Scan For Table

@saroskar This is a nifty idea. I'd love to use it when visiting restaurants. However, if I knew that a popular restaurant used this system, I would cheat by taking a photo of the check-in QR code so that I could check in from home for future visits. That way I could wait around at home until I saw myself rising to the top of the queue. There are a few ways to stop cheaters like me: 1) Use geolocation to verify that the person checking in is in fact at the restaurant. This feature could be a setting that the restaurant could turn on or off. 2) Ask the restaurant to print out a new QR code every day/week/month. This solution is simple, but knowing restaurants I think they could struggle to remember to do this. 3) Have restaurants display the QR code on a tablet instead of a piece of paper. The digital display would let you update the QR code for the restaurant automatically. In the end, I suppose it's not the end of the world if people are able to check in from anywhere. Allowing customers to check in when they're not yet at the restaurant does give them lots of convenience. However, I also think it would dramatically increase the number of people who check in but never show up. The problem could be especially bad if a check in QR code got posted to a restaurant's Yelp page or Google listing.

@magnuson Thank you for your kind words! You are right, I plan to fix gaming of the system by checking in from your home by using geo location at the time of the checkin if it becomes a widespread issue. That's why I take the restaurant's street address in the sign up page :)

@saroskar @magnuson excellent recap on QR geo usage enforcing.

@ledaimnaig Thank you!

@musictriage That's on purpose. My product is now ready and I want to sign up few beta customers so that I can see how it fits their needs and processes before I start charging them. So I'm giving it away for free now. It'd cost few tens of dollars per month once it is commercially available.

@saroskar great thanks for clearing that up