CharlesLC

uphill said:

adamski said:

In Canada they bring the terminal to you, about 99% of the time in my experience.

Why would anyone ever let the waiter take a credit card to their register? This leaves the opportunity for the waiter to write down the card number, expiry date and three-digit security code, and then rush home at the end of the shift and try charging thousands of dollars on an internet shopping site. It happened to me in Florida last year. If a restaurant does not bring the terminal to the table, I always accompany the waiter to the register, Apple Pay or not. Never let a credit card be handled by anyone else!

Interesting comment. 

Come and think of it, we here in HK have been : 

- we ask for the bill
- waiter come to my table with the bill
- we drop him the credit card and he goes to the cashier with the card while we are still chatting in our table
- he comes back with the receipt asking us to sign our signature on it
- he passes back the card with a copy of the receipt (the carbon-copy with our signature) straight away

for God know how many years!!!!

may be it is the norm here and we never question this practice. 

Let me  try n buy something with my wife's CC receipt and see if it works.....of course I don't know her CC pins...