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It's so strange that this is even a thing
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Yeah, that's my immediate thought as well. Attention is huge.
So how are you paying?
Card? Cash? I can't think of the last time I paid with my phone at a sit-down restaurant.
What do you mean?
You pay for your meal via contactless right? So you have to get your phone out.
No one saying they get your phone out in the meal. It's just if you get your phone out at any point on a first date, they'll see it right?
Excuse me while I take the expandable memory out of the expandable memory slot on my phone with decent features.
At a sit-down place, you normally give your card to the waitstaff once they bring the check/receipt. There's no tap-to-pay terminal they bring to you.
That's not how it works everywhere in the world. Most places you just pay with your phone or your card.
My brother in Christ you sound like you've never been to a restaurant with waiters. And regardless you also literally just said "Most places you just pay with your phone or your card" after asking how he would pay if he couldn't use his phone. You literally already know the answer to your own question.
I've been plenty of restaurants just not the same restaurants you've been to honestly it's like you don't think that cultures change across the world.
https://lemmy.world/comment/6055708
This you? The guy who thought you could only pay for a bill at a restaurant via contactless? Also, the whole "different cultures do things differently" thing cuts both ways. You were assuming you couldn't pay for a bill with anything other than your phone because that's (maybe) how it is where you live, and when other people said it was common for their experiences to be able to just hand a credit card over to a waiter, you said "well, it's different where I live." Yeah, and it's different where the people you were replying to live, too. And where they live, they hand a credit card to a waiter. But you never considered that until someone corrected you. So maybe you should consider your own cultural assumptions before calling other people out on theirs.
You should not ever let someone take your bank card out of your sight! Where are you where this is accepted!?
That’s the norm in all of the US
Mental, is there a lot of fraud and identity theft?
I've seen Americans discussing paper shredders as standard appliances everyone has because they are afraid of identity theft.
Not a lot of fraud or identity theft from the waiter taking your card to charge your meal, no.
Probably there are some rogue waiters who try to use a customer’s card to buy personal things for themselves, but I’ve never heard of it happening to anyone I know personally
Yeah, it's not great if you think about it, but it's standard. I'm not here to be a prescriptivist; I'm just describing my experience (and it's a common one in the US of A).
Uh...I pay for stuff with the little plastic card in my wallet, or the greenish pieces of strangely stiff paper.
I haven't ever set up any kind of payment stuff on my phone and I've never had any issue paying for anything.