Most restaurants in the US now bring payment terminals to the table or you go to the register to pay. It’s pretty rare for them to need to take it away anymore. Perhaps in a high end restaurant? I wouldn’t know.
Most retail businesses have switched to contact-enabled registers. Not everyone knows you can do that, though. The big chains grocery stores have also finally adopted NFC payments. Most of the remaining retail holdouts are some big chains like Home Depot and Walmart who seems to have delayed for their own reasons. With Walmart, they are trying to get people to pay using their QR-based payment app.
The other hold out is gas stations who seems stuck in the 90’s techwise. Even farmer’s markets have modern tech but Shell Gas can’t afford to update their payment terminal?
Exactly, high end restaurants are the ones still taking cards away 90s style. But they’re not that few: Landry’s group, for example, owns several chains with thousands of restaurants across the US and not a single one of their restaurants has pay at the table. Other examples are Ruth Chris or The Capital Grille just to name some. These are big companies with lots of restaurants from coast to coast, they charge very high prices ($40-50 per dish) and yet they don’t want to invest a penny on moving past the 90s when it comes to payments.
