Post #1391136
2026-04-19 13:09 UTC
Replies (35)
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@hypostase@bsd.network 2026-04-19 13:28
@NudelnAlDente At this point I'd almost be for "Okay, so where can you recommend?" and if that wasn't an option just get a glass of water.
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@interpipes@thx.gg 2026-04-19 13:41
@NudelnAlDente it's certainly one choice to outsource your online presence to these vultures but surrendering your on premise menu to them is a new level of stupid to me
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@raganwald@social.bau-ha.us 2026-04-19 13:41
@NudelnAlDente There was a nice small Korean fried chicken joint in my town. It had menus. It was close to the library, and I regularly lunched there. Last time I was there, the menus were gone, replaced by a QR code at the table. You get the menu *and* place your order with your device. The joint is still there, but I'm not. No specific reason or rant, I guess it just felt like a harbinger of future enshittification. I should drive by and see if it has been replaced by a vending machine.
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@BeckaOhNoes@mas.to 2026-04-19 13:45
@NudelnAlDente The second some place tells me to check their menu on... Fucking... Instagram? I walk out. Lmao. What the hell.
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@rootschange@federate.social 2026-04-19 13:49
@NudelnAlDente ditto to non-profits and community organizations. Instagram is not accessible and you’re leaving a huge portion of your community out. Those off Instagram might actually be better evangelists for you! But they can’t find you.
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@kimlockhartga@beige.party 2026-04-19 13:56
@NudelnAlDente exactly! JFC. No physical menu? Are they that obtuse?
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@sldrant@mastodon.social 2026-04-19 13:59
@NudelnAlDente @neil should really ask them to describe the entire menu, seeing as they can't actually provide you with a physical one... FFS
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@epicdemiologist@wandering.shop 2026-04-19 14:06
@NudelnAlDente This is so insane. Here locally we have a restaurant that requires you to give them your phone number to be put on a list for a table; and a gas station that requires their app to activate the gas pumps.
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@webidebi@mastodon.social 2026-04-19 14:15
@NudelnAlDente They wouldn't have even got a beer out of me. B-bye...
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@Su_G@aus.social 2026-04-19 14:18
@NudelnAlDente Too groovy for their own good. 😐
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@sothawo@social.tchncs.de 2026-04-19 14:20
@NudelnAlDente I wouldn’t even have bothered to order a beer.
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@bytebro@mastodonapp.uk 2026-04-19 14:20
@NudelnAlDente Good grief. I'd certainly never go back!
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@kinsey@cyberpunk.gay 2026-04-19 14:26
@NudelnAlDente@mstdn.social jfc. if they're not gonna have a physical menu they can at least have a website???
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@vulgalour@birdbutt.com 2026-04-19 14:28
@NudelnAlDente That's a wild business model. I wonder what the logic is behind that decision. You're supposed to remove any sort of friction between the customer and their money and this is very much the opposite of that. I'm assuming they didn't even have a chalkboard of special cocktails at the bar to tempt customers with.
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@realcainmosni@mastodon.me.uk 2026-04-19 14:34
@NudelnAlDente I would have been more direct, still: "Thanks, but I'll go somewhere else." Thing is, it probably *doesn't* hurt their trade to any appreciable degree. The younger generations as a whole seem to have been normalised to everything needing an online account and 24/7 access to their life. If that's the target demographic, or the demographic that most sustains their business, the bar is not going to care one iota about outliers. THAT is the root of the problem.
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@MissGayle@urbanists.social 2026-04-19 14:36
@NudelnAlDente We walk out of places that don't have real menus.
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@CatDragon@mastodon.world 2026-04-19 14:40
@NudelnAlDente yeah let me add in restaurants and businesses that use Facebook as their web site. No, I am not going to go eat at your restaurant without seeing your menu first and also no fucking way in this world unless you were holding a gun to my dog’s head will I be going on Facebook for anything.
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@progo@boop.city 2026-04-19 14:53
@NudelnAlDente this is the equivalent of a cocktail bar for everyone, speaking only Spanish in an English speaking neighborhood. Nope. Not for me. Bye.
