Originally Posted by
Majuki
You said that Red Lobster and Olive Garden used to pull the DCC game but don't seem to anymore? When they did do this, did your receipts already come out in GBP or was it the HKG style of "enter tip in TXN currency" variety of receipt?
It would say something like "Thank you for allowing First Data (I think) to convert your USD XXX transactions into XXXX GBP at the conversion rate of XXXX". You never had any choice in the matter and when I spoke to staff they seemed as clueless as I was and didn't seem to think the transaction had been done any differently to a US card. I just gave up in the end and usually paid by Amex and occasionally Diners Club (As transactions have a habit of getting lost and never making it onto my UK Diners Club account, especially in the early days of the Discover/Diners network merge).