I went to a restaurant recently that asked me to pay my bill with the QR code on the tablet. Scanned it, and the first thing it did was ask for my phone number to verify my “account” by sending me a code.
The server didn’t understand that I wasn’t going to do that, and they needed to run my credit card like normal or I wasn’t paying.
Oh man. If I need to download an app to pay for a meal I’m never going back to that place again.
That’s why in some ways I don’t mind that my country still pays for mobile data, because I just don’t even bother at restaurants anymore “oh, I’ve run out of data, I can’t scan that, here’s my money”
Because of how severely covid lock downs hit our state, every single restaurant I’ve been to in the last 5 years has used a QR code to order and pay.
I have allergies, so this means I mostly just order black coffee when it’s QR only.
I’m not giving you all of my personal details for an overpriced $5 black coffee. The result is that I sit there with my friends, fiddling my thumbs, not buying anything.
