Dining Goes Digital for Thailand’s Street Food Vendors

Dining Goes Digital for Thailand’s Street Food Vendors
An advertisement board displaying a QR code is seen as a vendor waits for customers at a market in Bangkok, Thailand, November 22, 2017. Reuters/Athit Perawongmetha
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BANGKOK—Bangkok’s famous street-food vendors have joined the digital revolution, embracing payment via Quick Response (QR) barcodes that can be read using smartphones.

Thailand is famous for its traditional street stalls that offer everything from stir-fried noodles to clothes and for many Thais eating out at a pavement stall is part of their daily routine.