[spirit557]

The only time I can midly bear a digital menu is if it's a single PDF file that I can pinch and zoom. Otherwise it just feels obnoxious to have to tap thru menus or only see my choices isolated in multiple pages based on a category or something. It feels awkward to sit down with people at a restaurant then we all are tapping away thru some stupid interface for a menu. If it's a single PDF file that one can pinch and zoom around thats the only time I dont get extremely annoyed by this whole thing.

[vendiddy]

Some of the PDFs I've seen weigh in at 50mb! I want a mobile friendly page that loads in a second.

[seattle_spring]

PDFs suck for foreign countries since you can't as easily translate the content on demand like a website in a browser.

Otherwise, totally agreed.

[mattl]

I’d imagine they’re also more frustrating because data while roaming is typically much slower.

[seattle_spring]

Always get a local SIM / eSIM from where you’re traveling. I doubt there’s any country in the world that costs more than $20 / 10GB (give or take). I’ve done this through several countries in Latin America, Singapore, Malaysia, and all over Europe and it’s worked like a charm every time.

You should never use your home carrier and roam when traveling internationally, unless you have something like Google Fi which explicitly states that your data allocations apply worldwide.

[mattl]

How well does that work with iMessage etc? It would be an additional line I guess so should work okay I guess.

[tom_]

It can also be fantastically expensive. Roaming data charges for my phone outside the EU: £5/MByte.

[mattl]

The data to download a menu is more than the meal. Is free wifi common in Europe? I remember it being quite hard to find a hotspot. Same in the UK.. UK had those “the cloud” things in places.

[modeless]

As long as the text in the PDF is real text that can be searched, rather than just a bunch of JPEGs in a PDF wrapper.