So, I heard about this place, the “Lookout Kitchen”. Great name, right? Promises a view. Went up there the other day. View was okay, yeah, but getting food turned into a whole thing, mostly because of the menu. It wasn’t what I expected.
We sat down, ready to order, but no menus on the table. Standard these days, I guess. The server nods towards this little QR code sticker, almost hidden on the salt shaker. Okay, deep breath, pull out the phone. Scan the code. And wait. The signal was terrible up there, must be the ‘lookout’ part messing with it. Took ages for the page to even try loading.
The Menu Saga
Finally, something appears. But it’s one of those websites clearly designed on a big computer screen, not for a phone. Everything was tiny. I had to zoom way in, then pan around. Trying to read descriptions felt like navigating a map. And the background? Some artsy picture of the view, which just clashed with the text. Made my eyes hurt.
And get this: My phone was already complaining about low battery. So there I am, pinching and zooming, trying to decipher the menu before my phone dies completely. Talk about pressure! I just wanted to know if they had a decent burger.
- Spotty internet connection
- Menu not built for phones
- Hard-to-read text
- The looming dread of a dead phone
Why make it so complicated? Seriously. What’s wrong with having one or two actual, physical menus available? For people like me with dodgy phone batteries, or maybe older folks who aren’t glued to their phones, or just anyone who finds squinting at a tiny screen annoying. Seems like common sense.
It reminds me of this job I almost took once. All fancy tech on the surface, cloud this, microservice that. But when you looked closer, basic stuff was a mess. Like their internal communication tool was impossible to use, nobody could ever find anything. This menu felt the same – looked modern with the QR code, but totally failed on the usability front. The food itself? Pretty good, actually. But that whole menu struggle beforehand? It just soured the start. Makes you wonder if they actually tested it, you know? Like, did anyone try ordering using that menu on a phone with bad signal? I doubt it.
Ended up just asking the server what was popular. Defeated the whole point of the fancy QR code menu, didn’t it? Sometimes, simple is just better.
