Products · Pattern or everyday thing
Restaurant menus
Raised as a usability problem by 20 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2011–2026), in 17 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
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Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 20 complaints
- Scanning a QR code redirects to an app store instead of showing the menu2026-04-06
- Menu PDF linked from QR code is unreadable on a phone screen2025-11-08
- People get lost zooming and scrolling to find and compare menu options2025-02-27
- Menu sections are hard to jump between because links hide when scrolling2024-11-02
- Menus are PDFs requiring panning left and right on a tiny screen2024-02-18
- Pink text on pink background is hard to read from a distance2024-01-29
- Menus cram too much on one page or spread across too many pages2024-01-20
- Hard to get an overview of menu items on a small phone screen2023-11-15
- QR code menus take long to get working and are hard to read on small phone screens2023-09-07
- Long lists show only 3 or 4 items, forcing repeated scrolling to compare dishes2023-05-25
- Tiny phone screen and slow, unresponsive pages make ordering hard2022-12-06
- Menus omit options and details, forcing diners to ask staff for answers2022-10-17
- Restaurant menus behind QR codes are inconvenient and unreadable PDFs for non-smartphone users2022-04-11
- Menu web pages use accordion UI requiring lots of clicking in and out2021-06-29
- PDF menus are desktop-sized, forcing pinch and scroll, and downloads are hard to find and delete2021-06-29
- Menus published only as PDFs are hostile to use on mobile devices2020-03-12
- Clicking Lunch Menu shows no change for 30 seconds, looks broken2020-03-12
- Menus as PDFs are hard to view on mobile devices2020-03-12
- Online menu built for iPad viewport, not responsive, so it displays poorly on browsers2019-02-04
- PDF menus slow browsing and often fail or crash on mobile devices2011-08-10