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Scan Me!

Title (Dublin Core)

Scan Me!

Description (Dublin Core)

Instead of using reusable menus, to limit what people are touching, Loretta created scannable and paper menus for guests to use. Guests can scan the code on the paper provided, and a link pops up to bring people to the restaurants menu. This is an important part of the pandemic, because people are encouraged not to touch everything they see, so by limiting what people are touching, Loretta has limited the spread of potential germs. When future historians look back on restaurants during the pandemic, they will see how a lot of establishments created scannable menus for their guests. Some people have a difficult time with the snanable menus, which is why the paper menu is offered. People are typically eager to learn how to use the scan menus though, sometimes out of frustration for it not working, but also because of the growing popularity of scanning items with phones.

Date (Dublin Core)

December 6, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Emily Yurkus

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Emily Yurkus

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST241

Partner (Dublin Core)

Suffolk University in Boston

Type (Dublin Core)

photograph

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Public Space
English Business & Industry
English Food & Drink

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

#CovidMiniCollection
Loretta
Newburyport
restaurant during pandemic
scan me
menu
restaurant

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

#CovidMiniCollection
Loretta
Newburyport
restaurant during pandemic
#ScanMe!

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

12/16/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

1/29/21

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This item was submitted on December 16, 2020 by Emily Yurkus using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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