I did the same thing. Then when the time to pay came, they put a fee on using a credit card. So, I refused and paid cash. They brought me my change but no coins since they didn't have any. They of course rounded down with what they gave me. I refused again and paid with credit card since the cash back made the total transaction better. The card was rejected for a double swipe so I then needed to use a different card. The waitress was pissed she had to make 5 round trips to pay. Fuck their policy. No tip.
Sometimes I like to buy something....like a honey bun, or a pack of smokes and be completely incognito.....I buy it and pay cash....end of transaction......why should I suffer getting emails about honey buns for the rest of my life......
I doubt many bonafide restaurants will go for this, restaurants tend to fully prioritize making money from happy customers, and it's mostly older people who spend the most money collectively out at restaurants, for several reasons, and most older people already don't like having to use their phones, it won't necessarily be most restaurants refusing the qr code trend for ideological reasons but definitely for protecting profits, fast food chains and low end places are more popular among the the younger generations who are mostly low income wage workers who rarely have the time or money for nicer sit down restaurants, and the younger generations are far more comfortable with frequent phone use (generalizing, special exceptions aside), so I'd expect to see qr codes become more and more common for fast food and takout
We have become a society of semi-robots. If you have to have a phone - a pocket computer - to eat in a restaurant, this is broken.
The CDC triggered this with its advisory. But the CDC wants us dead or turned into robots.
Boycott QR code restaurants. As with wokeness, get woke, go broke.
I did the same thing. Then when the time to pay came, they put a fee on using a credit card. So, I refused and paid cash. They brought me my change but no coins since they didn't have any. They of course rounded down with what they gave me. I refused again and paid with credit card since the cash back made the total transaction better. The card was rejected for a double swipe so I then needed to use a different card. The waitress was pissed she had to make 5 round trips to pay. Fuck their policy. No tip.
Leaving is never not an option. Same goes for associating with losers.
I didn't say that I do.
Sometimes I like to buy something....like a honey bun, or a pack of smokes and be completely incognito.....I buy it and pay cash....end of transaction......why should I suffer getting emails about honey buns for the rest of my life......
I don't have a dumb phone, and I'm still not interested.
Applebees is not a real restaurant OP.
I doubt many bonafide restaurants will go for this, restaurants tend to fully prioritize making money from happy customers, and it's mostly older people who spend the most money collectively out at restaurants, for several reasons, and most older people already don't like having to use their phones, it won't necessarily be most restaurants refusing the qr code trend for ideological reasons but definitely for protecting profits, fast food chains and low end places are more popular among the the younger generations who are mostly low income wage workers who rarely have the time or money for nicer sit down restaurants, and the younger generations are far more comfortable with frequent phone use (generalizing, special exceptions aside), so I'd expect to see qr codes become more and more common for fast food and takout