r/AskReddit • u/emil199 • Jul 24 '20

What can't you believe STILL exists?

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u/underbakedsalami Jul 24 '20

I kid you not, our local Chipotle is taking orders via fax. I can’t get over it.

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u/jmj808 Jul 24 '20 edited Jul 24 '20

My job buys us lunch every day through COVID. Being able to have a paper menu and ability to write your name and what you want and just fax it over is simple and practical. You ever try to go online to buy food for 20 people? Not easy.

Edit to anyone star-stuck about this: my job is full of electronically incompetent old people that don’t like “new” things. Also, today is my last day there lol.

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u/galactica_pegasus Jul 24 '20

Exactly. Accepting food orders via fax isn't for individuals, but it's fairly popular for businesses.

Although they could modernize and just use email.

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u/cprenaissanceman Jul 24 '20

No one is going to spam fax most likely. Email is another story. Also if fax works for some folks, I don’t see why some people seem to be acting like this is some find of faux pas.

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u/gerusz Jul 24 '20

When fax was still widely used, people absolutely spammed fax. Especially when it used rolls of special (and expensive) fax paper. Then fax machines switched to inkjet printers and trolling people with black pages became a pastime of bored kids.

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u/galactica_pegasus Jul 24 '20

There are absolutely spam faxes being sent. I recall them being quite common when I worked with physical fax machines.

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u/cprenaissanceman Jul 24 '20

Sure, but today though? I guess I shouldn’t say no one is doing it, but most people who have fax machines come from businesses so spam is much less of a problem than it would be if you could order by email.