Ask HN: Why do Panera cafe tables have so many NFC Tags?
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I've seen them at Buffalo wild Wings and Earl of Sandwich as well. At least with Earl of Sandwich, it's to locate where you're sitting when the buzzer puck goes off.
The NFC tags would help the buzzing thing locate itself to a table. They also can be used to do what people do with QR codes with different support and the minus that people don’t know what to do with something they can’t see (there is no universal recognizable NFC logo.)
I bought 100 of those tags for about $15 so they are not too expensive.
I bought 100 of those tags for about $15 so they are not too expensive.
I thought of a few ways on why this might be, and where I got stuck is the little buzzing things that tell you when to pick up your order, but have zero idea on how that would correlate with the NFC tags. Anybody here know why?
I know it's a weird question, but surely someone else has noticed this before.