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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Early adopter issue. The US reached near-universal cc acceptance earlier, but the cost of that was doing it with an older system (both human systems and computers systems). And now that newer options are available… there just isn’t enough pressure to update just to update.
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