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That’s insane. Here in Canada the waiter/waitress brings a portable pos terminal to the table and you pay through that. I’d be incredibly uncomfortable if they
by justsid 2y ago
That’s insane. Here in Canada the waiter/waitress brings a portable pos terminal to the table and you pay through that. I’d be incredibly uncomfortable if they ran away with my credit card.
- JoeAltmaier 2y agoWe had that locally. They're abandoning it, citywide. Nobody liked it, it was cumbersome and invasive, it involved your credit card anyway but was a worse experience for everybody.
- justsid 2y agoHow is that a worse experience? I don’t have to mess around the bill to add a tip, I just punch it into the machine and then tap my card or phone. It also makes it super easy to split a bill if you are in a group.
- cal85 2y agoYou don’t mind the waiter/waitress standing over you while you decide how much to tip them?
- shiroiushi 2y agoThe problem here is having a tip in the first place. In civilized countries, there is no tipping: the price advertised is the price you pay.
- JoeAltmaier 2y agoThey have to carry it around. They leave it in the back, on the counter, whatever and have to go get it. They want you to hurry, they only have one of them, they have a lot of customers. You are interrupted to pay at their convenience, not when it's convenient for you. You have to fool with some gadget with a terrible interface when you'd rather be chatting with your sweetie. It's more awkward to leave a tip in cash (you tip zero on the device while they're watching). It was a terrible idea.
- bongodongobob 2y agoWhy is that insane? I think a more appropriate description would be "perfectly normal".
- justsid 2y agoBecause normally you aren’t supposed to just let strangers wander off with your credit cards.
- bongodongobob 2y agoI offer up 40 years of my life as a counter example. Maybe it's a bit city thing, idk, but this is not the norm where I'm from. You get the bill, put your card in it, they take it and run it, bring it back, and you sign the receipt.
- shiroiushi 2y agoRight, and while they're away, they take a photo of both sides of your card and then sell that to someone, who uses it for credit-card fraud.
- bongodongobob 2y agoHas never happened to me or anyone I know. And if it did, it's easy to prove it wasn't you and charge it back.
- shiroiushi 2y agoI guess it seems normal, just like in your country it probably seems "perfectly normal" to have people walking around with deadly weapons.
- voltaireodactyl 2y agoI’d hardly characterize it as “perfectly normal”, although it is definitely a frustrating issue that provokes a great deal of controversy domestically (and seems to induce strangely aggressive statements from a great many folks commenting from countries heavily reliant on American arms for protection from their regional neighbors). I can understand it being hard to reckon with when one’s primary understanding of government stems from a familiarity with countries founded in accordance with the desires of a handful of pre-existing, regional groups (as opposed to a country founded with explicit mechanisms by which new groups can achieve representation).