In Canada, I haven’t seen a credit card taken by the waiter for payment since maybe the late 90s. However, the dozens of times that I’ve gone to a sit-down restaurant in the States, I have not once had a waiter bring the machine to the table. Having the machine brought over is much faster and convenient, and allows the customer to be sure of what is charged, so why hasn’t this caught on?
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As a Canadian what I take issue with is the usual order in which a CC payment is made at a US restaurant. Waiter takes your card and runs a pre-auth amount of the bill before tip. You get your card and bill. You add your tip and total it yourself, then leave with card and a copy of a receipt that doesn’t include the tip. I had a $3 tip charged as $30 without any way to dispute it. A second area where fraud happens
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