Have you noticed that many companies force you to put in a location and start an order before you can see the menu? This drives me crazy. I also don't like having to scan a QR code to see a menu. I like my paper copies!

ShopperGirly visiting the trendy restaurants

@ShopperGirly wrote:

Have you noticed that many companies force you to put in a location and start an order before you can see the menu? This drives me crazy. I also don't like having to scan a QR code to see a menu. I like my paper copies!

I prefer paper menus too...b-u-t...check that table over there. See that kid picking her nose and pointing all over the menu? Yeah. People are gross. Now don't get me started on customers AND employees who exit the restroom without washing their hands.

Ok, I'm done.

Enjoy your dinner! LOL

This is how I research whether I can get the meal I'm required to purchase before I sign up for the shop. I'll put in the zip code, or pick the specific restaurant I'm going to visit. And I'll fill up a cart with the required purchases, and get the total, then add the tax and tip with my calculator. I have found that I'd rather empty the cart after I take a screen shot, because then I'll have some prices for reference, and I won't get an email 2 hours later telling me that I forgot something in my cart, even when I never gave them my email address (thanks Google).

I can't read the menu on my phone anyway, it's too small (and the readers I keep in my car aren't clean more often than not). Trying to read too much on my phone gives me a headache, it's not happening.

Sometimes, I'll use the online ordering as a last resort to ballpark the amounts. If the menu or PDF is not available online. Sometimes, the online ordering amounts are marked up some.

I just like reading menus, even from restaurants I'll likely never visit.

So yeah, having to jump through online ordering hoops just to see the goods is frustrating.

A lot of restaurants are strictly using online order pages to present their "menu", an instant red flag for me.

Physical menus, and their digital representations, are the best way for a restaurant to effectively present an entire vibe, INMSHO, and that is how I determine if it's a place I want to patronize.

Just don't get me started on all the freaking typos...

I dont mind at all looking at the online order menu. Just make sure it is directly from the restaurant site and not from a delivery site so the prices will not be jacked up. I also think it is the most up to date menu price as many times the restaurant itself has not kept up with the constantly changing prices these days on their website menu. And forget just googling menus. After too many times of getting pop up restaurant menus when I search, thinking these are pretty decent prices and then hidden somewhere find the date of the posting is 5 years ago I just go directly to the online menu of the restaurant site.
A little research saves me from taking many a shop where i will be out of pocket even ordering the cheapo items.

Look up UA Eats reviews on YouTube... You can review menus without the calories.

I've seen menu prices going up monthly this year! So make sure to check the date of any online prices and don't be surprised if the prices are higher when you actually go there.

Yes, I have noticed that. What I do is pretend to place an order online; then you can see the prices.

I've noticed delivery prices are different than in store prices on any of the delivery service websites. Make sure you're on a "corporate" delivery ordering website.

@paniconmon wrote:

ShopperGirly visiting the trendy restaurants

LOL even the local Arby's by me makes you start an order before showing prices.

@wrosie wrote:

I've seen menu prices going up monthly this year! So make sure to check the date of any online prices and don't be surprised if the prices are higher when you actually go there.

Of course!!!

Did anyone think, for example, that the $20/hr fast food worker wage in Cali wasn't going to have repurcussions?

Socialism has consequences.

Well Maverick, from an economic point of view (not a political point of view) I am wondering how workers in states where they earn $7.25 an hour or even less for food service jobs are able to afford even your little bit lower prices at fast food joints. Or how they can buy anything even on amazon where prices are the same across the country. .

@maverick1 wrote:

@wrosie wrote:

I've seen menu prices going up monthly this year! So make sure to check the date of any online prices and don't be surprised if the prices are higher when you actually go there.

Of course!!!

Did anyone think, for example, that the $20/hr fast food worker wage in Cali wasn't going to have repurcussions?

Socialism has consequences.

Well sandyf, from an economic point of view (not a political point of view), minimum wage positions are for those who DO NOT expect a career, just a job for spending money. These are predominately high school students, college students, and senior citizens, retirees.

Low skill, minimum wage jobs are not meant to be a career. They should be treated like paid internships. Learn a skill you think is useful to propel you into a job that will allow you to self sustain. Stop raising the minimum wage in attempt to make up for a growing population of low skill, unmotivated working class.

