Restaurant customers enjoy a hand-drawn QR code on a blackboard

Restaurant customers enjoy a hand-drawn QR code on a blackboard

2024-07-16

A restaurant in Changhua is making customers smile with an artistic trick: chalkboard QR codes! Visitors to the fast-food joint can order their dishes on a special app, and scan a hand-drawn code on a blackboard to find the link. Perhaps most fun of all, the QR code artist is none other than the owner of the restaurant herself. Customers joke that her artistic talent is wasted on the hospitality industry.

A detailed image comes to life on the blackboard like a jigsaw. Step back and you see it’s a QR code. But does it work?

Open your camera, snap the code, and instantly the screen flashes up with an ordering app for a fast-food restaurant.

Member of public
I think it’s the first time I’ve seen this, because usually it’s just printed on paper on a poster.

Member of public
A genius hidden in obscurity! It’s very impressive.

Customers are amazed at the hand-drawn code being so perfect, and drawn by one of the workers.

Armed just with a piece of white chalk, she scribbles back and forth. Completing one usable QR code takes at least two hours, and there’s no room for error.

Ms. Wu
Restaurant worker
The app has a unique code. If it’s the tiniest bit off, for example, the grid is a tiny bit wonky, you won’t be able to scan it to the correct location. It’s not hard to draw, actually, it just takes a little patience.

Ms. Wu doesn’t confine herself to QR codes. On holidays she also draws promotional images, like this bouquet of flowers for Mother’s Day, and this dragon boat for Dragon Boat Festival. With such a hidden talent, Ms. Wu has attracted many customers who say she’s wasted behind a kitchen counter.

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高手在民間! 速食店員"純手繪"點餐QR Code

2024-07-16

彰化一間速食餐廳，店外擺放了一塊黑板，上頭是用粉筆手工繪製的QR Code，有民眾好奇掃描，結果真的可以跳出"點餐APP"，原來這圖案，是店員兩周前突發奇想，為了鼓勵客人線上點餐，親手繪製而成，想不到竟然和紙本印製效果一樣，讓顧客嘖嘖稱奇。

黑板上，密密麻麻的圖案，就像拼圖碎片，後退一步看，原來是個QR Code，但真的能用嗎?

開啟手機鏡頭，對準QR Code，下一秒，螢幕真的跳出速食店點餐軟體。

[[民眾]]
“我算第一次看到，因為一般都是用紙本的方式，(呈現)在海報上面”

[[民眾]]
“高手在民間的感覺，蠻厲害的”

想不到這純手繪條碼，居然畫的如此精準，而創作者竟然就是店員。

就靠這一根白色粉筆，左圖圖、右畫畫，想要完成可以掃描的QR Code，得耗時至少兩小時，一格都不能錯。

[[創作者巫小姐]]
“這個程式有獨特的編碼，如果差一點點，比如說一點點空格跑出去的話，就沒有辦法掃到正確的途徑，其實畫起來不會很困難，只是要一點耐心”

其實不只是QR碼，也會配合節日，畫出宣傳看板，像是母親節花圈、端午節還有龍舟，這一手好功夫，也讓不少人笑稱是被餐飲業耽誤的"天才畫家"。

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