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@lenotaire@mastodon.social 2026-04-19 14:53
@NudelnAlDente I once went to a buffet restaurant where the dishes you wanted needed to be sent to a Whatsapp account. Did I not have (and still not) such an account, back then I did not even had a Whatsapp-capable phone. No other option than to leave unserved...
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@LanceJZ@mastodon.social 2026-04-19 15:00
@NudelnAlDente OMG That is so stupid.
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@hatter@metasocial.com 2026-04-19 15:00
@NudelnAlDente They were lucky to get the price of a small beer out of you. While I'd have asked the bartender for recommendations, or ordered something relatively well known, I'd also have shared some thought with them to pass on to their manager.
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@earwigplanet@mastodon.social 2026-04-19 15:04
@NudelnAlDente I don't get hired if I don't have an Instagram, so I keep it around with all my handful of followers who can't see my posts anymore just because venues have this idea that you HAVE to be there.
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@aburka@hachyderm.io 2026-04-19 15:06
@NudelnAlDente dumbest trend ever, why would you want everyone in your bar to be looking down at their phones
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@ZoidbergForPresident@kolektiva.social 2026-04-19 15:09
@NudelnAlDente No physical menu means they do not want money, period. Same thing if your menu is only in english and your restaurant is in friggin Brussels! ffs...
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@courtcan@mastodon.social 2026-04-19 15:20
@NudelnAlDente That would be enough to make me turn around and walk out -- after telling them exactly why I'm doing so.
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@vgoller@nrw.social 2026-04-19 15:22
@NudelnAlDente don’t worry. They either go bust or are a good place NOT to be, a honeypot for influencer and wannabe insta-fames. You don’t want to hang out with these anyway
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@jranft@mastodon.social 2026-04-19 15:25
@NudelnAlDente Yes. So stupid. They should just show you a screenshot of the menu on their phone at least.
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@vrtxd@piipitin.fi 2026-04-19 15:27
@NudelnAlDente – Oh okay, but the account is free and very easy to create! – Cool, in that case please create a throwaway account so I can throw money at you.
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@HeckinChonker@mastodon.social 2026-04-19 15:28
@NudelnAlDente There was an ice cream place that sold ice cream shakes near me. The menu was animated, and would only show the shake ingredients for a couple seconds before cycling. The server explained that I could just ask and she could tell me what was in each, and I really tried but my brain just could not process what the options were.
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@galacticstone@mastodon.social 2026-04-19 15:32
@NudelnAlDente I lost count of the number of times I have refused to use a business because they have a Facebook, Instagram, or X/Twitter presence.
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@progo@boop.city 2026-04-19 16:18
@NudelnAlDente the proper response to this nonsense is a decisive and not quiet "I cannot order from your menu that won't stay still on the TV." or "I do not use Instagram." and walk out without looking back.
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@jschauma@mstdn.social 2026-04-19 16:18
@NudelnAlDente@mstdn.social New coffee place opened up around the corner. Went in there, nobody pays me any attention, no obvious line to order, no cash register. I’m told I can scan a QR code to download an app to place an order. Walked across the street to next place instead.
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@Florapis@toot.wales 2026-04-19 16:20
@NudelnAlDente@mstdn.social we currently want to buy several fruit trees. Our nearest supplier is only on facebook🤷♀️
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@Bwaz@mastodon.online 2026-04-19 16:41
@NudelnAlDente@mstdn.social Ditto. And also, for me, if your only store is on Amazon, I'll be going to one of your competitors. Even if more expensive.
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@NicolasConstant@cosocial.ca 2026-04-19 16:50
@NudelnAlDente@mstdn.social I've experienced the same lately... Fancy Cocktail bar also, with some "speakeasy gamification" to enter. At some point we had to find a "hint" on their Instagram and went into the same issue than you. The issue is... youngsters do consider not having an Instagram account as completely absurd. It's totally possible that this way of forcing you to check their IG helps the business.