How To Use NFC Restaurant Menu Tag

At your favorite restaurants, you can touch your phone to an NFC tagged menu and voila! — you have the entire menu on your phone, along with nutritional information and mouth-watering descriptions of the ingredients in your favorite dishes. You could also pay for items without entering credit card details if the reader was linked to a payment system such as Apple Pay or Google Pay.

Taking advantage of the flexibility of near-field communication requires having the hardware and software to read it. For most of us, that’s our smartphone or smartwatch and the apps we install on it. Finding, downloading and setting up a new app can be, at least, a pain, and, at most, keep you from using the technology at all. But in 2020, Apple released a new feature in its iOS operating system called App Clips. Scanning a special NFC code allows you to conduct a transaction, such as renting an electric scooter or paying for gas, for example, without having to download and install a specialized app to do it. [source: Apple].

When it comes to the potential uses of NFC tags, there are no limits. But what exactly gives an NFC tag its enchanting powers?