Five Reasons Why QR Code Menus Aren’t Going Away

4 Min Read By Annabel Maw

Restaurant customers do everything from their phones. They may have discovered you from an Eater article, booked their reservation through OpenTable, or located you via Google Maps, and they will surely review their experience on Yelp — whether positive or negative — when their meal is complete. 

It’s not shocking that many restaurants are keeping with the COVID-bred tradition of QR code menus long after the CDC’s more conservative guidelines have softened. It’s been reported that 35 percent of 18- to 25 year-olds keep their phones by their side during every meal. Regardless of whether this is proper dinnertime etiquette, the truth is that most people can pull out their smartphone to read through your menu just as easily as perusing a physical menu.

Here are five reasons why you should stick with QR code menus instead of pulling those plastic menus out of storage.

1. QR Code Menus Are More SanitaryThough COVID fears have certainly waned since the pandemic’s start, there…