Originally Posted by
Majuki
For drive thrus, I prefer that the cashier handles the card. During most of 2020 and 2021, the common case was that the cashier would meet me halfway with the payment terminal. I found it always awkward. The only place that does this currently around here is Chick-fil-A, but they take orders and payment from roaming employees in the drive thru lanes in advance of getting to the counter. The terminals do support contactless payments.
I think it was more awkward than it could have been because of our insistence on using terminals like the MX915. Some places have switched to smaller devices, though, which helped.
That said, given that PIN isn't really a thing here, I'm not sure it's
that bad to have the cashier run physical cards in the drive thru. Not ideal, of course, but it's probably not harmful either. Especially once the magstripe finally goes away later this decade.
Originally Posted by
Hawaiian717
Apple Pay with Face ID with a mask on is a pain. Double tap side button to wake up phone into Apple Pay, tap on screen button to enter passcode, enter device passcode, double tap side button to pay with selected card, tap on screen button to enter passcode, enter device passcode, tap phone. Touch ID would be better (wearing surgical gloves in public didn’t seem to last long, but if people are still doing it, then it would be a hassle too), or using a watch.
Tapping a card becomes much less hassle.
Fair enough. Hopefully the latest update will improve things for those wearing masks. Or maybe they'll finally adopt underscreen fingerprint readers?
