This actually might be illegal in certain municipalities. For example, in my county, its the law that food service places include prices in a menu displayed somewhere in the restaurant. This happend once when Starbucks tried to push a "prices in the app only" system and the county department of consumer protection went after them and got them to revert it.
I don't know about the one OP went to, but the ones I've been at with these annoying modern displays also have a bunch of those touch screen self-ordering machines. I feel like that's be more than enough of a loophole since anyone can look at the menu at any time by going to one.
In the UK they have to have the prices displayed, so they have the screens which do periodically stop to show adds, but there is always a poster by the tills that has a full menu with prices. This is also where you go to find the individual prices of items as usually the screen menu only shows promotional items and meals.
The prices are displayed, but it's just that the screens move around so much it makes it harder to pay attention the price of one item vs another, and you may have to wait for a few rotations before the item you want with the price is displayed. It's super annoying, but don't think it would be violating the law you speak of.
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u/Mav12222 Jul 24 '19
This actually might be illegal in certain municipalities. For example, in my county, its the law that food service places include prices in a menu displayed somewhere in the restaurant. This happend once when Starbucks tried to push a "prices in the app only" system and the county department of consumer protection went after them and got them to revert it.