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I like these digital menus.
For large groups they're so much better than all coordinating when you're ready to order, ordering, and later working out how to split the bill.
They also let you order in your own time, no need to have someone hovering waiting for you to be ready, or not be there at all.
Though my experience is that they're mostly used at pubs and clubs, where they replace ordering at the counter, rather than table service.
The worst thing is that they always ask for a fucking tip. Shitty companies trying to import even shittier American bullshit.
None of that has anything to do with digital menus and everything to do with ordering online.
But that's what this is about. Cafes and restaurants replacing or supplementing paper menus where you order by telling a person what you want, with digital menus where you order by going through the online system.
Digital menus that supplement the paper menus and in-person servers are fine.
Digital menus that are the only option and are used to surge price are garbage