Tech firm launches touchless menus to fight COVID-19 fear

Along with masked employees and vastly increased cleaning budgets, disposable menus have become commonplace as restaurants, reopening in the wake of the COVID-19 shutdown, aspire to reduce customers’ risk of exposure to the coronavirus. 

Printing large quantities of disposable menus, though, adds an expense to the bottom line at a time when restaurants are already struggling. A St. Petersburg tech firm, GoZone WiFi, has come up with a solution: digital menus that pop up on diners’ smartphones or mobile devices capable of scanning QR codes. 

CEO Todd Myers says the company’s Touchless Menu is available free of charge to businesses that already use GoZone WiFi, which uses Wi-Fi networks to deliver branded content and digital display advertising to end users, in addition to providing customer data and analytics. New clients can sign up for the service for $149 a year.