Re: Samsung Wallet vs Google Pay

VanguardLH <V@nguard.lh> wrote:

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.

  When in doubt - as you *should* have been -, don't act like an
obnoxious pompous twat.

     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.

  Note Jim's TLD. Unlike you, he doesn't live in the US, but in a
country where - like in most of the 'western' world - they have modern
payment systems. The waiter brings the payment 'terminal' - mostly a
small, phone-like, handheld device - to your table. And that payment
terminal handles cards, phones and (AFAIK) watches. Probably only in
some very posh restaurants it's still somewhat common to take your card
to their payment terminal.

  But indeed what you describe is common in the US, they take your card
to their payment terminal. Mind-boggling for us non-USAsians, but when
we're there, we just go with the flow. :-)

[More rather/very offensive assumptions deleted.]