The Fast Food Thread
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Joeboo
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Every hipster-centric bar, coffee shop, and restaurant in town that has opened in the last few years does this.
I don't like it at all. They can't print you out a receipt either, you have to enter your email address and they email it to you.
Fuck off, I don't want to give you my email address, and I definitely don't want to take the time to type it out on your shitty touch screen keyboard.
Noodleface
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Oh yeah that was the main point I forgot to make. No receipt unless I signed up, FUCK THAT SHIT.
I was avoiding saying the word hipster because Tenks would come parachuting in here wearing his raw denim, sipping a craft peach IPA infused with the farts of elves, twirling his moustache and squinting through his monocle at me.
Alex
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The email address thing is Square - not the establishment charging your card. I have never received an email from Square other than my receipts. It's not some shady opt-in thing. It's really convenient for all the business travel I do. Email me my receipt and I can submit my expenses with that. No need for keeping all these shitty paper receipts.
It sounds like you guys just hate technology.
It sounds like you guys just hate technology.
Joeboo
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I do think slightly less of a place when it's nothing but Apple tablets that they are using.
Borzak
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I've seen the tabet thing. Never ran into not being to get a receipt, but I've never asked for one on a $20 meal either.
I hate the sign your name shit with your finger. I'm sure it looks a lot like an illeterate person put an X there is all.
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I've seen people use tablets as a part of an integrated system that printed menus and offered paper receipts to sign. Just because they're using tablets doesn't mean shit.
If they're using tablets and don't have a system that can produce paper receipts, they're a cheap, shitty business that isn't investing their money well. So, in some ways, yes. A tablet is not as good as a cash register if you're using it as a cash register in a restaurant situation.
If they're using tablets and don't have a system that can produce paper receipts, they're a cheap, shitty business that isn't investing their money well. So, in some ways, yes. A tablet is not as good as a cash register if you're using it as a cash register in a restaurant situation.
Fifey
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Or they are just trying to not waste pointless dollars on overhead. Most of the restaurants in Portland that are small/food carts use square. I can only think of the Hedburg joke about the receipt for a donut.
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Some don't let me pay with pop bottles, either.
Say what you will. Some folks are on business, get a cheap meal, need a receipt. Don't want to give an email address. I don't care if you think it old fashioned, or what. Be prepared to provide a receipt if you are selling someone anything. At least get the damned bluetooth app that you can transfer a pdf receipt to someone's device. It's a free app, for craps sake.
Say what you will. Some folks are on business, get a cheap meal, need a receipt. Don't want to give an email address. I don't care if you think it old fashioned, or what. Be prepared to provide a receipt if you are selling someone anything. At least get the damned bluetooth app that you can transfer a pdf receipt to someone's device. It's a free app, for craps sake.
Fifey
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No man, NSA scans your emails looking for receipts for Halal meats, can't do that over bluetooth.
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Frankly, I don't care either way. I think it's a basic premise in life: sell something, provide a receipt. With the possible exception of hookers.
chaos
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I'd rather have the emailed receipt than some shitty piece of paper that I will lose in 10 minutes anyway. Email is forevs, bro.
Cupcake shop here that makes fucking retarded good cupcakes, they use Square, shit is crazy convenient. I pick out my shit, they hand it to me, swipe my card, and I'm out. Receipt emailed to me, if I have a problem with a cupcake or whatever then I can always call it up, from anywhere. Home Depot and Lowes have it as an option, frankly I think it should be the default. If you don't have an email by now to use for this shit, then we should grind your bones to make my bread. Or terrible tasting bread-like substance.
Cupcake shop here that makes fucking retarded good cupcakes, they use Square, shit is crazy convenient. I pick out my shit, they hand it to me, swipe my card, and I'm out. Receipt emailed to me, if I have a problem with a cupcake or whatever then I can always call it up, from anywhere. Home Depot and Lowes have it as an option, frankly I think it should be the default. If you don't have an email by now to use for this shit, then we should grind your bones to make my bread. Or terrible tasting bread-like substance.
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The thing that pisses me off about the whole tablet thing and signing with my finger is I don't know whos gross ass hands and fingers have been all over that tablet. I was at a Cupcake place the other day and my wife and I got one and they wanted me to sign it. I asked if they had hand sanitizer and the lady looked at me like I was retarded. She couldn't grasp that in a place designed to buy finger food and eat it on site why I wouldn't want to smear my fingers all over a germ infested surface.
Borzak
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You could pay cash and think of all the germs you get off a $1 bill that's been used to snort coke and been on a g-string of the nastiest stripper on the planet.
Not to mention if you hamd over your credit card at a table and the waitress runs off with it no telling what she did with it before you stuck it back in your wallet.
If you paid the old fashioned way no telling where the pen was before she handed it to you so you could sign.
Just giving you things to think about lol.
Not to mention if you hamd over your credit card at a table and the waitress runs off with it no telling what she did with it before you stuck it back in your wallet.
If you paid the old fashioned way no telling where the pen was before she handed it to you so you could sign.
Just giving you things to think about lol.
Tarrant
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Who carries cash on them? Fuck, do you still write checks too? Also everything you just described are things you do after a meal, not before you eat it.
Normally I wouldn't give a fuck but the tablet screen was bumpy there was so much shit caked to it. It looked like a 3 year old ate peanutbutter strait from the jar and then played on the damn thing.
If you're okay with rubbing your finger on that and then eating food then more power to you, I personally find it disgusting.
Normally I wouldn't give a fuck but the tablet screen was bumpy there was so much shit caked to it. It looked like a 3 year old ate peanutbutter strait from the jar and then played on the damn thing.
If you're okay with rubbing your finger on that and then eating food then more power to you, I personally find it disgusting.