BATON ROUGE, LA – As more restaurants replace traditional menus with QR codes, Dearman’s announced this week it has no intention of joining the trend, explaining that nearly everyone who walks through the door decided what they were ordering sometime during the Clinton administration.
Management said installing QR codes would only create unnecessary confusion among customers who have been confidently ordering the same hamburger, fries, and shake for decades without consulting a menu.
“We’re pretty sure half our customers could recite the menu from memory if you woke them up at 3 a.m.,” a restaurant spokesperson said. “The other half taught them.”
Employees reported that the only time customers actually pick up a menu is to point out what someone else should order.
Restaurant officials estimated that introducing QR codes would increase ordering times by nearly three minutes as longtime regulars awkwardly pretended to scan them before requesting exactly what they’ve ordered on every visit since high school.
Dearman’s said the paper menus will remain available indefinitely, mostly for first-time visitors who still think they have a decision to make.
