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Subject: Re: Samsung Wallet vs Google Pay
Date: Sun, 5 May 2024 11:12:16 +0200
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On 05.05.24 10:56, Jim the Geordie wrote:
> 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.

On the Continent the payment process in a restaurant never requires to
give away the credit or the debit card. Not even be touched by a service
person. Just  hold it to the mobil terminal without any direct contact
or use the internal (chip) card reader with bigger amounts.


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