Darron Cardosa is a food service professional with over 30 years of restaurant experience. He has written more than 1,500 articles and blog posts about the hospitality industry, including for Food & ...

Their fifteen minutes of pandemic fame are up. Remember 2020, when we were thrilled to be dining outdoors after a three-month lockdown? Capturing a QR code and seeing a restaurant menu pop up on your ...

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 ...

Perhaps no symbol is as emblematic of dining out in the modern era as the QR code. It graces our tables at restaurants, beckoning us to pull out our phones and scan. QR is short for "quick response," ...

Up until COVID-19, the QR code, that square offspring of the Universal Product Code, was a mostly marginal technology as far as the consumer marketplace was concerned. During the pandemic, however, ...

The QR code menu is being kicked to the curb in many restaurants throughout the U.S., leaving it in the past where it belongs. Reading time 2 minutes The QR code menu which restaurateurs began using ...

As someone whose job requires scrolling on social media and replying to Slacks for hours on end, any chance to unplug is welcome. It’s why I stick to reading physical books, handwriting journals and ...

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’m still not ...

It’s hard to believe that something nefarious can lie within a QR code, but it can. QR codes have become a convenience of modern life. Just scan the black and white mosaic with your phone’s camera and ...

Kristen Hawley writes about the restaurant business from San Francisco. She's the founder of Expedite, a weekly restaurant technology newsletter highlighting news and big ideas about the future of the ...