Originally Posted by Majuki

I found that restaurants and taxis (combining data points from trips to Vancouver in June 2017, November 2017, and most recently September 2018) don't like contactless payments. I've been told the reason is because a tap will bypass the opportunity to enter a gratuity, which did happen one time in a taxi during the June 2017 trip, but I haven't found this to be universal. However, on this trip, every offer to pay via tap at a sit down restaurant (and the above taxi ride) was rejected. I saw no DCC in Victoria in June 2018 with Mrs. Majuki, but we didn't have too many non-tap card transactions (only the Empress Hotel, Butchart Gardens, and Hertz) to compare.