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I wish more restaurants used an NFC tag encoded with an image / svg, instead of downloading it over the web. This was I wouldn’t have the initial issue of haphazardly attempting to scan the QR code, and no delays having to wait for spotty LTE to resolve itself. Not sure about the logistics here as far as how much data NFC tags hold.

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If you encode an image of the menu into a QR code/NFC tag, you do not have the main advantage of a QR code -- being able to update the menu centrally without reprinting it. At that point you might as well stick a menu on the table rather than a QR image/NFC.

While less than ideal, you could always re-encode the tags right?

1 Kb is the limit, so a text it is.

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