Originally Posted by
RTWRide
With the Federal government (supposedly) mandating that all their government-issued credit cards be Chip N PIN, would it not make this type of card more prevalent? Therefore forcing restaurants to switch to hand-held terminals, even for the occasional Chip N PIN customers?
Not sure about other types of government issued cards, but for travel cards, this shouldn't be much of an issue. Meal expenses are normally reimbursed directly to the traveller at a fixed "Meals & Incidental Expenses" rate, and aren't supposed to be charged to the travel card. So at least for restaurants, they aren't likely to see many government-issued Chip & PIN travel cards, since the traveller would normally be paying with cash or one of their own personal cards, which in the short term are more likely to be Chip & Signature.