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Eater's Digest

What Is the Future of Restaurant Menus?

Eater's Digest

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Food, Comedy, Arts, News Commentary, Improv

4.4902 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Wilson Tang of Nom Wah Tea Parlor talks about the future of the QR code menu system and how the cell phone has taken over ordering and paying at his restaurants in China. Amanda and Dan talk ferris wheel dining, delivery, and Whole Foods trend forecasting. Follow the hosts! Amanda Kludt (@kludt), Editor in Chief, Eater Daniel Geneen (@danielgeneen), Producer, Eater More to explore: Check out more great reporting from the Eater newsroom. Subscribe to Amanda’s weekly newsletter here. Follow Us: Eater.com Facebok.com/Eater YouTube.com/Eater @eater on Twitter and Instagram Get in Touch: [email protected] About Eater: Eater obsessively covers the world through the lens of food, telling stories via audio, television, digital video, and publications in 24 cities across the US and UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Once upon a time, Disney was a motion picture studio in a sea of Hollywood studios doing something nobody else was doing.

0:09.0

Disney's business is memory making. Disney's business is tradition.

0:15.0

But here's the thing about kingdoms.

0:17.0

They don't last forever.

0:18.0

To survive, Disney had to grow.

0:21.0

But has that tremendous growth eroded what made Disney, Disney.

0:24.3

And I don't know the world cares that this is a Disney movie anymore. I'm Joe

0:29.6

Italian. I'm hosting Land of the Giants, the Disney Telepa, from Bulcher on the Box Media Podcast Network.

0:35.0

Follow Land of the Giants wherever you listen to hear new episodes every Wednesday. Hi everyone and welcome to Eaters Digest to show about all things food and dining.

0:51.2

I'm Amanda Clute, editor and chief of Eater. My name is Daniel

0:54.1

Chineen. I am a producer at Eater. Amanda this week we are talking menus, we are

1:00.3

talking delivery, but to lead us off this is something that we're both kind of

1:06.3

obsessed with the evolution of the menu and how potentially the pandemic has blasted us into the future of the

1:20.1

restaurant menu through the cell phone.

1:23.8

And QR codes.

1:25.9

So, yeah.

1:27.1

Black and white, little square that you know and love

1:31.4

from your life in various places that is now on every restaurant

1:34.9

table when you sit down to eat. For those who don't know a QR code, the black and

1:38.8

little squares you said you take a picture or you point your camera towards it and it gives you a link to a unique

1:46.2

URL and that could be anything that could be to sign up for you know some kind of sketchy pharmaceutical,

1:54.7

but that could also be the link to restaurants online.

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