Tablets take waiting out of restaurants: E la Carte on the cover of SF Chronicle

Post by herval » Sun, Jan 15, 2012, 4:15 PM UTC

joezydeco wrote: post #49

herval wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not just europeans, but also japanese and all countries in south america (not sure about other asian countries and africa). Also, pin works for credit cards too, in these countries, not just debt Why do the banks need signatures in the US? Specially badly-drawn ones that don't even ressemble the actual signatures? (I can never sign properly in one of those POS machines from CVS, ever)

Signatures allegedly lower the fraud rate, or at least assist in proving fraud if a card is stolen. Some banks now offer the option to bypass signature capture at the tradeoff of a slightly higher merchant rate. Many quick-serve restaurants (Chipotle comes to mind) will take the hit in return for processing customers faster. Time is money. Given how badly I sign the UPS pad when picking up a delivery, I can't see the…

Post by mixmastamyk » Mon, Jan 16, 2012, 7:27 AM UTC

greggman wrote: post #48

This has all been done in Japan for 5 or 6 years now. There are plenty of Izakaya in Japan that you order from wireless color tablets. They have the entire menu in color with pictures of every item. They've been around since at least 2005. (Izakaya = the type of place Japanese people drink which is most easily described as booze and tapas)