• Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    It’s entered manually, usually at the end of the shift. It’s standard for most, if not all restaurants in the United States

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      16 days ago

      In Canada they just bring you the payment machine and it asks the percent you want to tip. There is a physical bill but its only used by the server to know what to enter really

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        16 days ago

        Same in most of the world. Sucks that these machines brought tipping to places it didn’t exist before. Used to be only shitty tourist trap restaurants asked for tips in Stockholm. Now all the machines do.

        Remember kids. Never tip, ever.

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        16 days ago

        That’s because everything needs a pin, if you pay cash this still works this way. USA only started using pins around covid time iirc and it’s still not universal.

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          15 days ago

          The PIN thing really confused me when I visited the US (right before Trump got in again). Like even the places that did support chip would just accept my payment without having me enter anything. First time I bought something I thought the machine glitched because I didn’t even realise a payment could be made without the PIN

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      It’s getting to be less common. A lot of newer/trendier places are giving their wait-staff tablets (which are also handling ordering, seating status, etc), or at least portable payment terminals.

      Some of the big established chains have kiosks at the table where you can order apps/drinks directly, pay, play games.

      I’ve also been to several places that’ll put a QR code on the receipt for payment. They may also have their menu online that you can get from a QR on the table. As an added bonus that usually means their online menu is actually kept up to date.