Depending on which part of the world you are in. It is increasingly impossible to do it. Post COVID, Cash is no longer accepted in many stores or restaurants. Smaller shops that used to avoid VISA and Master now accept them as well, at the expense of slight increase in menu price.

Landlord would rather leave shops empty than rent it at lower price. In order to combat rental restaurants cut cost by having QR Code ordering system.

The uses of QR Code, whether it is for payment or information makes Smartphone mandatory in those places.

Spending Money online with VISA or master now requires Mobile App log in for Authentication. Government Digital Log in System now also default to Apps.

I may be missing a few things, and there will be many more things to come that moves to Mobile Apps only direction.

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m01 a day ago | parent [-]

Surely you can still pay with plastic cards, at least if the venue advertises accepting the big card issuers?

The latest neobank might require an app, but I'd be surprised if you couldn't find any bank in your country that allows you to spend money without using mobile apps.

Ask if you can order/pay without using the QR code. I'd be surprised if venues didn't have a paper menu as backup.

	▲	Telaneo a day ago \| parent [-]
		> Ask if you can order/pay without using the QR code. I'd be surprised if venues didn't have a paper menu as backup. For newer restaurants, I really wouldn't bet on this being a thing. Or if they do, it's the ones they had before they updated their menus to QR codes, and thus might not be accurate any more. It's like being blind and asking for the braille menu. Sure, they should have one, but don't bet on them having one. And even if you know what you want and can pay in cash, even if they're legally bound to take your money at that point, you're working against the current and on some level being a (principled) ass to the staff serving you, who probably had no say in the system they're now having to deal with. It wouldn't even surprise me if some of these places have gone no-cash to the point of not having any place to put your cash after you've paid. The actual solution is probably 'go somewhere else', but we all how that might go.