Why do restaurants in the US take your credit card, instead of simply bringing the machine to the table for payment?

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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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While we’re at it, why do they not have e-transfers in the states? It’s such a foreign concept to me that people use apps like Cashapp and Venmo. In Canada (and I assume most other developed countries) we can just directly transfer money to whomever we want through our bank apps.

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