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From: Jim the Geordie <jim@jimXscott.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Samsung Wallet vs Google Pay
Date: Sun, 5 May 2024 09:56:10 +0100
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In article <1r4ud12ymj011.dlg@v.nguard.lh>, V@nguard.LH says...
> 
> Jim the Geordie <jim@jimXscott.co.uk> 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