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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They do many times, but the reason restaurants in the United States never got into the habit of doing that. Is that for decades you couldn’t move the credit card machine. Joe, we have this expectation that at the end of a meal your check will come and then you will lay your credit card down and then the server will take it away and then they will bring it back. That is the order of events.
There are plenty of places now that bring the machine to your table, but they tend to be smaller or trendier places because the idea of taking your car away and bringing it back is still thought of as part of the fine dining experience. Because it was for decades.
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