Strategy question

Design a contactless dining experience for pubs like social.

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What this question tests

Tests product design under a specific venue context, balancing convenience with the social atmosphere pubs are known for.

Note the tension: pubs are social, group-order environments unlike quick-service restaurants, so contactless must preserve the communal feel.
Segment on groups splitting rounds and tabs versus solo diners.
Identify the pain point: waiting to flag a server for each round, and splitting the bill at the end.
Design a table QR code for menu and ordering, a shared running tab visible to the whole table, and split-by-item or split-evenly at checkout.
Define success as average order-to-serve time, tab close-out time, and repeat usage of QR ordering by the same table.

Explicitly protects the group-ordering dynamic, shared tab and round-based ordering, instead of copying a solo fast-food QR flow.
Addresses payment splitting directly, since that is the actual friction point in pub settings.
Grounds the design in what makes pubs distinct from typical contactless dining contexts.

Copying a generic QR-menu flow without addressing group tabs or splitting, the specific pub context.
Ignoring server tip and interaction expectations that come with pub culture.

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