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Degenerate

Any wrote: »

Are you telling a girl who spent months working behind a bar that it's a myth?

Then you must have had only experience with different card terminal then ours...

Then your sh**ty set-up is the problem, and that's not the customer's fault. A decent set-up that uses a quality reader linked directly to the till is as quick as cash.

never-in-doubt

NickX wrote: »

Thankyou for these words of wisdom. I must be an idiot then despite earning around £3000 per annum from Credit Card usage.

I always pay for rounds of drinks on a Credit Card whenever possible. Its a great way to fill up a slow stooze card and nice to know your not actually going to have to pay for those drinks for up to 12 months (makes the beer taste even better :beer:)
If there is a problem with the card, then its not my problem and down to the pub and the card provider to sort it out. If they are understaffed again its not my problem.

Sometimes I even get cashback on a Credit Card from certain pubs

Totally agree (as usual) Nick and what is funny is that I too spend a lot on my cards in my local pub and they too, put through any sale amount I want and give me cash - thats the way around it, by putting through a sale for say £120 and they then cash up giving you difference from round to total in cash - jackpot for free mate! lol

My only critisism with this is I usually end up in some dodgy club spending a bomb wishing i'd not got cashback after all - lol (Sports Bar nr Liverpool Street, anyone? lol)

The only good thing is knowing I have a year to wait before repaying... :rotfl:

ILW wrote: »

Do you also cut all the little coupons out of newspapers and make the queue at the supermarket twice as long while you spread them all out and work out which one are applicable?

I do and you know why? Cos its my right and if the person behind me doesn't like it then they can swan off to another queue! But to be fair, I don't even check them I just hand them all over and ask for them all to be scanned....

Any

Degenerate wrote: »

Then your sh**ty set-up is the problem, and that's not the customer's fault. A decent set-up that uses a quality reader linked directly to the till is as quick as cash.

Nope, sorry, still don't agree.

You get cash, you go to till, press button, get out cash and return it and take another order straight away.

You see card - go to till, get the receipt, get a card machine, thumble around with inputing the amount etc etc, pass it onto customer, who thumbles around with PIN and confirm etc etc after he checked the amount, you wait for the receipt - twice and then you go back to the till to put it down...

I just see it from the other side of the bar. And that is my opinion.

I would also pay larger amounts by card, no problem. Especially in a stylish (overpriced) bar. I am not saying I wouldn't. But not in my local.

And why do you have to swear????

ILW

chattychappy wrote: »

The whole thing is pathetic - the English pub is so overrated in my opinion.

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They have lost most of their charm now they are not full of smoke.

Any

ILW wrote: »

They have lost most of their charm now they are not full of smoke.

Yeah, many of them smell like a pee now instead... :rotfl:

never-in-doubt

Any wrote: »

Yeah, many of them smell like a pee now instead... :rotfl:

to smell like 'a' pee would be nasty - suppose it could be worse and actually stink of pee! :rotfl::rotfl:

But I miss the old smoke - kinda like having a steak but no chips! I expect smoke when I go into a pub, if not i;d just go to the non smoking area! We lived this way for 100's of years so why change it - ahh forgot, cos yet again the government think we cannot do things for ourselves.....

Maybe next they'll bring in statute saying that all must be served within 68 seconds or a free beer is yours....

ILW

never-in-doubt wrote: »

Maybe next they'll bring in statute saying that all must be served within 68 seconds or a free beer is yours....

I would have thought you would have been in favour of something like that, going from some of your previous posts.

DrScotsman

Any wrote: »

Degenerate wrote: »

Then your sh**ty set-up is the problem, and that's not the customer's fault. A decent set-up that uses a quality reader linked directly to the till is as quick as cash.

Nope, sorry, still don't agree.

You get cash, you go to till, press button, get out cash and return it and take another order straight away.

You see card - go to till, get the receipt, get a card machine, thumble around with inputing the amount etc etc, pass it onto customer, who thumbles around with PIN and confirm etc etc after he checked the amount, you wait for the receipt - twice and then you go back to the till to put it down...

Degenerate is completely right, everything I've bolded is proof that your setup is the problem! You should have a quality card reader linked to the till.

I worked in a supermarket.
Cash: Press total button, customer hands over cash, enter the amount given and you give change and receipt.
Card: Press total button, tell customer to put card in machine (or if they hand it over put it in myself), they enter PIN, give ONE receipt (and don't put any in the till).

Cash takes pretty much the same time as card, and for cashiers slow at counting change card is quicker. And I am talking about small transactions on the kiosk similar to that of a pub.

I challenge you to tell me the limitations of this system working in a pub besides "drunk people can't remember their PIN"

ILW

DrScotsman wrote: »

I challenge you to tell me the limitations of this system working in a pub besides "drunk people can't remember their PIN"

You miss out on that feeling of a good night out when you find your pockets are full of soggy fivers and enough loose change to sink a battleship.

NickX

never-in-doubt wrote: »

My only critisism with this is I usually end up in some dodgy club spending a bomb wishing i'd not got cashback after all - lol (Sports Bar nr Liverpool Street, anyone? lol)

LOL I know what you mean, this can happen :rotfl:

I just have to remember, as a long term stoozer, the extra funds are for my stoozepot rather than my boozepot :beer: