Stephen Colbert, on The Late Show last Thursday, presenting items from the show for auction:
“QR codes. You know their slogan: ‘The thing that makes your dad say, “Can I please just get a real menu?”’”Aw man, your writers can do better than that. Wikipedia reports that “in 2022, 89 million people in the United States scanned a QR code.” This dad (of “kids” in their thirties) eats QR codes for breakfast. They taste awful, but I like to prove that I can do it.
All kidding aside, a printed menu provides a better reading and ordering experience. Zooming out, so to speak, lets you see more offerings at the same time, move back and forth between menu sections more easily, and, perhaps, make a better choice about what to order.[That QR code goes, of course, to here.]
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Let me put in a word for folks like me: No cellular telephone until a few years ago, when a salesperson from the phone company called to sell me a phone and a plan.
Thinking, "What if I go on road trips in my retirement?" I paid. The cell phone came in a new plastic wrapping, straight from the warehouse.
Now I have a traditional flip phone that doesn't do QR codes.... My MacBook is smart enough for my web needs.
Whatever works! I just resent SC’s writers’ trading on the assumption that people of a certain age can’t manage QR codes.
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