New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

contrast with waiter sliding the bill onto the table "thanks a lot"

otm

those machines pair perfectly w/canadian passive aggression btw

i prefer a machine to those assholes who order 10 drinks and then insist that everyone splits the bill equally

code on check can solve all these problems tho

everyone scans the code, selects the dishes they ate, and its over

prefer a machine to those assholes who order 10 drinks and then insist that everyone splits the bill equally

― Nhex, Tuesday, October 21, 2014 2:52 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

most bars don't serve machines yet
oh, but someday, they will

assholes already machines iirc

xp ohhh i didn't understand that about the QR code. ok that makes a lot of sense

an asshole eating machine, good for business, good for america

xp ohhh i didn't understand that about the QR code. ok that makes a lot of sense

― Nhex, Tuesday, October 21, 2014 3:00 PM (12 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

idk if thats how it works now but its not hard to imagine it will soon, i know there are apps that already do that

I just bought a mountain dew from the vending machine using my iphone

was working in a coworking space for a bit that had a self serve snack bar where i wld often buy diet cokes w my iphone

using this app http://mycheckapp.com

everyone scans the code, selects the dishes they ate, and its over

― lag∞n, Tuesday, October 21, 2014 7:55 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sounds chill, everyone tapping at their phones for awhile to round it all off

that said i did not realize the part about QR codes, i guess that could be good

but it has nothing to do with NFC afaict

no that would just use the apple pay app, not the nfc thing.

its true it has nothing to do w nfc

the technologies dont matter tho

Honestly it's a lot more chill than "Okay, so you got the appetizers, and we didn't have drinks" or just having your boozehounds friends be like "So should we just split it evenly?"

sounds chill, everyone tapping at their phones for awhile to round it all off

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, October 21, 2014 4:00 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

says the advocate of people tapping at a far less user friendly device that requires the support of a waiter smdh so mad at u rite now

true but it's awesome when they bring that thing out, it's like you're living on battlestar galactica or something - "now be off with you"

lol

Getting the check/paying at restaurants is long overdue for some sort of technology upgrade. Around here, it can add 20 minutes to getting out of the damn place. You would think it would be in the restaurant's best interest to turn over customers quicker.

I really just want robot servers.

I probably posted this here or in another thread, but my brother when he was a little little kid had what I thought was an ingenious idea: a restaurant where the kitchen is on the lower level, and the middle of each table has a sort of electronic dumbwaiter elevator with an animatronic puppet server -- it takes your order then goes down to the kitchen and gets it, then at the end gives you the check and takes your money.

I've been to places where you order off an iPad

blade_runner.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/XEbPTqg.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/iVOq3D8.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/12I4lHw.png

hah nice

Stole that from another thread *cough*.

I've been to places where you order off an iPad

― 龜, Tuesday, October 21, 2014 4:42 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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― lag∞n, Tuesday, October 21, 2014 4:43 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

It was a hot pot place

So you'd put in how much raw meat or fish or veggies or w/e you wanted, big order small order

Beer etc.

You could order throughout the meal

Pretty tight tbh

you know all the food you ate was 3-D printed on spec, right

i am amazed that US still does the signature thing... it is the most useless ceremony... everyone knows it too. just bizarre

Having that monstrosity in the middle of your dining table = you might as well run into the woods and eat raw meat with your hands

guy with beard is thinking "goddamn life just drags on and on, there is no redemption"

i am amazed that US still does the signature thing... it is the most useless ceremony... everyone knows it too. just bizarre

― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, October 21, 2014 5:00 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

Yeah there are some places that won't do the sig if it's below like $50

The most terrible are the carryout places that make you sign

And they have a place for the tip

But it's a carry out place

!!!!

My five-year-old always wants to push the buttons on the reader at the grocery store. I was about to let him sign the credit thing once, and the cashier said, "No! No, he can't do that!"

I was letting it go, but I did say, what, does anyone pay attention to how close the signatures match?

And she responded, No, of course they don't. But you've got beer on there and I could go to jail for selling to a five-year-old.

haw

I assume the one place it would ever come up would be in a fraud investigation, like maybe some guy makes lots of false fraud claims and they're like wait you signed for this. But the odds of it coming up seem low, probably vestigial of a time when it was more useful is my guess.

the signature thing is more about the lack of adoption for chip/pin than anything, pretty sure it's backpedaling from all the whiny businesses that don't want to upgrade their card reader from the 80s

lol tipping on carryout is def a situation for the tipping thread

cc chips are finally coming to america they cause of fraud prevention

anyway those portable EMV terminal things that are everywhere seem to all be made by Veriphone. Square's coming out with an EMV reader which could be a lot more chill than those things, and I expect that Apple Pay will sort of burst the logjam on new + clever NFC stuff in the US, since there will be like 40 million users of it a year from now.

good luck usa

i did a "wire transfer" tonight it was hilarious

so steampunk

Most of Europe is chip and pin

America is getting chips but it's mostly gonna be chip and sig

Cause I guess Americans are too lazy to remember two pins?