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 ...

QR codes are having a moment. Chances are, anyone visiting a restaurant during the height of the pandemic was either introduced or reintroduced to scanning those black squares first made popular in ...

QR codes may have only started popping up a few years ago as a pandemic-era contactless technology, but customers are already starting to age out of the original static experience that’s no different ...

Quick response codes, those boxy information-packed cousins to bar codes, are being used by Mesob Ethiopian Restaurant in Montclair, N.J., to engage mobile-technology-savvy guests and spur buzz.

I get it, printing prices are high, and as a business owner, you need to trim those costs wherever you can. Printing ...

Pandemic pressures continue to rise as the new Omicron variant spreads and restaurants must find a way to survive—once again. 55% of diners choose contactless payment as one of the top three factors ...

The QR code is back! Introduced in 1994 as a mobile tagging feature for manufacturers, the QR code has been used by marketers since the 2010s, but was hampered by the clunkiness of its use. In 2017, ...

It’s probably safe to say that we’re all guilty of posting a mid-meal Instagram, whether it’s sharing a snap of the appetizers on our stories or taking a grid-worthy selfie when the bathroom has ...

Jaya Saxena is a 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 forgetting.

Restaurants supply physical nourishment, but their ultimate contribution to life is spiritual. From the bonds forged with dining partners to the camaraderie shared with fellow patrons to the banter ...

The QR-code-payment startup Sunday raised more than $120 million in less than a year in 2021. This month, the Atlanta startup cut staff and pulled out of four of seven global markets. The spiraling of ...

During the halftime show of this year's Super Bowl, a floating QR code took a star turn in a prominently placed advertisement. That ad, which was run by cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase, ...