[LINK] It's 2030, and digital wallets have replaced every card in our purses and pockets

[Jan Whitaker]

On 25/09/2023 10:08 am, Jan Whitaker wrote:
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> I'm out for a dinner Wednesday night and the restaurant can't split 
> bills (or won't) for 18 people. In a different eatery, where we go 
> monthly, they manage just fine for over 30 people. So I had to tell 
> our members to bring cash Wednesday night so we can cover the cost of 
> the meal. The restaurant shifted the 'work' to the CUSTOMER. It's nuts! 

Update on my rant from a few weeks ago and this particular example.

What a strange evening. They took all of our orders on bits of paper, 
eventually, then brought them out over about a 30 minute period, then at 
the end as we were individually leaving, we gave the person who 
organised the evening cash to cover our portion to cover the bill.

3 days later, as I had left earlier than the rest of our group that 
night, I asked her how things went. She said, there wasn't a total so I 
just gave them all the cash. I didn't understand what she was saying, so 
I asked her to explain what "no total" meant. She said that they did not 
give her a total bill, just a list of all the things that were ordered 
and supplied. No explanation. I think my friend was just over it. Who 
knows if we paid too much, too little, or just right. The only thing we 
could figure out is that they couldn't deal with a party of 15 (several 
didn't come of our original party) and the manager was away. There were 
3 servers, all quite young looking, and someone else cooking in the 
kitchen. The food was excellent. Their accountants must curse them.

This was no little restaurant. It's quite well known in Beaconsfield and 
highly recommended. The food was fine, excellent starters.

It was weirdly extremely LOW tech!

Jan