What Is a QR Code? How It Helps Restaurants
In a restaurant, a QR code is usually the bridge to a digital menu or an ordering link. Here is what it does, where it earns its keep and why it still scans even when the print wears.
What is a QR code?
The QR code on the table lets guests open your menu on their own phone. Restaurants mostly use QR codes for a digital menu, loyalty or an ordering link, and when set up properly they cut down on printing costs and the hassle of updating prices.
Below we sum up what a QR code is, what it does in a restaurant and the error correction that lets it scan even when the print is damaged.
A QR code (Quick Response Code) is a two-dimensional barcode designed so that information can be read quickly and easily. It can hold many kinds of data: a URL, text, product details, a table number, a Wi-Fi password and more. A smartphone camera reads it in seconds.
Where restaurants use QR codes
Restaurants generally use QR codes for the following:
What a QR menu does for your venue
Nobody needs to handle a shared menu booklet. Guests can browse the menu on their own phones.
When you add a new item or change a price, your menu printing cost drops to zero.
Orders placed through the QR code go straight to the POS system, which takes pressure off your waiters.
Free QR menu with Ritapos
Did you know you can have all of these features free with Ritapos? Yes, FREE. The QR menu is just one of the great features in the Ritapos free package. You can create your QR menu with Ritapos easily, without paying a license fee.
To explore our QR menu feature, visit the free QR menu page. For cafe and restaurant POS solutions, see Cafe POS and Restaurant POS.
Keep learning in the Academy
If you would like to see this step by step on screen, the related lessons in Ritapos Academy walk you through it.
For how the QR menu works in cafes and restaurants, see the free QR menu system page.
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