Fast food employee uses customer card to pay bill before returning it

Della said:
I eat out with friends once a month and we all pay our own checks. That means the waitress takes our bills and our four individual cards in a four little folders and is gone for a while. I'm not going to follow her through the crowded restaurant to watch her. We'll just have to take our chances.
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Yes I'm with you on this - and I have my credit card app on my phone so I can see at any time what has been charged to it. easy enough to check before leaving restaraunt and challenge any discrepancies.
 

it is so stupid and traceable to pay a bill so specific to one person... not even a tiny piece of plausible deniability. the person is obviously quite a few cards short of a full deck.

this is why i dislike the trend to cashless......... because everyone anymore is treated as guilty until proven innocent in the case of the millions of food service / retail workers out there.
 
I've heard of this happening before. I keep my cards in aluminum foil, plus in an RFID protected pouch. Scammers can even scan your card when you're waiting on line (eg: at the supermarket. Granted if I pull out my card and give it to a restaurant employee (usually still in the foil), someone could scan it once he or she removes it or the employee could do like the one in the OP. Thankfully that never happened. But now with Google Pay (and other) "wallets" a person does not have to hand anyone their credit card. Also, some restaurants, like Olive Garden, have the payment mechanism right on the table. When we were there, we did the credit card transaction ourselves, but I tipped the waiter in cash.
 

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