Venture outside and you’ll soon see them. Printed on posters and signs, pasted on pub walls and hotel lobbies, taped to picnic tables in beer gardens: QR codes. This story originally appeared on WIRED ...

A dining innovation that once looked like the future has worn out its welcome with many restaurateurs, customers and servers who say it takes the joy out of dining. By Amelia Nierenberg Heavenly ...

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 revived a ...

Jaya Saxena is a former correspondent at Eater, and the series editor of Best American Food and Travel Writing. She explores wide ranging topics like labor, identity, and food culture. I keep ...

Like many ambitious restaurants around town, the newly opened Pastore leaves no detail unturned: Customers are handed cold towels that chill in a fridge set precisely at 40 degrees, white tablecloths ...

Alexis Taylor, wearing a cloth mask, walked into Onesto, at 221 N. Broadway, for lunch with a friend in late January 2021. She was greeted by a hostess, also wearing a mask, who led her to a wooden ...

Carlos Fionda, 59, manager of Amazem Sao Thiago bar, shows of the physical menu at the Lapa neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in May 2023. - Copyright MAURO ...