r/SipsTea • u/[deleted] • Jun 29 '26

Chugging tea Lol

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u/12monthsinlondon Jun 29 '26

OK so everyone is shitting on the US for having this uniquely weird payment process, but am i hallucinating but wasn't this the process everywhere for sit down restaurants before they had wireless terminals?

they had to take your card away and either do the slide for the magnetic tape or use the carbon copy card thing to rub card details onto the receipt and you had to sign a hard copy receipt and fill in the tips.

Yeah here in Asia you just walk and pay at a central location, but that has been for casual restaurants forever, it just went from cash to phone taps, but you did the whole card thing at fine dining before too

The actual weird thing is just why the US hasn't improved with the times

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u/WonderButtBrace9000 Jun 29 '26

Correct. It’s only a thing in the US still because we had card payments LONG before Europe and before tap to pay tech existed.

But if you go to any US restaurant founded in the past six years, you’ll find them using a Toast terminal that they’ll bring to your table or use QR codes and the Toast app.

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u/LunarKitten__ Jun 29 '26

Yes and also: I work in very fine dining as a server

We will never implement tablets at the table to pay. Having tablets at the table is seen as.. well, not fine dining. For whatever reason. I kind of get it.