ZeroCool"We do things a little differently here!"
intensely_humanWe like to sit you down, and show you a menu. We take pride on our chewable, edible food. These little fellers here are silverware.
donThis (gestures expansively to a cup) is what we here like to call a cup! It’s frequently used to hold liquids such as water, which is exactly what I’ve just poured into it.
“Honey, they have drinking bowls with handles!”
“Babe, I think this place might be out of our price range. Why can’t we just go to the place with tableside hamster bottles again?”
“Unlike many other restaurants, we offer a choice of beverages other than water. Some of those beverages will intoxicate you.”
What if I don’t want my water in a “cup”?
You will leave this establishment immediately, you barbarous doorknob. 🫵😤👉
idunnololz“We do family style, which means the portions are more than you can conceivably eat. That way you won’t complain when we overcharge you by a factor of 10.”
ivanafterall"We do ask that you not share..."
🇸🇵🇪🇨🇺🇱🇦🇹🇪🇷But if you do share, we’ll be happy to charge a split plate fee.
“You try stopping her from sharing my food. I have yet to find success in that endeavor.”
I run a restaurant, and encourage people to share. My burgers are 3/4 pounders on garlic Texas Toast, bacon, onion rings, spicy aioli, Dijon and fancy pickles with old white cheddar. If I can sell those for 17, turn a profit and encourage people with smaller appetites to order one and cut it in half, these chain restaurants with 1 dollar input cost instead of 6 can fuck right off.
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I mean, you can always pay more money for those tiny plates they sell at super fancy expensive places if that’s more your thing. lol
DharkStareThe only time I ever needed a waiter to explain how things worked was when I ate at a Paula Dean restaurant. That place did not work like a normal restaurant.
radixHow was it different? How did it work?
People don’t order individual meals. You order a meal for the whole table which is then brought out to the whole table to share. They provide unlimited refills of everything. So the whole table has to get together to decide what entree and sides they want. They don’t let you take any leftovers home either. Everyone gets butter rolls and a dessert.
If you go to their site you can see the menu but your choices are a 2, 3, or 4 entree meal with 4 sides.
That’s a lot like a traditional Chinese restaurant, except, yknow, Paula deen stuff
Fogo de Chao is unusual, too. The options are whether you want the salad bar or not, and what beverage. Otherwise, you have a thing that’s red on one side and green on the other. If you want the servers carrying different cuts of meat to stop by to offer you some to put on your plate, you flip that to red. If you’re good, you flip to green.
agent_flounderI thought it was red for stop green for go meat
It is, just from the waiters POV
It is, they didn’t follow the instructions very well.
Unless they do have it right and it really is different to every other restaurant that’s like that.
thehatfoxThe ones that amuse me are the restaurants that don’t do table service, but still have a multiple staff on the floor and door seemingly only to tell diners they don’t do table service.
Destroyer of Worlds 3000“All you have to do is scan a qr code, sit on your phone for 5-10 minutes to figure out our menu system, get water for yourself at the station over there, get your own silverware, pick up drinks at the bar, grab this vibrating puck, and pick up food on the other side of the restaurant. Don’t forget to tip!”
Is this still common or are people beating a dead horse?
The whole QR code thing was big during the pandemic but every restaurant in my city deactivated their QR menu.
I say that as a person who loves ordering from a QR and just having the server bring it over. Fight me.
I’ve still seen it quite a few times. It’s only annoying when it’s the only option to order.
The worst one was when they got mad at us for making 20 separate orders (group of 20 everyone orders on their own phone). Apparently we were supposed to take half an hour passing 1 phone around hoping the shitty webapp doesn’t wipe our order.
I’m not sure what the OP had in mind but with their description I was picturing the fast dining places, kinda like Panera bread. Sometimes in the more trendy places where they put like dandelions or some shit on sandwiches they will have a really convoluted bs system that requires as little human interaction as possible. But then they need all this extra staff because the system they made is confusing
ZoidsbergVancouver is littered with QR Only restaurants, which is extra fun when we take out our boomer tech-illiterate parents.
