend with.
When they try to make me jump through hoops I just give my money to someone else or throw a substitute burger into the air fryer.
No, not the Impossible Burger, just the regular one.
Impossible!!
Yes, that one, now tell me the damn price!
(I’m vegan)
Do you ever miss old fashioned bean and lentil burgers? I’ll eat an impossible burger, but I don’t love them as much as they’re often the only plant based option these days.
My local grocery has black bean burger patties. Grill it up, on a bun, lettuce, tomato, onion, mustard, ketchup… Damn fine burger
I used to love portabello burgers, but I haven’t seen one that wasn’t mince in a while
Yep, “original” vegan food is so much tastier than all the modern “fake” stuff. I eat whatever, but I’d honestly choose one of those bean burgers if they were offered anywhere.
That’s funny, I’ve been veg my whole life and initially found the impossible/beyond stuff off-putting because it reminded me of eating meat. Once I got past the ick I actually really enjoy the texture and flavor compared to the old stuff.
I especially don’t miss the bargain-bin-sitting-in-the-back-of-the-freezer-for-2-years-drier than-the-Sahara black bean patties.
Are those the black bean patties? Cuz those things are fucking delicious. I’m not vegan or vegetarian or anything, I just like tasty food, and you guys have come up with some good stuff! The impossible burgers are pretty decent too - I’d go for one of those over a ‘beef’ fastfood patty any day (calling those horrid things ‘beef’ is a stretch right out the gate, but you get gist).
Hell yeah, bean burgers are fantastic. But I’m glad to have the impossible option too, and there are times where I get a craving for it. I think with them being more widespread, it’s easier to get tired of them. Plus there’s something… creatively satisfying about a vegan meal that does it’s own thing and shows off what it can do rather than just substituting.
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Near me, only mediocre chains do this. Everyone knows the hole in the walls are where the real foods at (and that, we have plenty of).
That said, they often do cash only because fuck 3% credit card fees, lol.
I think they mainly do cash only because fuck paying taxes.
There’s other ways the irs imputes the income they assume you had in cash, so you still need to keep damn good records.
I go to a restaurant, I see the price for food, I ask for the food, I eat it, I pay for the food, then I leave.
If I can’t do any of those things when I go out to eat … I’m not staying or eating at this restaurant.
I won’t bother making the trip if they don’t have an online menu easily viewed by clicking on a button or as the default page. Gotta make sure the price and likely quality are aligned.
I have ridiculous (yes I mean that literally I make fun of them myself) food issues. Like, people who don’t know me think I’m autistic because I freak out like I might die over my food (it’s just ptsd because a specific someone in my social circle insists on triggering me by bringing a poison that only works on me to all the food events. Like imagine I was superman and they always brought kryptonite fork and steak knife and eyeball spoon to dinner
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