Fast food in particular is such a weird concept to need an app. But Chick-fil-a's app is so much better than all the others they give the concept hope. Combined with their great service, the app is legitimately faster than a Drive Thru. Can't say the same of McDonalds.
I've stopped eating at places that require QR codes. The only advantage is when you can select the items in the app and pay for it all in that one place. It's quite useful for things like Dim Sum where you're getting lots of small things over a longer period of time.
musicnotes.com has a subscription at this point. Not a "traditional" publisher in that way, but it's a huge player for PVG (piano, vocal, guitar) scores that isn't Hal Leonard.
I'm not going to endure an hour's commute and all the expense involved with that to just sit in another box where communication will just marginally improve.
Exactly. I mixed soda syrups for my small business and had to learn what actually goes into it all. Soda is generally 80% soda water, and the syrup is usually only 50 °Bx (roughly 50% sugar by mass). Of course with sweetners the syrup is almost entirely water since you need a tiny amount of the sweetner to get the same level of sweetness. In an average soda drink, the flavor and dye is about 0.6% by volume of the syrup (again, more water since it's in solution), and the preservative is 0.2%. The amounts are so tiny you would have to consume a completely unreasonable amount to even get sick, let alone do lasting harm (except for the sugar, obviously).