I went to a few places in 2020 that used QR code menus, and invariably the PDF they loaded was in text too small for my no-longer-20-year-old eyes to read. It was awful.

There are still a few customers who prefer QR codes over paper, such as 38-year-old photographer Phil Armstrong, who told the Journal it is a quicker way to order and pay when he’s in a rush.

You might as well extract it and back it up on a piece of paper, stored in a safe place. (As QR code or otherwise.) Then you can feed it into your next phone, or desktop app, or whatever.

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