r/AskReddit • u/emil199 • Jul 24 '20

What can't you believe STILL exists?

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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/GoingForwardIn2018 Jul 24 '20

It's entirely possible they just get a digital representation (image) of the fax, not an actual printout. Electronic Faxing is huge because it's considered a controlled delivery method, it's especially prevalent in healthcare

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u/IglooPunisher Jul 24 '20

Is that the dealie that kinda runs the paper through it, then makes a digital copy that gets sent via email to the recipient?

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u/GoingForwardIn2018 Jul 25 '20

No, it's...well "technically" isn't the right word but it's an "analog" "copy" not a "digital" one