Or realistic. In literally all the restaurants I’ve been to in the last years, the QR code is nothing more than a link to a PDF version of the menu. Everywhere.
There’s no way they’d risk their reputation by serving a different menu to people depending, say, on the OS. Also it’s probably 100% illegal where I live.
Ignore the legality of it for a second and just think what would happen when you have a dinner party that shows up where some people have different phones. The groups would immediately see the price differences.
Also, the QR menus I’ve seen don’t connect to the actual ordering process. Waitstaff come over to get the order, then they punch it into the POS device that tallies the bill. So maybe they could have dynamic pricing day to day, but not from customer to customer
I don't know where you live, but I would be very, very surprised if your country happened to have "mobile OS" enshrined in law as a forbidden avenue of price discrimination.
I don't know where you live but I would be very surprised if a restaurant had a high enough operational surplus to pay for any of this. Most resurants, even fancy ones are continuously a couple particular bad services away from bankruptcy.
This appears to be trying to suggest that low-margin businesses are somehow inherently immune to the idea of increasing their margins by any means necessary?
Come on, do you see absolutely no way a law preventing price discrimination could be formulated without referring to "mobile OS"? I know American laws are sometimes weirdly specific but still.
From a quick check on my government's website:
- prices must be displayed outside and inside the restaurant
- the prices can't be different depending on where they're displayed
- the displayed price must include taxes and service fees
That's enough to guarantee there's no possibly legal price discrimination. Not a single mention of "mobile OS".
It's a reference to the concept in US law of protected class - discrimination is entirely legal against certain kinds of people. It's only protected classes that it is illegal to discriminate against. Specifically the law prohibits discrimination based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, or disability. But if your restaurant wanted to charge people named Thomas or left-handed people $2 extra, that would be totally legal.
There’s no way they’d risk their reputation by serving a different menu to people depending, say, on the OS. Also it’s probably 100% illegal where I live.