Getting a bit fed up with modern trends.  For example using QR codes for menus in restaurants etc.  Was in Manchester Airport recently.  Had some English cash I wanted to spend before coming back to  the EIRE.  Was hungry. So decided to have a meal and a pint at the airport. and get rid of cash,. Perfect.

Sat down.  Called waitress over . Can I have a menu please?  Was informed I have to use the qr code to see the menu.  Then when I decided what I wanted told her.  ''Oh no I can't take your order you have to download an app and order on that''. I told her I want to pay cash.  ''We dont accept cash''. f**k sake.  So download said app and the thing wouldnt work to take my payment for some reason.

So then had to tell the waitress the app isnt taking payment she informs me she doesnt know what to do.  So calls the manager over. 

f**k that sh*te.  Just take my order FFS and let me pay however the f**k I want.

90s take me back.

These systems were introduced due to a thing called Covid - You may be familiar with it...!

Load of bollox.  Its money saving for businesses.  Less printing costs, less staff costs etc..  Even the season tickets are no more.  A poxy code on your phone and half the stadium have problems getting in with it.

Fair enough - I guess you know more than my friends who work in hospitality. 

So they will get rid now then I take it?

So its for covid but said establishments have no problem cramming people in with no social distancing?

Technology is supposed to make things more convenient but some of this sh*te is anything but convenient.  Is it more convenient to pick up a menu and read it or have to open up a QR scanner and download a menu?  Then there can be wifi issues. If you are in America for example and the wifi is dodgy you have to use your roaming data which costs a fortune.

As I said season tickets are all on your phone now.  I prefer a card.  Making day trips from the Riviera here to Lansdowne.  Your battery can run low.  HAlf the stadium couldnt even get them to work at the last game.  Big long queues to get in with the delays.

Some will, some won't. Been a mixed bag in places I've been into. 

Some will keep it as they see it as a money save, some will get rid of it as their brand/establishment is based around personal service.

The UK is definitely moving this way in certain areas, rightly or wrongly. Some racecourses are now no longer accepting cash (on course bookies the only place to use cash)

So you are agreeing with me now after arguing it was for covid safety

No, my original statement was:

"These systems were introduced due to a thing called Covid - You may be familiar with it...!"

If smart phones can ultimately become as affordable as more primitive models were, and can endure in the same way, and as technology becomes more and more relevant, it will become much easier to use apps, QR codes etc.

If you think this is annoying, wait until the AI killer robots are running the show 

Would have just walked out tbh.

Its not a Covid thing either, been around well before it.

colemanY2K wrote: a load of places in london no longer accept cash. tbh i rarely use it so it doesn't bother me.

Cash isn't a problem, most people pay with cards or Android/Apple Pay but faffing about having to scan and download menus through QR codes and/or ordering and paying through an app is a joke.

The few places I've experienced this the waiters spend more time running around explaining to people what they have to do than if they had just had a physical menu at the tables and took orders on their own POS tablets / smartphones. 

Nah these systems in long before covid.

Which they were - But the onset of Covid made them a lot more widespread.

Now they encourage you to use the screens to order and pay with card and then then you get a raffle umber and it seems to take ages for your food to come as yes the payment might be quicker but the lads making the burgers cant make tgem quick enough to keep up so there is always a  backlog.

I go to the drive through instead now 

It's a much better system for McDonald's IMO. McDonald's used to be a disaster when you tried to order a plain burger or a burger without certain things on it when you ordered at the counter. Now, you can select exactly what you want on it. Great system.

The menu things are handy at times you know what's on the full drinks menu for example and you also don't have to wait on a waiter. But then if you are ordering for multiple people at a time then your spending a lot of your time on the phone. 

The McDonald's waiting around for 10 minutes after ordering for a happy meal trying not to get in the way can also be annoying but then the ability to custom the burger to your choosing and that you don't have to deal with a queue generally are positives. 

that was probably an outlier as back then it commonplace in america for you to have to sign receipts after swiping your card. i couldn't get over the fact when i went to the states 5 years ago they didn't have chip and pin or contactless. i believe that has changed or is about to change.

agree with posters though re scanning QR codes for menus. a right pain in the hole it is. came across one place a few months back that had paper menus behind the till for customers who were unable to scan the QR codes.

to add i hate queueing, no time for it. went into a mcdonalds in scotland recently where you could pre-order your meal on an app and it'd be ready when you arrived. 

You also don't get fat shamed ordering off a screen 

Was over there recently. Still have to sign paper receipts and majoritynof the time tapping didnt work. Had to use chip and pin.

I’m on my holidays. I tried to watch the Pats game on RTE news app but got a message saying “not available to watch in your location”. I switched off the wifi on my phone and it worked on 4G. Turned the wifi back on and it still worked. 

The reason for that is so the bartender or server can get a tip. 

They are using GEO location.

Your wifi will have a local IP in whatever place your in but your 4G will be connecting from an IP in Ireland.

What does tell you?

https://whatismyipaddress.com/" rel="nofollow - https://whatismyipaddress.com/

??? I hid the address of IPV4 

Google what's my IP address and see what it says.

The google and what's my ip both match 

 

So I’ve an iPad Air 4 (although this also happened on my old one)and anytime Im watching anything, be it the IPTV, YouTube or any of the players, the volume level lowers by itself. Even when I manually increase it, it just drops back down again almost instantly. Ive toyed with all the sound settings of which there are or seems to be only one or two that should affect it. Its obviously a software issue be it intentional or a glitch. 

GF had the same problem, it was the volume button that was stuck in she had to send it off for repair.

Ah, something different so. Yeah hers kept going fully down like the button was being held down. Id say you're right with it being some sort of software issue then.

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Any updates pending?