Yeah but Vancouver is famous for never admitting it’s wrong.
Pikaa lot of them just kept both systems around here, which is nice because I love the ability to decide “man I could use another side” without having to slflag the server down
Both is definitely the best. As a software developer I see a potential SSOT violation but it’s not that bad. The paper menu is a representation. It’s a cache expiry problem which, as someone who’s worked in software and in restaurants, isn’t as hard as a tough bussing problem.
It’s been so long since I’ve eaten out, but I feel like I’ve seen QR codes quite recently.
One was a yoga studio. I saw yoga happening (big plate glass windows at street level so it was hard to miss), and on a whim I thought “Well this seems like a nice place”. A teacher was finishing up and I asked her about a schedule, and it’s all online!
It’s such a minor thing but it annoys me so much. I want their class schedule stuck to my fridge with a magnet. I don’t want more time looking at this god-awful thing. Yoga is me trying to touch grass, get out of the house.
Maybe I’m some kind of bauhaus idealist, but I think paper in hand could play a nice role in turning that plate glass window full of yogis doing yoga into some walk-in traffic.
It annoys me because the world I grew up in, every business had some kind of paper handout with info. A yoga class schedule, assuming it’s stable, is the perfect thing to stick to my fridge and notice sometimes.
Being an old fogie sucks.
When a good portion of them end up just thrown out, IMO this is a step in the right direction. If you want it in your fridge you could write it down or print it. And then anyone who doesn’t want it on their fridge or doesn’t care enough to open the website doesn’t cause another piece of coloured and printed paper to just be waste.
I mean, if they can just keep a handful printed or be ready to print them if requested that would easily meet both needs
I’ve NEVER seen a QR restaraunt
I was in a Buffalo Wild Wings recently that only had the menu available via QR code. You still ordered like normal, but in order to see the options, you had to scan the code.
That matches my BWW experience from a few months ago.
The only thing worse is when they don’t explain that, and you’re stuck wondering why a waiter hasn’t come over. Yes I understand that the QR code is a menu. No I don’t think it’s more efficient to change the concept of a “restaurant” after 5,000 years.
Best thing is, last place that did this had a unique “fusion” menu. It’s not like the food was self-explanatory. So the waiters had to come to every table anyway, but it was hard to flag them down.
Btw restaurants with menu to choose from aren’t that old
Yes they are. They were already ubiquitous in the Roman Empire. Pompeii has them in its ruins. It’s very recognizable as areas with seating and areas with food preparation / serving.
The point of contention is the menu, not the sit down and eat part.
That’s what they thought, till a Romanian grandma used it to make wool gloves
Herbal GamerI feel like you’re gonna give us a link to back this up.
And the menus?
Doubt. Even the Uruk Hai knew of menus
“Go get it yourself, you fuck! PS, can I have a 47% tip? It’s pre-filled!”
I once went to a pizza place that had a slogan like “pizza done different” and you went through the a chipotle style line and picked out crust, sauce, toppings, then they made your pizza and gave it to you. I couldn’t figure out that was any different from a regular place.
They fart on the dough.
So still nothing different?
Most pizza places dont have a Chipotle style line I guess
And the lawyers were careful to use the ambiguous participle “done”.
If they’d gone precise with “Pizza ordered different” it definitely wouldn’t sound so fun
“Pizza ordered different” LMAO
I know both Mod Pizza and Blaze Pizza do this, so yeah, it’s not any different at all.
Were they the the personal size ones? IIRC they are priced as such, and affordable to get multiple toppings it doesn’t hike up the price. Also was a food court thing where the pizzas are made in like 3 minutes instead of 20. In a stone or brick oven. Idk that’s dope imo I would love grabbing that on a lunch break.
justabigemptyholeThen they slide your silverware or straw over to you and say …and there’s that."
“Yes of course, that”
proceeds to bite into spoon
Stupid trendy restaurants with their gallium flatware.
“Our food cutlery will melt in your mouth!”
worst spoon ever