Speaker 1: I'm rich Tamiro and this is rich on Tech Daily.
Speaker 1: If you go to a restaurant overseas, chances are you're
Speaker 1: gonna pay for your tab right from your table. The
Speaker 1: waiter will come over with some sort of wireless device,
Speaker 1: they'll dip your card and you'll be on your way,
Speaker 1: no tipping necessary. Now Here in the US, the process
Speaker 1: is a little different. Usually, you wait until the end
Speaker 1: of your meal, you wait for your bill, then you
Speaker 1: hand over your credit card. It disappears for a while,
Speaker 1: and finally you get your receipt, you sign it, and
Speaker 1: you're off. Well, now we're seeing a trend of more
Speaker 1: and more restaurants embracing pay at the table technology. Now,
Speaker 1: I visited one of these restaurants in downtown Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: It's called seventy one Above. This place is seventy one
Speaker 1: floors above the street and it has amazing views. But
Speaker 1: they're also using this cool new table top payment system
Speaker 1: called table safe Rail. And it looks like your typical
Speaker 1: check presenter, but when you open it up, there's a
Speaker 1: small screen inside and it's kind of like a little tablet,
Speaker 1: and it lets you see your bill, of course, but
Speaker 1: you can do some really cool thing. You can split
Speaker 1: up your bill in various ways. So if you just
Speaker 1: want to divide it by two couples or four couples evenly,
Speaker 1: you can do that. Or if you said, hey, you
Speaker 1: know what, I just met my friends for a drink.
Speaker 1: I just got a salad, so I'm just going to
Speaker 1: pay for that portion, you can split it up like
Speaker 1: that as well. And you don't need your waiter's permission
Speaker 1: or help or handing over a bunch of credit cards.
Speaker 1: You can do it all at your own table. I
Speaker 1: love this technology. You can swipe your card, you can
Speaker 1: dip your cards, you can use the chip, or in
Speaker 1: the future, very soon you'll be able to use Apple
Speaker 1: pay in all the various mobile payment systems. So again,
Speaker 1: this is a lot more secure than handing over your
Speaker 1: credit card or debit card. In fact, when I go
Speaker 1: to a restaurant, I'm usually hesitant to use my debit
Speaker 1: card because you know, you don't see where your card
Speaker 1: goes for five or ten minutes, and so that usually
Speaker 1: forces me to use my credit card, which is a
Speaker 1: little bit more safe. So this is really cool. We've
Speaker 1: seen a lot of other restaurants do this as well. Now,
Speaker 1: if you think about it. The chains are where you're
Speaker 1: seeing this. The most seventy one above is an independent restaurant,
Speaker 1: but it costs a lot of money to implement this
Speaker 1: new technology, so we're seeing it take off at the
Speaker 1: chains a lot faster. So folks have tweeted me, and
Speaker 1: of course I've seen it at Chili's myself, but other
Speaker 1: people have seen it at Red Robin, Tgi Fridays out Back, BJ's,
Speaker 1: and a whole bunch of other places. So what do
Speaker 1: you think? Do you love or you hate this technology?
Speaker 1: Some folks on my Facebook page said it's way too impersonal.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm paying for my meal out. I think
Speaker 1: they should do the work. But I love it because
Speaker 1: I'm in control, and especially when it comes to splitting
Speaker 1: up the bill. That's really nice because a lot of
Speaker 1: times you have to tell the waiter, hey, can you
Speaker 1: put twenty five on this card and thirty five on
Speaker 1: this card? And they have to remember which card is
Speaker 1: which and who it belongs to. So this takes a
Speaker 1: lot of the guesswork out of the equation. So check
Speaker 1: it out on my Facebook page, Facebook dot com slash
Speaker 1: rich on tech. Let me know what you think of
Speaker 1: these new pay at the table Technologies. Thanks so much
Speaker 1: for listening. I'm Rich Damiro I'll talk to you real soon.