Path: ...!uucp.uio.no!npeer.as286.net!npeer-ng0.as286.net!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!newsfeed.bofh.team!paganini.bofh.team!not-for-mail From: Jim the Geordie Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: Samsung Wallet vs Google Pay Date: Sun, 5 May 2024 09:56:10 +0100 Organization: To protect and to server Message-ID: References: <1o9got62136hu$.dlg@v.nguard.lh> <1r4ud12ymj011.dlg@v.nguard.lh> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: paganini.bofh.team; logging-data="2807060"; posting-host="+XbyLv1SaxDwJ2fBrKZCbQ.user.paganini.bofh.team"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@bofh.team"; posting-account="9dIQLXBM7WM9KzA+yjdR4A"; User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/3.0.11 (GRC) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.3 Bytes: 3570 Lines: 45 In article <1r4ud12ymj011.dlg@v.nguard.lh>, V@nguard.LH says... > > Jim the Geordie wrote: > > > Where in the world are you that waiters don't have hand held card > > scanners. > > Do you really allow a waiter to wander out of your site with your > > debit/credit card? > > Haven't eaten out much, have you. The vast majority of restaurants I > visit bring you a padded wallet with the tab sheet inside. You put your > card in the wallet. The waiter comes back from there terminal with the > actual bill inside the wallet (2 copies: 1 for restaurant, 1 for your > copy). The bill has already been registered at their terminal, but you > still need to add a tip, and sign the bill. > > I'm talking about restaurants where you're sitting at tables, and a > waiter comes to the table. Not fast food joints where you walk up to > counter to place an order, and wait until the food shows up in a bag. I > haven't been to fast food joint in decades. I got sick afterward. Even > when traveling, I look for a restaurant than visit some drive-up crap > food joint. Might as well grab a stale sandwich and past-due milk at > the gas shop when refueling. > > Haven't you ever eaten at a non-fast food restaurant, or elsewhere than, > say, a buffet where you grab the food with a cash register is at the end > of the line to total up your picks? Some restaurants have waiters that > have readers to use your phone, but that is definitely not the norm > here. In fact, it happens so rarely that I'd be surprised the waiter > had a reader to use with my phone. I get seated, wait to order, order, > wait for the food, eat the food, the waiter brings over a wallet with > the summary tab when I'm done eating, I put the card in the wallet, they > pickup the wallet to ring up the sale at their terminal, and bring back > the bill for me to add a tip and to sign. > > Stop eating crap at the fast food or buffet joints. Start going to real > restaurants. Then you'll have experience as to which ones have waiters > with readers, and which have you give them a card. In my region, the > card is the norm method of payment. In fact, I could wave my phone all > over in the air, but no one brings a reader to my table. You are clearly not eating out in England. I am surprised that you have not had your card cloned by now. -- Jim the Geordie