The motivation for the about-face is simple, restaurateurs said: Diners just hate QR-code menus. “They are almost universally disliked,” Ms. Hawley said. One reason is etiquette.

Square is launching QR codes for restaurants and shops that let customers order from outside or at their table, browse a menu on their phone, pay remotely, and then have food brought out to them.

Of all the pandemic-inspired business adoptions, perhaps none is as reviled as the QR-code menus. And yet, it persists. Early in the pandemic, restaurants ditched physical menus and instead ...

Restaurant patrons have had their fill of menu QR codes. Once a new-age innovation to easily and quickly access menus on your smartphone, the existence of the humble barcode plastered to the table ...

If you don’t know what a restaurant QR code is, I envy you. It’s the black-and-white square code you find on a placard at the table when you are seated, asking you to scan it with your phone ...

I have cautiously resumed dining in restaurants occasionally, and so have found myself scanning QR codes to access the menu online. It’s a quick and easy process hiding a surprisingly large ...

Many operators replaced traditional menus with QR codes at the table; those codes took customers to an online menu they could view on their phones. ... Dunkin’s numbers were flat.

The popularity of QR codes continues to fall, according to MustHaveMenus, which says it has seen a drastic drop in the number of scans which dropped by roughly 27% between April 1 and May 16 this ...

The QR code menu served many purposes during the height of the pandemic, but its time may have passed. One veteran server says its time to say goodbye to the QR code menu and bring back paper ...

Plus, with QR codes, hosts or servers don’t have to waste time handing out menus to customers. That may ease the burden on a restaurant that’s already short-staffed, as many are.