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Probably: Wait for the check. Get the check, attach a credit card to it. Wait for the wait staff to return and get it. Wait for the wait staff to run the ca

Probably: Wait for the check. Get the check, attach a credit card to it. Wait for the wait staff to return and get it. Wait for the wait staff to run the card. Wait for the wait staff to return with your card. Do some math for a tip, sign the receipt. It’s also mildly concerning to leave your bare credit card (with pretty much everything they need to commit fraud with it) with a complete stranger.

chrisseaton 6y ago
Do you not have contactless, or chip-and-pin? The waiter or waitress turns up with the bill, I glance at it, I tap my card, or if it's a larger sum insert it and type in my PIN. Worst case scenario it's 30s. I'm pretty sure that your agreement with your card company includes that you must not let anyone else touch the card, let alone take it away.
- steveklabnik 6y ago
  It's still very new here, and most places just don't do it the way that you all do elsewhere in the world. I think I got my first one last year? And I bank with one of the biggest banks. Even then, we have just the chip, no PIN. (There is a PIN for like, ATM transactions, but if I go to Europe, I still have to sign, even if they do the contactless thing. Folks (reasonably) almost never expect it, and have to go find a pen...)
- falcolas 6y ago
  A very, very few places offer it at the table. Most places I’ve been to in the last few years do not offer it. Even at the counter, as a sibling mentions, a few places offer a chip, but no pin. Quite a few will still only have swipe readers.
- ReactiveJelly 6y ago
  Chips only came to America recently, and mobile card readers are kind of a novelty. The last few times I went to a sit-down restaurant (Before March, when the hammer fell), it was still done that way. I only got a completely contactless card... last month. October.
- pessimizer 6y ago
  > I'm pretty sure that your agreement with your card company includes that you must not let anyone else touch the card, let alone take it away. In the US this is the standard way restaurants work, and it is very strange when they do not work this way. At the low end there will sometimes be a cashier who accepts payment.
Lammy 6y ago
> It’s also mildly concerning to leave your bare credit card (with pretty much everything they need to commit fraud with it) with a complete stranger. This actually happened to me at the Santa Clara Convention Center bar of all places.

chrisseaton 6y ago

Do you not have contactless, or chip-and-pin? The waiter or waitress turns up with the bill, I glance at it, I tap my card, or if it's a larger sum insert it and type in my PIN. Worst case scenario it's 30s. I'm pretty sure that your agreement with your card company includes that you must not let anyone else touch the card, let alone take it away.

steveklabnik 6y ago
It's still very new here, and most places just don't do it the way that you all do elsewhere in the world. I think I got my first one last year? And I bank with one of the biggest banks. Even then, we have just the chip, no PIN. (There is a PIN for like, ATM transactions, but if I go to Europe, I still have to sign, even if they do the contactless thing. Folks (reasonably) almost never expect it, and have to go find a pen...)
falcolas 6y ago
A very, very few places offer it at the table. Most places I’ve been to in the last few years do not offer it. Even at the counter, as a sibling mentions, a few places offer a chip, but no pin. Quite a few will still only have swipe readers.
ReactiveJelly 6y ago
Chips only came to America recently, and mobile card readers are kind of a novelty. The last few times I went to a sit-down restaurant (Before March, when the hammer fell), it was still done that way. I only got a completely contactless card... last month. October.
pessimizer 6y ago
> I'm pretty sure that your agreement with your card company includes that you must not let anyone else touch the card, let alone take it away. In the US this is the standard way restaurants work, and it is very strange when they do not work this way. At the low end there will sometimes be a cashier who accepts payment.

Lammy 6y ago

> It’s also mildly concerning to leave your bare credit card (with pretty much everything they need to commit fraud with it) with a complete stranger. This actually happened to me at the Santa Clara Convention Center bar of all places.