I don't eat out a lot, but I'm wondering...

[Mr. Scorpio]

Have you ever gone out for a sit down meal and instead of a classic menu, has the restaurant ever handed you an iPad-type electronic menu?

I'm not talking about stationary tablets with pay points for carry out or whatever. I mean like an iPad that that a server hands you as a menu.

[dchill]

1. In a word, no.

[msongs]

2. ive gotten menus where u had to use QR code to read THEIR menu on OUR phone.

we declined putting their stuff on our phone and left

[Luciferous]

14. We went to a restaurant that did this. They said

it was a Covid precaution but that they also had regular menus if you preferred it.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. No but at a couple of restaurants at Walt Disney World, you use QR codes to see menu

You have to read the menu on your iphone

[Inkey]

4. Not yet

But I wouldn't be surprised down the road.
Many of the places I have ate at are using
plastic coated menus just like before Covid.
These seem to be wiped down after use.
However some items are no longer available
or prices have changed along the way.
Restaurant's are adapting to the new normal,
it seems.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. The restaurants that have code thing also have physical

menus. I know, because I'm not a sophisticated enough phone user to do the code. Plus, I rarely actually have my phone with me.

[rubbersole]

6. My favorite Mexican restaurant just went to no cash.

Touchscreen ordering and paying. It might be easier for the kitchen staff and checkout personnel, but it's seemingly one step closer to robots preparing our food. I still go but don't like it.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

7. I wonder if they send the iPads through the dishwasher to disinfect?

This sounds like a strange menu mechanism.

[ProfessorGAC]

8. A Simple Wipe Down...

...50% isopropanol would do, and wouldn't harm the tablet. (That's the microbiologist go to.)
That said, unless a restaurant changes their menu regularly, this seems an expensive way to provide the diner info.
I get that it could be linked so the order hits the line immediately, but that saves 30 seconds.
Just doesn't seem cost efficient.

[FSogol]

9. Or, throw them on the grill for a few minutes,

[ProfessorGAC]

10. Oh Yeah!

I should have thought of that!
Deep fryer would work, too.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

12. I like my menu medium-rare, over easy, please. nt

[wnylib]

17. I thought it had to be 70% isopropanol to be effective.

[ProfessorGAC]

18. It's Sold At 70%

Or 99%.
Higher concentrations evaporate a little quicker so; 1) more cooling by evaporation, which slows down bacterial respiration, reducing penetration; 2) reduces time of exposure.
Now, the difference between 50 & 70 is quite small, but 50% also reduces exposure of the user.
So, it's the most efficacious concentration, a bit safer, and since water is cheap, more cost effective.

[Midnight Writer]

11. Yes, a few years ago.

I'd never used a tablet or smartphone and had no idea what to do with it, so I asked the waitress some questions.

She was very dismissive ("everything you need is on the menu&quot , watching the old-timer fumbling with the new-fangled gadget, so I left without ordering.

[csziggy]

13. Yes - at an Applebees

I was with a group of eight or nine and we were expected to pass the tablet around the tablet and each of us order on it. Rather than take a few minutes for each of us to look at our menus, then give a waitress our orders, it took over a half hour for all of us to go through the menu the same tablet, place our orders, then attempt to amend them as we heard what the others were ordering.

Last time I will ever go to an Applebees!

[SharonClark]

15. That was inefficient and not customer friendly.

I’d never go back either.

[Mr.Bill]

16. It also slows down the turnover of tables,

which I think would not be good for Apoplebee's bottom line when busy.

[csziggy]

20. Actually that is only one reason I won't go back

On a previous visit I found out that all their main dishes are pre-made and you can even ask for a sauce to be held back. I've very sensitive to hot peppers and on a trip I just wanted a plain, grilled chicken breast for dinner - this was pre-tablet days. They had a grilled chicken dish but with a sauce that had jalapenos in it. I asked if I could just have the breast, but the waitress told me that the dish was pre-made, frozen and all they did was heat it up. I ended up with a salad since everything else on their meu either had hot peppers or was unappealing to me.

Applebees is not worth my time to try to eat there. If my group goes there for their after meeting lunches, I nope out.

[yellowdogintexas]

19. Chili's does this It is annoying as hell

I don't like their food much so only go there if a family member wants to do a birthday meal there.

Fort Worth's legendary Joe T Garcia's only takes cash. Their ATM does a brisk business. Considering how huge that place is I have wondered if the bank ever has to restock it more than once a day.

[jcgoldie]

21. I noticed a lot of them started using QR codes on the table during covid

To avoid passing physical menus between people.

[Marthe48]

22. Bob Evans is still traditional

If I ever go in and sit down somewhere else, it'll probably be a whole new experience