If you do to a decent place they're not sticky and covered in grime. After all they're used and taken away before the food even arrives.

I go to a vegan restaurant with a 3 course 10,95€ meal deal and they have excellent menus.

lots of hole in the wall restaurants have great food for reasonable prices but not a lot of waitstaff to make sure every menu is pristine.

The prices aren’t sticky either.

You've never gotten a paper menu with stickers over the prices? Or those places that re-print the menus every week.