Overview

• Elon Musk wrote on X, “I hate QR codes. Such an eyesore,” replying to Swedish journalist Peter Imanuelsen’s refusal to use a restaurant QR menu.
• The exchange drew wide engagement on X, with users split between agreement and defenses of QR codes’ practicality.
• Restaurants embraced QR menus during COVID-19 for touch-free access, lower printing costs, easy updates, and customer data collection.
• Critics cite inconvenience, phone reliance, visual intrusion, and a less personal dining experience, while supporters note benefits like readability in low light.
• Users floated alternatives in replies, including camera-detectable invisible markers and voice-driven ordering concepts such as a ‘Grok Voice Menu.’