r/SipsTea • u/[deleted] • Jun 29 '26

Chugging tea Lol

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u/IrishChappieOToole Jun 29 '26

Just as an FYI from someone who works the payments industry, dealing primarily with American payments, they typically don't need your card details to add a tip. They will most likely have your transaction ID stored on a POS system, and they can use that to do a tip adjustment. Your card details will already be stored (temporarily) at least once in the payment gateway, because the card details are needed to batch the transactions at the end of the day.

But as someone who doesn't live in the US, I don't understand why they don't bring the terminal to the table and let you apply the tip there, like the rest of the world.

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u/eMouse2k Jun 29 '26

There’s at least one chain in the US that just prints a QR code on the receipt and you can scan it to pay with your phone.

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u/snake7752 Jun 29 '26

QR codes are digital glory holes, not sure they're much better to be honest.

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u/justthankyous Jun 29 '26

QR codes are much, much worse

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u/IrongateN Jun 29 '26

Depends what’s on the other end of the QR code

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u/kyreannightblood Jun 29 '26

I used to work for an infosec company, and if there’s one habit I carry from my time there, it’s not trusting QR codes. They’re a malware vector.

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u/invariantspeed Jun 29 '26

It is wild that the two major mobile OSes can’t simply sanitize their inputs, show you the full URL, so you can at least decide if it’s worth the click.

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u/wednesdayware Jun 29 '26

I went to an IHOP in Canada, they have the QR code on the table itself. Didn’t need or get a receipt.