Every time you hike up minimum wage you damage the economy for everyone else. Small businesses go extinct because their margins are SO small. Prices of cheap goods and services are forced to increase, or be out-priced by conglomerates like Walmart who can undercut you until you're out of the picture.

You can hem and haw about corporate greed all you want, but your minimum wage hikes drive revenue straight from small businesses to those very corporate entities you moan about.

I know it's easier to cry about how nobody should be poor or live in squalor, but your minimum wage hikes have only resulted in more and more people being unable to afford living above the poverty line in this country.

Barking out, "would you like fries with that?" is not a career.

@sandyf wrote:

Well Maverick, from an economic point of view (not a political point of view) I am wondering how workers in states where they earn $7.25 an hour or even less for food service jobs are able to afford even your little bit lower prices at fast food joints. Or how they can buy anything even on amazon where prices are the same across the country. .

@maverick1 wrote:

@wrosie wrote:

I've seen menu prices going up monthly this year! So make sure to check the date of any online prices and don't be surprised if the prices are higher when you actually go there.

Of course!!!

Did anyone think, for example, that the $20/hr fast food worker wage in Cali wasn't going to have repurcussions?

Socialism has consequences.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/25/2025 11:35PM by maverick1.

@nc wrote:

Yes, I have noticed that. What I do is pretend to place an order online; then you can see the prices.

Me, too. I start an online order, but don't check out.

@maverick1 wrote:

Well sandyf, from an economic point of view (not a political point of view), minimum wage positions are for those who DO NOT expect a career, just a job for spending money. These are predominately high school students, college students, and senior citizens, retirees.

Low skill, minimum wage jobs are not meant to be a career. They should be treated like paid internships. Learn a skill you think is useful to propel you into a job that will allow you to self sustain. Stop raising the minimum wage in attempt to make up for a growing population of low skill, unmotivated working class.

Every time you hike up minimum wage you damage the economy for everyone else. Small businesses go extinct because their margins are SO small. Prices of cheap goods and services are forced to increase, or be out-priced by conglomerates like Walmart who can undercut you until you're out of the picture.

You can hem and haw about corporate greed all you want, but your minimum wage hikes drive revenue straight from small businesses to those very corporate entities you moan about.

I know it's easier to cry about how nobody should be poor or live in squalor, but your minimum wage hikes have only resulted in more and more people being unable to afford living above the poverty line in this country.

Barking out, "would you like fries with that?" is not a career.

@sandyf wrote:

Well Maverick, from an economic point of view (not a political point of view) I am wondering how workers in states where they earn $7.25 an hour or even less for food service jobs are able to afford even your little bit lower prices at fast food joints. Or how they can buy anything even on amazon where prices are the same across the country. .

@maverick1 wrote:

@wrosie wrote:

I've seen menu prices going up monthly this year! So make sure to check the date of any online prices and don't be surprised if the prices are higher when you actually go there.

Of course!!!

Did anyone think, for example, that the $20/hr fast food worker wage in Cali wasn't going to have repurcussions?

Socialism has consequences.

Lots of small businesses fail for other reasons, like poorly running a business, running it like a hobby with inconsistent hours, not offering what the community really needs, so on and so forth. Further, most states with a higher minimum wage have exemptions for small businesses.


Workers in those low wage states (I live in one) get EBT, health insurance subsidies, housing vouchers, etc, so having low wages actually creates more of the "socialism" consequences you seem to dislike. And let's be real - when people are working and still qualify for those benefits because they are only making $9 an hour, it is subsidizing large companies like Walmart who don't want to give their workers higher pay or enough hours to disqualify them from receiving those benefits.


From a % standpoint, my state that has a low minimum wage and is next to a state with a higher minimum wage has more people in poverty than the state with a higher minimum wage. So no, a higher minimum wage doesn't create more poverty. You can also look at several countries in Europe who have higher minimum wages and maintain a decent quality of life.

Anyway, here's a few links that back up my points - you can compare the min wage and the states with the lower wages, to their rates of poverty.

[en.wikipedia.org]

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