As is the case in the UK and many other places, many companies forbid their staff to even handle the card these days.

Last week in Austin a server took my card away for swiping and didn't return for 8 minutes, and was not visible for most of that time. I will be watching that card very closely. The last card fraud I had was in San Francisco and was believed (but not proven) to be a server cloning the card details whilst out of sight. The transactions from the stolen card details appeared 6 weeks after my trip, and were picked up by the card issuer within 1 day and only $30 spent on low value transactions, and then a declined transaction of $220 so they didn't get away with much.