QR Code Press

QR codes help sushi chef eliminate restaurant fish substitutions

07/18/201307/15/2013 Julie Campbell

California restaurants are experiencing a rise in “fish fraud” and a mobile friendly barcode is helping to stop that. There is a growing problem in California restaurants, as well as in other areas of the United States, and a sushi chef is hoping to use QR codes to put the practices around it to a dead stop. The issue has to do with the use of fish that is far less than fresh in sushi and other restaurants. The practice of gassing fish with carbon monoxide in order to maintain…

Edible QR codes shed light on California sushi

05/30/201305/31/2013 Stephen Vagus

QR codes used to show off fresh sushi For culinary connoisseurs, knowing what goes into making a meal is extremely important. This is as true for sushi as it is for other kinds of food. That is why restaurants are beginning to show more interest in making information concerning the food they offer more available to consumers. This is the case with Harney Sushi in San Diego, California, which has taken a somewhat innovative approach to information distribution. Patrons visiting the restaurant have begun seeing small, edible QR codes attached…

QR codes are being issued by rabbis in Tel Aviv to inform consumers

05/07/201305/06/2013 Sam Lambert

These barcodes are designed to help restaurant patrons to check a location’s kosher status. In Israel, Tel Aviv’s Chief Rabbinate has gone high tech by choosing to use QR codes to help restaurants to be able to show their kosher status, which can then be verified by consumers through the use of their smartphones. These barcodes will be printed on the kashrut certificates that the restaurants can display. This allows a consumer who is considering eating at a restaurant to be able to scan the QR codes that have been…

QR codes make their way onto sushi plates once more

03/27/201303/26/2013 Jesse Collins

The edible smartphone barcodes are now spreading awareness about sustainable fish in California. Though not the first time that a sushi restaurant has used edible QR codes to draw attention to its sustainable fish ingredients, a restaurant in California is adding itself to the list of firsts for this trend. The barcodes were used to provide diners with more information about the fish in an interesting way. The restaurant is called Harney Sushi, and it has made edible QR codes using water based ink printed on wafers of rice paper.…

QR codes from Taco Bell prove popular

02/25/201302/23/2013 Julie Campbell

The smartphone friendly barcodes managed to bring in approximately 225,000 scans from consumers. Taco Bell has just released the results of the QR code scans that it generated through its ESPN College Football campaign that it held for the Bowl Championship Series and revealed that the barcodes were scanned 225,000 times. This represents a tremendous success for the use of the barcodes on their product packages. The QR codes were found on a number of their 12 pack taco boxes, as well as other items such as their soda cups.…